Storyteller Quotes

Every poet — every storyteller — requires motivation.

The store of fairy tales, that blue chamber where stories lie waiting to be rediscovered, holds out the promise of just those creative enchantments, not only for its own characters caught in its own plotlines; it offers magical metamorphoses to the one who opens the door, who passes on what was found there, and to those who hear what the storyteller brings. The faculty of wonder, like curiosity can make things happen; it is time for wishful thinking to have its due.

Marina Warner

The worst of such stories is that the triumphant romancers can always be put to confusion and crushed by the very details in which real life is so rich and which these unhappy and involuntary story-tellers neglect as insignificant trifles. Oh, they have no thought to spare for such details, their minds are concentrated on their grand invention as a whole, and fancy any one daring to pull them up for a trifle! But that's how they are caught.

Fyodor Dostoyevsky

In this time of 'information overload', people do not need more information. They want a story they can relate to.

Maarten Schäfer

If you just go get one of these little fine arts degrees or writing program degrees, it never forces you to confront your responsibility as narrator, whereas any of the social sciences make you at look the interaction between the storyteller and story. Hurston understood that. But then she and I write out of despised cultures that on some level we feel we're defending.

Dorothy Allison

People want to do business with you because of 'who you are' and 'what you stand for'... not because of 'what you do'."Create your story... publish it online and make sure people will find you when they Google you.

Anouk Pappers & Maarten Schäfer

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

If a storyteller worried about the facts - my dear Lucian, how could he ever get at the truth?

Lloyd Alexander

Writing nonfiction means I tell people's stories for them, not because they're special but because we all are.

Jo Deurbrouck

Once upon a time, there was a story. But no one to tell it.

A.D.Y. Howle

I would travel far and wide...seeing, listening, creating. I would weave tales for an enthralled audience. A song would be heard throughout the kingdom, and I would be a part of that. You would normally think that a bard would pick up his tales from stories heard in his travels or, perhaps, from personal observation of these events. Perhaps some bards would create the stories themselves or, at least, adapt the original versions heard... But what if the bard were really more than a bard? What if he were once a gallant knight or an old sea captain...perhaps even a forgotten prince? What if the stories he told, what if the characters brought to life in his stories, were really of his comrades and himself? Stories from long ago that he finally wished to be heard? What if those who listened to his tales, all the while assuming that they were far disconnected from their communicator, were really listening to the narrative of a wanderer intimately connected to it all? And where would such an individual go when his final days as an “official” bard were spent? Perhaps he would decide to retire in a lighthouse. For, surely, no place would be more fitting for the hero emeritus. He would gaze upon the glorious sea in recollection...guiding others with the beacon of light atop his home as he had once been shepherded. The adventurer became the storyteller...and then the Sentinel of the Sea.

Gina Marinello-Sweeney

At one point in your life you have to decide whether you want to become a sachem or a solitary.

Akilnathan Logeswaran

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

Time changes nothing, girl, but the size of your underwear. . .and hopefully your hairdo.

Minton Sparks

Never be afraid to your share your story.

Lailah Gifty Akita

I must have been chosen because I know it all from beginning to end. I am certainly not the story itself. I am only the grass that tattles on the wind.

Alfredo Véa

I did not want to tell her what happened, but I had to now. I could not stop talking because now I had started my story, it wanted to be finished. We cannot choose where to start and stop. Our stories are the tellers of us.

Chris Cleave

Live your life in such a way that it is going to be the favorite story of your generation and generations to come.

Amit Kalantri

Follow your gut, Storyteller, it will lead to your happy ending.

Isabel Greenberg

Many storytellers with possibly more potential than Shakespeare, even though I have not read much of him, could not hit much fame because they treated their stories like their wives. Rather than limiting the emotion only to flirting with their stories, they married them, thus limiting their chances of experimenting.

Pawan Mishra

The Gingerbread House has four walls, a roof, a door, a window, and a chimney. It is decorated with many sweet culinary delights on the outside.But on the inside there is nothing—only the bare gingerbread walls.It is not a real house—not until you decide to add a Gingerbread Room.That’s when the stories can move in.They will stay in residence for as long as you abstain from taking the first gingerbread bite.

Vera Nazarian

I'll tell you a secret.Old storytellers never die.They disappear into their own story.

Vera Nazarian

Everyone has a story within them, let yours out.

C.J. Heath

Tell me a story. Be my storyteller.

Arzum Uzun

It was entirely taken for granted that there wasn't any lying in our family, and I was advanced in adolescence before I realized that in plenty of homes where I played with schoolmates, and went to their parties, children lied to their parents and parents lied to their children and to each other. It took me a long time to realize that these very same everyday lies, and the stratagems and jokes and tricks and dares that went with them, were in fact the basis of the scenes I so well loved to hear about and hoped for and treasured in the conversation of adults. My instinct - the dramatic instinct - was to lead me, eventually, on the right track for a storyteller: the scene was full of hints, pointers, suggestions, and promises of things to find out and know about human beings.I had to grow up and learn to listen for the unspoken as well as the spoken - and to know a truth, I also had to recognize a lie.

Eudora Welty

Growing a culture requires a good storyteller. Changing a culture requires a persuasive editor.

Ryan Lilly

When we want mood experiences, we go to concerts or museums. When we want meaningful emotional experience, we go to the storyteller.

Robert McKee

Socially interacting with a storyteller can be a frustrating challenge because a portion of her awareness is constantly sorting through the details of a developing book. And while you may successfully engage in a meaningful conversation with her, an additional part of her mind is frantically sifting through descriptive lines to be used if ever she were to write this exchange down. The trouble with writers is that they are ALWAYS writing!

Richelle E. Goodrich

Magic is the most interesting art because people not necessarily want to learn to paint after they see a great painting, but they want to learn magic after they see a great magic effect.

Amit Kalantri

First rate magician perform first rate magic effects, second rate magician performs third rate magic effects.

Amit Kalantri

Your eyes, ears and mind are imperfect in front of magic.

Amit Kalantri

Magician is the best storyteller in the world.

Amit Kalantri

Think like magician, present like magician and perform like magician.

Amit Kalantri

Magic is a very beautiful mystery. Even the ages old magic effects still surprises the most modern men.

Amit Kalantri

Magicians and Mentalist predict the future because they create it.

Amit Kalantri

For surely a king is first a man. And so it must follow that a king does as all men do: the best he can.

Cameron Dokey

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

That's what we storytellers do. We restore order with imagination. We instill hope again and again and again.

Kelly Marcel & Sue Smith

Your heart is like a great river after a long spell of rain, spilling over its banks. All signposts that once stood on the ground are gone, inundated and carried away by that rush of water. And still the rain beats down on the surface of the river. Every time you see a flood like that on the news you tell yourself: That’s it. That’s my heart.

Haruki Murakami

Our stories hold unique inspiration for one another.

Lailah Gifty Akita

This love is hard core. Let's make it soft porn.

Arzum Uzun

I am a storyteller, not a historian, and it's my ambition to create something compelling - something unputdownable and riveting - that chimes with the real history but is, in fact, fiction.

Sara Sheridan

That's what you would do with untold power? Eat cake?

Desiree Williams

You know that when a utility company is going down the fantasy route, they are likely hiding some illegal activity that they are engaging in. Fabricating fictional stories to their government regulator is just one of the many illegal activities that they engage in.

Steven Magee

A story from beginning to end that might entertain, teach, or simply bore your listener. It's all in the delivery, my dear."He got a smug look on his face as he scooted his posterior deeper into the chair and took his pipe between his teeth. "I'm just better at it than most.

Karen L Milstein

If I were a zombieI'd never eat your brainI'd just want your heart

Stephanie Mabey

They take their drama firsthand, in the real world, while I prefer the drama of fictional characters–in worlds where things happen for a reason, where questions are answered, where conflicts are always resolved.

Kat O'Keeffe

Maybe stories choose how they are told and who tells them.

Kamand Kojouri

We are all born as storytellers. Our inner voice tells the first story we ever hear.

Kamand Kojouri

I meet people and they become chapters in my stories.

Avijeet Das

I doubt I was much of a storyteller, but I would have put that smile in my book. On page 104, right next to the image of the Ward. I would have written it on my heart. I would have proofread it a thousand times under a thousand moons until a thousand tears thoroughly rationalized what it meant to me. Each time for when I’d met the darkness, and then succumbed. The smile read “you can’t break me’”—bold and in italics.

Nadège Richards

If the storytellers told it true, all stories would end in death.

George Pelecanos

If you write then you are reborn because by writing about the moment, you can relive it for a second time.

Kamand Kojouri

Death is the sanction of everything the story-teller can tell. He has borrowed his authority from death.

Walter Benjamin

I am a storyteller and experience the bliss of writing.

Amy Leigh Mercree

I tell the story to you now, but in each telling the story itself changes a little, changes direction, and that in turn changes you and me. So be very careful not only in how you repeat it but in how you remember it, goslings. More often than you realize it, the world is shaped by two things -- stories told and the memories they leave behind.

Vera Nazarian

All stories have a curious and even dangerous power. They are manifestations of truth -- yours and mine. And truth is all at once the most wonderful yet terrifying thing in the world, which makes it nearly impossible to handle. It is such a great responsibility that it's best not to tell a story at all unless you know you can do it right. You must be very careful, or without knowing it you can change the world.

Vera Nazarian

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