Quotes About A Good Storyteller

#1. I'm not a good storyteller. I always think I'm going to get interrupted, or something's going to get edited. I think that comes from being in a large family, so you have to get your story in really quick or someone cuts you off.

Amy Sedaris

#2. Being a talented artist is good, it's nice, but it's not the most important thing. I think being a good storyteller, having a good idea, a good gag, is probably more important than being a great artist.

Bill Plympton

#3. A thrilling story can be dull if told badly, but even the most mundane event can be elevated into a tale of epic scale by a good storyteller.

Johnny Rich

#4. A good storyteller is a person with a good memory and hopes other people haven't.

Irvin S. Cobb

#5. I want to be seen as a good storyteller. I'm a manipulator as well.

Wilbur Smith

#6. A good storyteller never lets the facts get in the way.

Dave Allen

#7. He was a good storyteller, but he told the kind of stories that made children run away from the village and adults look for a length of rope and some soap.

Sorin Suciu

#8. Directing a film was something I was yearning to do. I always wanted to see if I had the capacity to be a good storyteller.

Kevin Spacey

#9. If you look at the least effective of the 'Twilight' movies, it was when they brought in an action-movie director instead of a director who was really a good storyteller. And you can tell the difference.

Mark Waters

#10. Lying in small doses makes a good storyteller great.

Bryan Way

#11. I think of myself in the oral tradition-as a troubadour, a village tale-teller,
the man in the shadows of the campfire. That's the way I'd like to be remembered-
as a storyteller. A good storyteller.

Louis L'Amour

#12. A good storyteller can hold everybody captive without the special effects of Hollywood.

Phil Keoghan

#13. A good storyteller minces words to entertain or inspire the audience. The politicians and religious leaders do much the same, but for a different purpose - to turn otherwise normal people to nutcases.

Vinko Vrbanic

#14. Master storytellers like Jeffrey Archer and Arthur Hailey use simple language. But they manage to grab the attention of the readers right from page one. I'll consider myself a good storyteller the day people believe it's OK to be late for work or postpone deadlines just to finish reading my book.

Ashwin Sanghi

#15. Fundamentally, whether directing in the theatre or a film, you have to be a good storyteller, regardless of the form. The thing I had to work hardest at was thinking in shots.

John Crowley

#16. I'm not a good storyteller - I much prefer to be with people who are chatty, to have the luxury of listening.

Conor McPherson

#17. I'm a good storyteller.

Sophie Marceau

#18. In a lot of ways, TV writing taught me how to be a good storyteller. I learned about dialogue, scenes, moving the plot forward.

Maria Semple

#19. A good story needs only a good storyteller.

Richard Bausch

#20. I see myself as a storyteller, I don't mind if the story is fact or fiction, if it's a good story I'd like to tell it.

Leanne Pooley

#21. To write a good song, an artist has to drawn from reality. There has to be some spark from realism that communicates a real feeling to someone else. You have to be real. Or you have to be a really good storyteller.

Daryl Hall

#22. But Tony was a storyteller, and he knew that if you looked at any narrative closely enough you could trace the unraveling back and back and back - right to the very beginning, if the story was good enough.

Nick Hornby

#23. Most of all, I love being a storyteller. And yes, I want to make a good living, but I'm not always driven by the best commercial sense.

Bruce Coville

#24. From early on there were two things that filled my life - music and storytelling, both of them provoked by my father. He was a jazz pianist and also a very good storyteller, an avid reader. He passed both those interests on to me.

Athol Fugard

#25. A true storyteller is really good at writing himself into a corner and then finding a way out of that corner

Michael Chabon

#26. You know what a storyteller is, don't you? It's a person that has a good memory who hopes other people don't.

Sandra Dallas

#27. I'm a very good storyteller; I have a lot of compassion for people. That's very useful for a novelist. A lot of novelists are snots. They're just mean people. I'm not a terribly skilled stylist, nor do I want to be. I want a lot of people to read one of my stories and go, 'That was pretty cool.'

James Patterson

#28. In documentary films, you're a storyteller using found objects. You still have to have a story arc and all the elements that make a good story. It really helped me mature as a storyteller.

Garth Stein

#29. I'm a storyteller, and I have really good material to work with: I've been studying magic and the occult since about 1983.

Deborah Harkness

#30. I'm a storyteller, not a prophet. I'm just interested in a good story.

David Eddings

#31. ~I am neither an author nor a writer. I am a storyteller with good grammar.~

Darke Conteur

#32. The success of the storytellers - we're only as good as what we can withhold from the audience. Aspects of surprise and letting things play out for the audience - it's so much a part of their enjoyment. It's one of the great things about working in the movies and being a great storyteller.

B. D. Wong

#33. He wrote as if he were the reader. It was also how he kept his writing from becoming too cute, which is to say, about him not the subject. Rook was a journalist but strove to be a storyteller, one who let his subjects speak for themselves and stayed out of their way as much as possible.

Richard Castle

#34. Writing is incidental to my primary objective, which is spinning a good yarn. I view myself as a storyteller more than a writer. The story - and hence the extensive research that goes into each one of my books - is much more important than the words that I use to narrate it.

Ashwin Sanghi

#35. When you're just starting out, and someone you think is a real storyteller says something good about you, that helps.

John Hawkes

#36. A storyteller makes us feel something. Makes us give a shit when we have no good reason to do so. Fun is not the last stop on the story train. The storyteller is master manipulator. The storyteller is cackling puppetmaster.

Chuck Wendig

#37. When you're a storyteller, part of the process of storytelling is the kind of communion you form with the audience to whom you're telling your story. If some segment of the audience doesn't like that story, it doesn't feel good.

Carlton Cuse