Top 100 Quotes About Storytellers
#1. As storytellers, you're always somehow creating history.
Cary Fukunaga
#2. You can curse the darkness, or you can dispel it.
A.D. Posey
#3. All writers, all storytellers, are imposing their own narrative on something.
Michael Kimmelman
#4. Accept nothing. Challenge everything.
A.D. Posey
#6. Storytellers seldom let facts get in the way of perpetuating a legend, although a few facts add seasoning and make the legend more believable.
John H. Alexander
#7. You will find the greatest happiness in letting yourself be.
A.D. Posey
#8. Don't look.
See.
Don't think.
Feel.
Don't hear.
Listen.
Pay attention
Miracles really do happen every day
A.D. Posey
#9. Each time, storytellers clothed the naked body of the myth in their own traditions, so that listeners could relate more easily to its deeper meaning.
Joan D. Vinge
#10. Energy will go into what you love, and what you love will grow. Go for a walk and watch it bloom.
A.D. Posey
#11. Asking storytellers to be genuine is like, asking a chain smoker to quit smoking . Habit of lying isn't easy to fix. Pretend as believing is like selling cigarettes. What else we could do, if we want them to be in our lives ...
Heshan Udunuwara
#12. I'm actually quite critical of the storytelling theme. I think all the storytellers are not storytellers.
Stefan Sagmeister
#13. Storytellers are powerful and we are all storytellers.
Tsara Shelton
#14. I'm Jewish, I can say it. We're storytellers. We were the moneylenders ... Therefore we tell great tales to get what we need. I love Jewish men. They make the best husbands.
Patti Stanger
#15. The corporate system dictates what gets made, and the movies are so bad because of the economic structure of Hollywood. The big business takeover of Hollywood is at fault rather than American storytellers - it's what keeps textured movies from getting made.
James Gray
#16. Presidents are always also storytellers, purveyors of useful national mythologies. And surprisingly enough, Richard Nixon, this awkward man who didn't even really like people, had not been so bad at this duty - at least in the first four years of his presidency.
Rick Perlstein
#20. Live whatever draws out the magic within.
A.D. Posey
#22. All directors are storytellers, so the motivation was to tell the story I wanted to tell. That's what I love.
Spike Lee
#24. All poets and story tellers alive today make a single brotherhood; they are engaged in a single work, picturing our human life. Whoever pictures life as he sees it, reassembles in his own way the details of existence which affect him deeply, and so creates a spiritual world of his own.
Haniel Long
#25. When your heart is open, your eyes see the beauty that is all around you.
A.D. Posey
#26. It's always more than just a story.
A.D. Posey
#27. I feel that we should try and understand how we as women storytellers have often fallen into the mode of telling stories in the ways in which traditionally men would. I often find that my points of view are expressed by male characters.
Danae Elon
#28. It's amazing what you can do when you get creative.
A.D. Posey
#29. Storytellers are the most powerful people on earth. They might not be the best paid-- but they are the most powerful. Storytellers have the power to move the human heart-- and there is no greater power on earth.
Laurie H. Hutzler
#30. Your life should reflect your heart.
A.D. Posey
#31. When should you show more than tell? Great writing is balanced! You do not want to be a show-all, or a tell-all. And remember we are storytellers. Balance is the key! And let your ear be the guide. Is it too heavy, or too light? Or is it just right?
Mark Donnelly
#32. Love is the key to everything. Love your life.
A.D. Posey
#33. There is no time for holding back.
A.D. Posey
#34. Indians are marvelous storytellers. In some ways, that oral tradition is stronger than the written tradition.
N. Scott Momaday
#36. Actors can be many things - vain, venal, self-serving, obnoxious, bullies - but all of the good ones are great storytellers. I wanted to watch what my actors were doing and how they were telling the story.
Paul Bettany
#37. True storytellers write not because they can but because they have to. There is something they want to say about the world that can only be said in a story.
John Freeman
#40. You can't undo the past, but you can remedy it by creating a better future.
A.D. Posey
#41. Public libraries are our great teachers and storytellers, and are a vital adjunct to our schools. In this day of standardized and homogenized education, a library offers individual and personalized learning opportunities second to none.
Julie Andrews
#42. I never thought about what I would write. I just come from such a big family of storytellers.
Molly Antopol
#43. Creativity is magic in the making.
A.D. Posey
#44. The more of those little light bulbs that can turn on the better. Eventually you'll have enough to light up a movie screen.
A.D. Posey
#45. When you face up to bad things in the past, the most important thing is not to allow them to happen today or in the future, and as storytellers, we must play our part in that.
Michelle Yeoh
#47. Take a deep breath. Inhale peace. Exhale happiness.
A.D. Posey
#48. She worries because she fears what the world might do to you, and because she doesn't know any successful tattooed butch storytellers with biceps and a brush cut. Yet.
Ivan E. Coyote
#49. Storytelling answers questions and solves mysteries.
A.D. Posey
#50. Good food warms the heart and feeds the soul.
A.D. Posey
#51. Who but the adolescent is free to have the adventures that most of us are looking for when we turn to storytellers to satisfy our hunger?
Orson Scott Card
#52. Novelist by day; screenwriter by night.
A.D. Posey
#53. Tonight is the night of telling our stories. You tell three and I four.
Avijeet Das
#56. Let your story breathe and be what it really is.
A.D. Posey
#57. Painters were also attorneys, happy storytellers of anecdote, psychologists, botanists, zoologists, archaeologists, engineers, but there were no creative painters.
Kazimir Malevich
#58. Storytellers ought not be too tame. They ought to be wild creatures who function adequately in society. They are best in disguise. If they lose all their wildness, they cannot give us the truest joys.
Ben Okri
#59. Only cowards leave words unspoken.
A.D. Posey
#60. At our most primitive we are storytellers and dancers.
Anne Lamott
#63. As a matter of fact - it'll probably ruin my movie career - but I think better storytellers are in television.
Jeffrey Dean Morgan
#64. I don't want to infantilize the actor; I want to empower the actor. Actors can be many things, but all of the really good ones are really great storytellers, and I'm interested in that. If you're not interested in that as a director then you better be Stanley Kurbrick.
Paul Bettany
#66. 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
#67. Reading was a huge part of my life as a child - we were a family of storytellers.
Sue Monk Kidd
#68. Have the courage to walk in truth, the strength to love always, and the integrity to never stray away from doing so.
A.D. Posey
#69. Fiction is entertaining. Nonfiction is epic.
A.D. Posey
#71. Surround yourself with those conducive to you being your highest self.
A.D. Posey
#73. Doubt: How can I know? Truth: How can you not?
A.D. Posey
#74. Although arguably, it's my job to dig deep whether I'm improvising or not. It's just their style. That's the way they feel like they get what they want. I mean, they're really good storytellers, so I love being in their hands.
Amanda Peet
#75. 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
#76. The only thing a closed book is good for is a table that wobbles. Be an open book.
A.D. Posey
#77. Screenwriting is like poker; in the end, you have to go all in.
A.D. Posey
#78. Sometimes you just have to be your own rockstar.
A.D. Posey
#79. 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
#80. 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
#81. 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
#82. Cry while writing it, and readers will cry while reading it.
A.D. Posey
#84. I began telling stories as a volunteer in my daughters' school. But I grew up hearing stories from Cuban and Southern storytellers, and I learned a great deal by just being quiet and listening.
Carmen Agra Deedy
#85. Everything that is old was once new.
A.D. Posey
#86. Don't wish the world demanded less of you. Rise up and exceed its standards.
A.D. Posey
#87. Writing in the dark is hard, but you have to light your own candle and do it anyway.
A.D. Posey
#88. We'd like to believe that efficient, useful, cost-effective products and services are the way to succeed. That hard work is its own reward. Most marketers carry around a worldview that describes themselves as innovators, not storytellers.
Seth Godin
#89. If you don't humiliate yourself, you don't live.
A.D. Posey
#90. Storytellers are the keepers - we are the time keepers, the continuity keepers. We are the people who tell us who we are, where we've come from, and maybe even where we're going.
Bryce Courtenay
#91. 'Paint only what you see,' his hero Millet had admonished.
'Imagination is a burden to a painter,' Auguste Renoir had told him. 'Painters are craftsmen, not storytellers. Paint what you see.'
Ah, but what they hadn't said, hadn't warned him about, was how much you could see.
Christopher Moore
#92. Live spiritually and you'll be fine.
A.D. Posey
#94. Don't we all look up at the same stars?
A.D. Posey
#95. All the geniuses and greats are really just nerds with experience.
A.D. Posey
#96. The more you focus on fun, the more fun you have.
A.D. Posey
#97. A good preview makes you can't wait to see the whole movie.
A.D. Posey
#98. Fact is just fiction with different storytellers
Abby Slovin
#99. Comedians are people who embarrass themselves in style.
A.D. Posey
#100. To be able to make up stories has been a great gift to me from my ancestors and from the storytellers who were so numerous at Laguna Pueblo when I was growing up. I learned to read as soon as I could because I wanted stories without having to depend on adults to tell or read stories to me.
Leslie Marmon Silko
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