Storyteller Quotes - Page 3

• When I performed the songs in front of an audience at the end of each project and I knew the storytellers were in the crowd listening, that was hard.

  Jens Lekman

  Song, Listening, Crowds

  Source: pitchfork.com

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• Novels have become equally important to me as films. I consider myself a storyteller and passionately engaged in both of those disciplines.

  Rebecca Miller

  Discipline, Important, Film

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• The Illusionist is the storyteller in so many ways. Symbols become his obsession. It's not simply about creating plot - one must also grapple with theme. Nowadays we have a lot of characters and a lot of action but it's hard to sit still and really meditate on meaning, worldviews, concepts, ideologies even. I make my Illusionist do what I've had to do, often with copious amounts of stumbling and frustration. His real humanity comes from being an artist, I think - his creativity is what makes him a man.

  Porochista Khakpour

  Real, Creativity, Character

  Source: therumpus.net

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• I find it only natural for a storyteller to be interested in storytelling and, for anyone who spends the better part of his or her life writing fiction, it is hardly surprising that the pleasures, worries, and mechanics of fiction-making should enter the work.

  Norman Lock

  Writing, Worry, Fiction

  Source: therumpus.net

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• I'm not a horror movie guy, but I think the guy that did Saw, or maybe House or something, he was saying you love that age as a storyteller because a nineteen-year-old is still dumb enough to make really bad decisions, but he's allowed to be out on his own.

  Craig Finn

  Thinking, Years, House

  Source: therumpus.net

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• Scheherazade, of course, was always in the back of my mind, because she's also a storyteller identified as female who tells a lot of anti-female stories. There's a parade in The Arabian Nights of sorceresses, adulteresses, ghouls, sirens, harridans.

  Marina Warner

  Night, Ghouls, Mind

  Source: therumpus.net

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• One of the metaphors of the book is the carpet. Not just the flying carpet, but the carpet as a woven surface in which many repetitions and motifs recur and mirror one another. This is very much reflected within the stories: they have borders within borders, repeated motifs which change. They have their feet in oral conventions, and for the mnemonics, the storyteller needs to have a structure in order to remember the stories.

  Marina Warner

  Book, Mirrors, Order

  Source: therumpus.net

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• If what that man did in his life, makes the blood pulse through the body of others, and makes them believe deeper in something larger than life, then his essence, his spirit, will be immortalized by the storytellers, by the loyalty, by the memory, of those who honor him and make whatever the man did live forever.

  The Ultimate Warrior

  Loyalty, Memories, Believe

  "Personal Quotes/ Biography". www.imdb.com.

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• I like to multitask. I love the process of the storytelling in television. I love the serial. Even my stab at doing a procedural show was still very much serialized. I'm such a serialized storyteller. I feel like the story never ends. I want it to go and go and go. However, with cable and streaming now it's endless. You can do anything.

  Kevin D. Williamson

  Stories, Television, Want

  Source: collider.com

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• Like a versatile baller, George Dohrmann swings seamlessly from position to position: investigative journalist, social critic, gifted storyteller. The result is a gem of a book that addresses THE question central to contemporary basketball: how does such an unseemly culture spring from such an essentially beautiful game? You'll come away rooting harder than ever for the kids and harder than ever against the basketball profiteers.

  L. Jon Wertheim

  Basketball, Beautiful, Spring

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• All writers write about themselves, just as the old storytellers chose to tell stories that spoke to and about themselves. They call it the world, but it is themselves they portray. The world of which they write is like a mirror that reflects the inside of their hearts, often more truly than they know.

  Jane Yolen

  Writing, Heart, Mirrors

  Jane Yolen (1981). “Touch Magic: Fantasy, Faerie and Folklore in the Literature of Childhood”, Philomel

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• I like to think of myself as a storyteller.

  Kate DiCamillo

  Thinking

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• Even when I think of writing fiction, it's being kind of a liar, a storyteller, a weaver, and there's that sense of how much of this is your life. The story is a way you unravel your life from behind a mask.

  Edwidge Danticat

  Liars, Writing, Thinking

  Interview David Barsamian, progressive.org. October 1, 2003.

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• Well I'm not a storyteller, as far as telling stories which relate to experiences in my own life. That's not what I do. I write songs which have a narrative and attempt to make sense and tell a story - sure! But whenever I hear the word "storyteller" I think of a children's musician.

  Freedy Johnston

  Song, Children, Writing

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• I am a storyteller from a personal viewpoint. When I run out of people I invent ghosts. I don't believe in ghosts. Never saw one.

  Ruskin Bond

  Running, Believe, People

  Source: www.abhijitbhaduri.com

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• My models were oral, were storytellers. Like my grandmothers and my aunts. It's true, a lot of people in my life were not literate in a formal sense, but they were storytellers. So I had this experience of just watching somebody spin a tale off the top of her head. I loved that.

  Edwidge Danticat

  Grandmother, Aunt, People

  Interview with David Barsamia, progressive.org. October 1, 2003.

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• Whole interaction between the storyteller and the listeners had a very powerful influence on me.

  Edwidge Danticat

  Powerful, Influence, Interaction

  Interview with David Barsamian, progressive.org. October 1, 2003.

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• And I don't feel any fear in a sense, because I have every good intention in my heart. 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

  Heart, Past, Play

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• Amanda Ashley is a master storyteller.

  Christine Feehan

  Amanda, Masters, Ashley

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• I'm old-fashioned, a storyteller. I'm not an analyst and I'm not an intellectual.

  John Irving

  Intellectual, Analysts, Old Fashioned

  "Avenue of Mysteries by John Irving review - dreaming the past into life" by Alex Clark, www.theguardian.com. January 5, 2016.

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• In every case the storyteller is a man who has counsel for his readers.

  Walter Benjamin

  Men, Cases, Reader

  Walter Benjamin, Marcus Paul Bullock, Michael William Jennings, Howard Eiland, Gary Smith (2002). “Selected Writings: 1935-1938”, p.145, Harvard University Press

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• It's a great wake-up call for our entire industry: What movies are we making? What storytellers are we allowing to tell the stories? What people are we allowing to be cast in those stories? I think we need newer stories, and more people given the opportunity to do anything they want.

  John Krasinski

  Opportunity, Thinking, People

  "John Krasinski Is Looking To Push The Limits In Hollywood". Interview with Leigh Blickley, www.huffingtonpost.com. January 29, 2016.

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• A lot of modernism does seem to come out of a fear of being thought an ordinary storyteller. So they tell it backwards and they tell it in the present tense and they cut loose the pages and shuffle them around - all that kind of stuff.

  Philip Pullman

  Cutting, Ordinary, Doe

  "His Grimm Materials: A Conversation With Philip Pullman". Interview with Michael Mechanic, www.motherjones.com. November/December 2012.

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• what storyteller is adequate to her story? The story carries us along, bottles on the tide, each with our secret mesage and the fervent hope that it does not turn out to be blank.

  Erica Jong

  Secret, Doe, Bottles

  Erica Jong (2013). “Shylock's Daughter: A Novel of Love in Venice”, p.10, Open Road Media

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• Well, I think storytellers have always found murder a fascinating device.

  Donna Tartt

  Thinking, Literature, Murder

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