Storyteller Quotes

I'm still not sure I want to be a writer. I think of myself as a storyteller more. (Michael Morpurgo)
My father who in this case was an obsessive life-long storyteller, and by a very peculiar trick of my father's. My father would tell a very, very long story, and the punch line would be in Yiddish. View quote
Stephen Greenblatt
A storyteller makes up things to help other people; a liar makes up things to help himself. View quote
Daniel Wallace
That's the mark of a great storyteller, never to give away secrets in advance. View quote
Ian McDiarmid
The film itself involves a New York City radio storyteller, Gabriel Noone, who strikes up a friendship with one of his fans, an abused 14-year-old teenager who is suffering from AIDS, who does not have much longer to live. View quote
Armistead Maupin
I don't mind UFO's and ghost stories, it's just that I tend to give value to the storyteller rather than to the story itself. View quote
Robert Stack
I have grown into a Bestsellasaurus Rex - a big, stumbling book-beast that is loved when it shits money and hated when it tramples houses... I started out as a storyteller; along the way I became an economic force. View quote
Stephen King
The purpose of a storyteller is not to tell you how to think, but to give you questions to think upon. View quote
Brandon Sanderson
A good storyteller is a person with a good memory and hopes other people haven't. View quote
Irvin S. Cobb
Traveling-it leaves you speechless, then turns you into a storyteller. View quote
Ibn Battuta
Never trust a storyteller," he says. "We're all of us liars. (Matthew J. Kirby)
I've always been fascinated by the grassroots folktale level of a culture, and as a storyteller, I have to follow what seems to be leading me on. View quote
Robin McKinley
I think that one of the things you have to do to become a storyteller is spend a lot of time reading stories. View quote
Roy Conli
I'm a good storyteller. View quote
Sophie Marceau
I don't view myself as a political leftie. I view myself as a storyteller who is fair to both sides. View quote
Tim Robbins
Sometimes you have to go places with characters and emotions within yourself you don't want to do, but you have a duty to the story and as a storyteller to do it. View quote
Hugh Jackman
I'm a storyteller. I feel like the issue of discourse is an important one because there's a lot of political and ideological discourse that goes around, and we relate to that on an intellectual level. View quote
Ayad Akhtar
I'm looking for laughs, you know? If it take me to flip over a table, if I have to go physical comedy, I will do it. But whatever the joke needs at that particular time, is where I'm dedicated to. I'm not into beating somebody down and beating myself up. I don't do insults and things like that. I don't do it - I'm a storyteller. View quote
Bernie Mac
The son has always felt like he was a footnote in one of the stories the father tells. The father is an amazing storyteller and one of the tales that he tells is how he met his wife. View quote
Danny DeVito
It is an ancient need to be told stories. But the story needs a great storyteller. Thanks for all of it, Jo. View quote
Alan Rickman
Growing up with three brothers and three sisters, I was the storyteller of the family... what my mother called 'The Liar.' (James Rollins)
A storyteller is basically what actors and writers are. View quote
Bruce Boxleitner
Also, in my acting, I feel very much like a storyteller, exploring the flaws of the characters that I interpret. I look for the imperfections, and I love a character that is just so flawed. View quote
Danny Huston
I'm a storyteller - that's the chief function of a director. And they're moving pictures, let's make 'em move! View quote
Howard Hawks
When you play a violin piece, you are a storyteller, and you're telling a story. View quote
Joshua Bell