Storyteller Quotes - Page 16

• 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.

  Dorothy Allison

  Art, Writing, Responsibility

  "A Conversation with Dorothy Allison". Interview with Renée Olander, www.awpwriter.org. October 2002.

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• 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

  People, Creative, Would Be

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• 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

  Dream, Character, Thinking

  Source: www.usatoday.com

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• 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

  Teacher, School, Opportunity

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• The earliest voice listened to by the nations in their infancy was the voice of the storyteller.

  Agnes Repplier

  Voice, Storytelling, Infancy

  Agnes Repplier (1898). “Varia”

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• The amazing thing about becoming a parent is that you will never again be your own first priority. The gift of motherhood is the selflessness that it introduces you to, and I think that's really freeing... I think it allows you to put yourself in other people's shoes...the empathy that it slugs you with, being a mother. And I think it makes you a better storyteller.

  Olivia Wilde

  Mother, Thinking, Shoes

  "Olivia Wilde Talks Motherhood and Son Otis: 'He's Amazing in Every Way'" by Brett Malec, www.eonline.com. October 29, 2014.

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• The storyteller and poet of our time, as in any other time, must be an entertainer of the spirit in the full sense of the word, not just a preacher of social or political ideals. There is no paradise for bored readers and no excuse for tedious literature that does not intrigue the reader, uplift him, give him the joy and the escape that true art always grants.

  Isaac Bashevis Singer

  Uplifting, Art, Bored

  Isaac Bashevis Singer (1982). “The collected stories of Isaac Bashevis Singer”, Vintage

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• For me as a storyteller, I want to follow the characters and the story through what they organically demand.

  Nic Pizzolatto

  Character, Stories, Demand

  "‘True Detective’ creator Nic Pizzolatto talks season 1". Interview with Alan Sepinwall, uproxx.com. March 9, 2014.

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• I belong to an ancient, idle, wild and useless tribe, perhaps I am even one of the last members of it, who for many thousands of years, in all countries and parts of the world, has, now and again, stayed for a time among the hard-working honest people in real life, and sometimes has thus been fortunate enough to create another sort of reality for them, which in some way or another, has satisfied them. I am a storyteller.

  Isak Dinesen

  Country, Real, Hard Work

  Isak Dinesen, Karen Blixen (1987). “On Modern Marriage and Other Observations”

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• Steve Yarbrough is a masterful storyteller-one of our finest-and Safe from the Neighbors is a masterpiece. . . . This is a spellbinding, powerful novel.

  Jill McCorkle

  Powerful, Safe, Neighbor

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• I think Peter Dickinson is hands down the best stylist as a writer and the most interesting storyteller in my genre.

  Sara Paretsky

  Thinking, Hands, Interesting

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• 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

  People, Departure, Duty

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

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• I, as a storyteller, was asking questions no one in science had apparently asked. What happens in a nest of tyrannosaurs? They're precocial, meaning when they hatch, they're ready to feed and move about. My questions are "Hmm, if there's a nest of tyrannosaurs, and there's three siblings that survive, would they try to eat each other?"

  Stephen R. Bissette

  Sibling, Moving, Asking Questions

  Interview with Chris Dahlen, www.avclub.com. July 23, 2009.

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• I think the actor has a tribal role as the archetypal story teller. I think there was a time when the storyteller, the priest, the healer, were all one person in one body. That person used to weave stories at night around a small fire to keep the tribe from being terrified that sun had gone down.

  Ben Kingsley

  Healing, Night, Thinking

  "Ben Kingsley Talks Oliver Twist". Interview with Julian Roman, movieweb.com. September 20, 2005.

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• 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

  Creativity, Artist, Creative

  "A Whole New Mind: Why Right-Brainers Will Rule the Future". Book by Daniel H. Pink, www.huffingtonpost.com. 2006.

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• I am a storyteller. I've never been interested in just taking the single image and moving on. I always like to stay with the people I'm photographing for long periods of time.

  Larry Clark

  Moving, Long, People

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• I spoke with the crows before leaving for Los Angeles. They were the resident storytellers whose strident and insistent voices added the necessary dissonance for color. They had cousins in California, and gave me their names and addresses, told me to look them up. They warned me, too, what they had heard about attitude there. And they were right. Attitude was thick, hung from the would-be's and has-beens and think-they-ares, so thick that I figured it was the major source of the smog.

  Joy Harjo

  Cousin, Attitude, Thinking

  Joy Harjo (2004). “How We Became Human: New and Selected Poems 1975-2002”, p.144, W. W. Norton & Company

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• The storyteller makes no choice, soon you will not hear his voice, his job is to shed light, and not to master

  Robert Hunter

  Jobs, Light, Voice

  Robert Hunter, David G. Dodd (2005). “The Complete Annotated Grateful Dead Lyrics: The Collected Lyrics of Robert Hunter and John Barlow, Lyrics to All Original Songs, with Selected Traditional and Cover Songs”, p.262, Simon and Schuster

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• Because I am a storyteller I live by words. Perhaps music is a purer art form. It may be that when we communicate with life on another planet, it will be through music, not through language or words.

  Madeleine L'Engle

  Art, May, Language

  Madeleine L'Engle (2016). “Walking on Water: Reflections on Faith and Art”, p.34, Convergent Books

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• Brandon Sanderson is the real thing-an exciting storyteller with a unique and powerful vision. ELANTRIS is one of the finest debuts I've seen in years.

  David Farland

  Powerful, Real, Unique

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• It's no coincidence that all the greatest rappers - whoever you put in your top five - I guarantee you they a great storyteller.

  J. Cole

  Rapper, Guarantees, Coincidence

  "VIBE Summer 2013 Cover: J. Cole And Nas". Interview with John Kennedy, www.vibe.com. August 13, 2013.

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• The most powerful person in the world is the story teller.
  The storyteller sets the vision, values and agenda
  of an entire generation that is to come.

  Steve Jobs

  Powerful, Vision, World

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• A place is a story, and stories are geography, and empathy is first of all an act of imagination, a storyteller's art, and then a way of traveling from here to there.

  Rebecca Solnit

  Art, Imagination, Empathy

  Rebecca Solnit (2013). “The Faraway Nearby”, p.5, Granta Books

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• The storyteller is one who comes bearing a great and lasting gift.

  Edward Eggleston

  Lasting

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• I've always admired the tradition of storytellers who sat in the public market and told their stories to gathered crowds. They'd start with a single premise and talk for hours - the notion of one story, ever-changing but never-ending.

  Nicolas Roeg

  Stories, Crowds, Tradition

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