Top 100 Quotes About Storytellers
#1. All writers, all storytellers, are imposing their own narrative on something.
Michael Kimmelman
#2. Because if we the storytellers don't do this, then the bad people will win.
Christiane Amanpour
#3. Presidents are also always storytellers, purveyors of useful national mythologies.
Rick Perlstein
#4. Cinema is far too rich and capable a medium to be merely left to the storytellers.
Peter Greenaway
#5. If the storytellers told it true, all stories would end in death.
George Pelecanos
#7. The Art of Elysium is a program I've volunteered with for close to ten years, and I work with Unicef and Young Storytellers. My passion is really working with children since they are the future.
Danielle Panabaker
#9. Rocks and minerals: the oldest storytellers.
A.D. Posey
#10. Our duty as storytellers is to bring people to the station. There each person will choose his or her own train ... But we must at least take them to the station ... to a point of departure.
Federico Fellini
#11. What kind of people would be able to rationalize better than other people? Better storytellers, right? Creative people, right? Because if you're creative, you find more ways to cheat and still yourself a story about why this is okay.
Dan Ariely
#12. Part of the work is determining through what instrument you are playing. Actors are physical, olympian storytellers and we should be able to create entire landscapes with nothing.
Ajay Naidu
#14. My parents were both storytellers. They always spoke with metaphorical richness.
Alice Walker
#15. A defeated nation is always explaining itself. That's why the best storytellers are always from vanquished nations.
Mark Richard
#16. I come from a big family of storytellers and, growing up, I liked hearing about the years before I was born.
Molly Antopol
#17. Storytellers are not priests who commune with an ethereal realm but artisans, like dumpling makers, if somewhat slower.
David Mitchell
#18. That's what we do, man, we're like storytellers. We tell you stories from the streets. Whether we did it before when we was young or we heard it from one of the homies telling us a tale of what he been through. It's all in having fun and creating a movie like vibe to tell a tale from the streets.
Kurupt
#19. Without our artists and storytellers, we have no history, and without history your future is unmoored -- we drift. It is art, never war, that carries culture forward.
Sharon E. McKay
#20. Storytellers continue their narratives late into the night to forestall death and to delay the inevitable moment when everyone must fall silent. Scheherazade's story is a desperate inversion of murder; it is the effort, throughout all those nights, to exclude death from the circle of existence.
Michel Foucault
#21. I was at the University of Miami, and I still had, like, a semester or so left. And through the film school, I found out that Al Gore was launching a new TV network; they were looking for passionate young storytellers to transform television, which was, like, ambiguous but magnificent-sounding.
Jason Silva
#22. Kids are so fiercely opinionated, that if they love the Harry Potter books and they go see the movie, they'll be the first to say, 'That was wrong! They didn't get that right!' They're storytellers themselves. They're critics. They're going to have the critical opinion.
Spike Jonze
#23. My first memory was of stories about the past - a past that, according to the storytellers, was superior in every way to the life then being lived. It didn't take me long, however, to understand that the present was all we had, for the past was gone, and nothing could be done about it.
Horton Foote
#24. I think our storytellers - our songwriters should be great storytellers, and they should be mountain climbers and explorers, because music is something that can cross all different borders.
Jason Mraz
#25. I love creating stories, dreaming up characters and breathing life into them. From several generations of Irish storytellers, I think that's what I was born to do.
Linda Conrad
#26. I believe that all brands will become storytellers, editors and publishers, all stores will become magazines, and all media companies will become stores. There will be too many of all of them. The strongest ones, the ones who offer the best customer experience, will survive.
Natalie Massenet
#27. We're all storytellers. We choose to tell ourselves the kind of tale we want to hear.
Danielle Ganek
#28. Television is god-damned amusement park. Television is a circus, a carnival, a traveling troupe of acrobats, storytellers, dancers, singers, jugglers, sideshow freaks, lion tamers and football players. We're in the boredom killing business.
Paddy Chayefsky
#29. The Ramayana has never been a tale of Ram's life. It is a tale of how Ram lived for others. By retelling his tale, storytellers hope to inspire themselves and others to live as Ram did.
Devdutt Pattanaik
#30. This is what we storytellers do. We restore order with imagination.
Tom Hanks
#31. As a child, I was fortunate enough to be close to family members who were - and still are - great storytellers. I was a gullible country boy from Rocky Mount, Virginia, and I believed every folktale they told me, no matter how fantastic.
Jesse L. Martin
#32. It's no coincidence that all the greatest rappers - whoever you put in your top five - I guarantee you they are great storytellers.
J. Cole
#33. Painters
and storytellers, including poets and playwrights and historians, they are the justices of the Supreme Court of Good and Evil, of which I am now a member, and to which you may belong someday!
Kurt Vonnegut
#34. I was a super-duper Tupac fan, and I realized later, when I became a huge Nas fan and a huge Eminem fan, I was drawn to the storytellers. They all told stories in different ways, but they were all like the best storytellers.
J. Cole
#35. Thousands of years ago, there were no writers; just storytellers. I would love to be a storyteller but I am just a writer. I don't appeal to the ears; I appeal to the mind.
King Samuel Benson
#36. We didn't have AC or Cable TV. We had shade trees and storytellers. This is where my writing comes from.
Jason E. Hodges
#37. Well, I think storytellers have always found murder a fascinating device.
Donna Tartt
#38. Comedy and horror are cousins; they're related. They both come from storytellers who want to specifically affect the audience and elicit specific reactions during the movie.
Jason Reitman
#39. Before we were born, a whole society of storytellers was already here. The storytellers who were here before us taught us how to be human.
Don Miguel Ruiz
#40. I sometimes wonder what those of us who are writers would become in a nonliterary culture - storytellers? Hermits?
Rebecca Solnit
#41. A people are as healthy and confident as the stories they tell themselves. Sick storytellers can make nations sick. Without stories we would go mad. Life would lose it's moorings or orientation ... Stories can conquer fear, you know. They can make the heart larger.
Ben Okri
#42. When you come from a family of storytellers, you're doomed. You just have to tell stories.
Patricia Polacco
#43. I believe that even today we can only tell a simple story without really interfering with gameplay. But in the future, I think it will almost be a requirement of all storytellers when they create games, how they can tell a more complex story without conflicting with the gameplay.
Hideo Kojima
#44. My dream is to work with people like Meryl Streep, Michael Fassbender, Christian Bale and Cate Blanchett. To me, those are true storytellers - genuine people who have stories to tell and make incredible films.
AJ Michalka
#45. Storytellers think they're writing for the audience. They're writing, in a way, to hurt the audience.
Chuck Wendig
#46. I was inspired by people like Joni Mitchell and Carole King and Stevie and "Storytellers." People that could really change the world with their lyric, no matter who sung the song, they had still been the source of that message. So that's what I really aim for.
Emeli Sande
#47. I come from a family of great readers and storytellers.
Katherine Dunn
#48. Women are storytellers, they are communicators. They'll go and sit around a table and talk about their first date, their first smoke, their first lipstick, whatever it is. Those rituals of life, marriages and death aren't part of the language of men.
Anita Roddick
#49. I think 'Overlord' has definitely benefited because I work with every single level designer, and working where we have space to tell the story. That's what it's all about - getting writers and storytellers involved in the team and being a back and forth process.
Rhianna Pratchett
#50. A society that has no respect, no regard for its bards, its historians, its storytellers, is a society in steep decline, a society that has lost its very soul and may never find its way.
Laurence Overmire
#51. The best teachers are the best storytellers.
Frank Smith
#52. Too bad for the storytellers. Too bad for the sense makers, the apologists, that nothing, then or ever, nothing was inevitable. It's just too bad.
Jincy Willett
#53. I come from a family of Russian immigrant Jews who were all big storytellers, who would get together, and one would try to top the others' stories, and stories would get bigger and bigger. And the lying aspect, the exaggeration, would get large.
Philip Schultz
#54. I started on the original comics from Stan Lee and all the artists and storytellers did from there, and I got to the graphic novel that Chris Clairmont did, which is the one Stryker comes from - 'God Loves, Man Kills', which is a brilliant story.
Josh Helman
#55. A gang of unpredictable ruffians by day who turned to enthralling storytellers after dark. I would sometimes join them, and listen for a great part of the night to some of the finest fairy tales and most romantic legends it has ever been my fortune to hear.
Russell S. Bonds
#56. blessed are the storytellers, because they can bridge oceans, marshal great forces, inspire and instruct, transcend all limits, transform hearts and minds. They can break down barriers and be the common thread for disparate humanities, reaching across distant borders.
Ron Perlman
#57. I realized how lucky I was to have been raised here in these southern woods among poachers and storytellers.
Tom Franklin
#58. Successful organizations and companies share the stage with their best storytellers. Brands are a collection of narratives. Unleash your best stories.
Carmine Gallo
#59. Because storytelling, and visual storytelling, was put in the hands of everybody, and we have all now become storytellers.
LeVar Burton
#61. Cosmology is among the oldest subjects to captivate our species. And it's no wonder. We're storytellers, and what could be more grand than the story of creation?
Brian Greene
#62. Storytellers, by the very act of telling, communicate a radical learning that changes lives and the world: telling stories is a universally accessible means through which people make meaning.
Chris Cavanaugh
#63. In its 400 years of existence, storytellers never evolved the book as a storytelling device.
Joe Sabia
#64. And meanwhile, the storytellers like me and Anderson, Silverberg ... we tell stories. People like them. They want to know how it comes out, they want to know what the ending is.
Jerry Pournelle
#65. For a while, the genre seemed to be just about sex and crime. Rappers are storytellers; the stories don't need to be true!
Lauryn Hill
#66. George Banks and all he stands for will be saved. Maybe not in life, but in imagination. Because that's what we storytellers do. We restore order with imagination. We instill hope again and again and again.
Walt Disney Company
#67. The storytelling tradition that you bring from the South, I don't know where it arose, but it's still there. You can't go to the feed store, or the country courthouse without running into storytellers.
Charles Kuralt
#68. If a nation loses its storytellers, it loses its childhood.
Peter Handke
#69. True buoyant leaders can never communicate in percentage points, or charts and figures. First and foremost, they must be storytellers, communicating with their hearts, not heads.
Kevin Allen
#70. A people that doesn't live at the center of the world, as defined and described by its poets and storytellers, is in a bad way. The center of the world is where you live fully, where you know how things are done, how things are done rightly, done well.
Ursula K. Le Guin
#71. Know, Goodwife, that Faerie is shaped by storytellers. Their fantasies, their dreams give my realm life. We were dying, all of us, from the smallest nixie to highborn sidhe, for want of a storyteller.
Eugie Foster
#72. I've always liked and appreciated storytellers like Garry Shandling and Bill Cosby - more long-form comedy. So starting in San Francisco, watching all these great comics - Patton Oswalt, Dave Chappelle - you get to see them a bunch, and you go, 'Wow, this is where I need to be.'
Al Madrigal
#73. People who actually tell stories, meaning people who write novels and make feature films, don't see themselves as storytellers.
Stefan Sagmeister
#74. We're all born storytellers. It's part of the species. But, more specifically, I suppose a particular combination of sensitivity and trauma made me a writer: an essential disquiet with reality, which required exploration through portrayal.
Nic Pizzolatto
#75. I like people who tell stories. I like storytellers. A lot of my songs are misconceived as being auto-biographical when they're not because I write in the first person.
Art Alexakis
#76. This unceasing interplay between experience and narrative is a uniquely human attribute. We are the storytellers, the ones who put life into words.
Christina Baldwin
#77. My interpretation of a strong director is someone who knows their story. That's what directors are, they're storytellers because they're directing where your focus is going to be as an audience.
Dennis Quaid
#78. No, I'm talking about the famine of stories and songs. They killed all the storytellers who tried to tell them about the Son of the Thundercloud. They killed hope.
Easterine Kire
#79. Being true to yourself involves showing and sharing emotion. The spirit that motivates most great storytellers is 'I want you to feel what I feel,' and the effective narrative is designed to make this happen. That's how the information is bound to the experience and rendered unforgettable.
Peter Guber
#80. Listen to great storytellers; slowly, you will learn about voice, timing, tension, structure, climax - all the things you need to tell stories that will capture the imagination of your audience.
Carmen Agra Deedy
#81. Biggie and Big Pun were the best storytellers of the '90s. I would get wrapped up in the narrative of what they were talking about.
Lin-Manuel Miranda
#82. I think the whole concept behind lyrics is you better mean what you say, or you should like, become a storyteller. I mean, there's a lot of bands who are just storytellers, and then there are bands who actually have something valid to say. And the bands who have valid points are few and far between.
Kirk Hammett
#83. All marketers are storytellers. Only the losers are liars.
Seth Godin
#84. Where do storytellers find the wisdom to discover their own stories? From no place more mysterious than their own hearts.
Marion Dane Bauer
#85. The future belongs to a different kind of person with a different kind of mind: artists, inventors, storytellers-creative and holistic 'right-brain' thinkers whose abilities mark the fault line between who gets ahead and who doesn't.
Daniel H. Pink
#86. I've always thought stand-up comedians were the oral storytellers of our time, because they know rhetoric, they know delivery, they know timing, they know all of these things that you can only learn by telling a story out loud and interacting with an audience.
Chuck Palahniuk
#87. I think all artists struggle to represent the geometry
of life in their own way, just like writers deal with
archetypes. There are only so many stories that you can
tell, but an infinite number of storytellers.
Henry Mosquera
#88. I like the fact that I'm from the South and that I have this rich history behind me. I come from a family of storytellers. They can't just tell you how someone went to the store. They have to tell you who they saw, what they were wearing, what they said, what they had in their grocery cart.
Kimberly Willis Holt
#89. All good storytellers are of necessity good writers - even if they may be poorly edited ones. Unfortunately, not all good writers are good storytellers.
Nupur Tustin
#90. All of my peers died of AIDS, and I have no one to celebrate my past or my journey, or to help me pass down stories to the next generation. We lost an entire generation of storytellers with HIV.
David Mixner
#91. Vince McMahon is one of the greatest storytellers of all time, but WWE's not striving for the kind of innovation it's capable of.
Gary Vaynerchuk
#92. In Ireland every place you visit and every person you meet has a story. And they love to tell you their stories. Everyone is interested in everything; in a land of storytellers, you will never be bored.
Maeve Binchy
#93. My mom worked as a pharmacist, but she is one of the best storytellers I know. My sister is a gospel and opera singer and my brother, who passed away, was a writer.
Tunde Adebimpe
#94. I think all Latino actors want to be storytellers first. I want to be an actor first, and then I want to be Latina.
Gina Rodriguez
#95. We understand ourselves through stories, by making stories out of our lives. Storytellers give people structure with which they can begin to look at their own lives and try to make sense of them.
Bill Harley
#96. Sometimes the boys from Propaganda will nose around for a feel-good story to play to the citizens over the loudspeakers, but we're story takers, not storytellers.
Adam Johnson
#97. A story must be exceptional enough to justify its telling. We storytellers are all ancient mariners, and none of us is justified in stopping wedding guests, unless he has something more unusual to relate than the ordinary experiences of every average man and woman.
Thomas Hardy
#98. To poison a nation, poison its stories. A demoralised nation tells demoralised stories to itself. Beware of the storytellers who are not fully conscious of the importance of their gifts, and who are irresponsible in the application of their art: they
Ben Okri
#99. When I reflect on my story I seem to exist only as the one who came, the one who witnessed, the one who longed to be gone: a being without substance, a ghost beside the true body of Cruso. Is that the fate of all storytellers?
J.M. Coetzee
#100. I think it's too fast to say that all sci-fi ultimately winds up having some place in science. On the other hand, imaginative minds working outside of science as storytellers certainly have come upon ideas that, with the passing decades, have either materialized of come close to materializing.
Brian Greene
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