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• A true storyteller is really good at writing himself into a corner and then finding a way out of that corner

  Michael Chabon

  Writing, Way, True Story

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• What I find interesting about folklore is the dialogue it gives us with storytellers from centuries past.

  Terri Windling

  Past, Giving, Interesting

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• I love telling stories. I think of myself as a storyteller, and I don't feel bound by being just a singer or an actress. First, I'm a storyteller, and history is stories - the most compelling stories. There is a lot you can find out about yourself through knowing about history. I have always been attracted to things that are old. I have just always found such things interesting and compelling.

  Zooey Deschanel

  Thinking, Knowing, Interesting

  "She & Him". Interview with Ryan Dombal, pitchfork.com. March 15, 2010.

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• A road-wise folkie with a bluesy soul reminiscent of early Michelle Shocked, Melissa Crabtree is an original storyteller and performer not to be missed.

  Catie Curtis

  Wise, Soul, Melissa

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• You can throw away the privilege of acting, but that would be such a shame. The tribe has elected you to tell its story. You are the shaman/healer, that's what the storyteller is, and I think it's important for actors to appreciate that. Too often actors think it's all about them, when in reality it's all about the audience being able to recognize themselves in you. The more you pull away from the public, the less power you have on screen.

  Ben Kingsley

  Reality, Thinking, Appreciate

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• I don't write fiction but I do write narrative; I write memoirs that I treat like stories, so whenever I'm using somebody I actually know as a model, I am submitting them to the agenda of a storyteller, and I feel free to do what I want.

  Vivian Gornick

  Writing, Fiction, Stories

  Source: www.believermag.com

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• I sometimes wonder what those of us who are writers would become in a nonliterary culture - storytellers? Hermits?

  Rebecca Solnit

  Culture, Sometimes, Wonder

  Interview with Benjamin Cohen, believermag.com. September 1, 2009.

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• To be a storyteller is to be able to speak truth, to be able to use your imagination, to use the creative gifts that the Creator has given you.

  Common

  Imagination, Creative, Use

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• To me to be a storyteller is you got to be able to speak the truth. You've got to be able to absorb life and take in life and be able to interpret it in a way that anybody in this room could say, "Man, that's my story. I can relate to that."

  Common

  Men, Stories, Able

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• You turn the computer into the storyteller and the player into the audience, like in the old days when the storyteller would actually respond to the audience, rather than just having the audience respond to the storyteller. I had an enormous amount of fun, actually, working on that.

  Douglas Adams

  Fun, Player, Computer

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• I think that people have to have a story. When you tell a story, most people are not good storytellers because they think it's about them. You have to make your story, whatever story it is you're telling, their story. So you have to get good at telling a story so they can identify themselves in your story.

  Larry Winget

  Thinking, People, Stories

  Source: interviewingauthors.com

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• I'm an old storyteller. I tell the story. It's about the story.

  Nikki Giovanni

  Stories

  "Nikki Giovanni: Personal Politics". Interview with Nicole Sealey for Mosaic Magazine, No. 22, mosaicmagazine.org. August 1, 2008.

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• I became a writer because I got addicted to story. The first storyteller in my life was my father.

  Salman Rushdie

  Father, Stories, Firsts

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• 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

  Character, Men, Views

  "TIFF 2015 Women Directors: Meet Danae Elon – ‘P.S. Jerusalem’". Interview with Freja Dam, www.indiewire.com. September 11, 2015.

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• My greatest strength as a writer is that I'm a storyteller. But, it was a long, hard struggle for me to make the transition from verbally telling stories to writing them. You'll note I don't dwell on descriptions in my writing, because I'm far more interested in telling the story. There are many better writers in this world, but you'd be hard pressed to find anyone more passionate about stories than I am.

  Debbie Macomber

  Struggle, Writing, Long

  Source: bookpage.com

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• I think spending a lot of time with my mom, who's a talker and a storyteller, and my dad, who has kind of a soft-spoken, understated sense of humor, I think that's how I became what I am, which is sort of an understated storyteller.

  Mike Birbiglia

  Mom, Dad, Thinking

  Source: www.motherjones.com

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• Storytellers, by the very act of telling, communicate a radical learning that changes lives and the world: telling stories is a universally accessible means through which people make meaning.

  Chris Cavanaugh

  Life Changing, Communication, Mean

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• There's a virtue,' Felix said, 'to listening to a reluctant storyteller. You know that he is in fact diving deep for the salvageable truth.

  Anne Rice

  Diving Deep, Listening, Facts

  Anne Rice (2013). “The Wolf Gift”, p.544, Random House

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• In the greatest fiction, the writer's moral sense coincides with his dramatic sense, and I see no way for it to do this unless his moral judgement is part of the very act of seeing, and he is free to use it. I have heard it said that belief in Christian dogma is a hindrance to the writer, but I myself have found nothing further from the truth. Actually, it frees the storyteller to observe. It is not a set of rules which fixes what he sees in the world. It affects his writing primarily by guaranteeing his respect for mystery.

  Flannery O'Connor

  Christian, Writing, Moral Judgement

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• You know what a storyteller is, don't you? It's a person that has a good memory who hopes other people don't.

  Sandra Dallas

  Memories, People, Storytelling

  Sandra Dallas (2010). “Prayers for Sale”, p.28, Macmillan

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• Fiction cannot recite the numbing numbers, but it can be that witness, that memory. A storyteller can attempt to tell the human tale, can make a galaxy out of the chaos, can point to the fact that some people survived even as most people died. And can remind us that the swallows still sing around the smokestacks.

  Jane Yolen

  Memories, Numbers, People

  Jane Yolen (1990). “The Devil's Arithmetic”, p.100, Penguin

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• The issues which mattered to me as an activist, mainly things like prison reform and AIDS, have less of a chance of getting covered on my show than things I don't have a personal interest in. It's because I don't trust my antenna about being a good storyteller on those subjects, because I know a lot and therefore lose touch with what the average person might find interesting about them.

  Rachel Maddow

  Average, Issues, Interesting

  "The Lenny Interview: Rachel Maddow". Interview with Grace Dunham, www.yahoo.com. April 21, 2016.

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• For this too I learned, that a storyteller's tale may end, but history goes on always. These events, so distant in legend, play a part in shaping the very events we witness about us, each and every day.

  Jacqueline Carey

  Play, Events, Goes On

  Jacqueline Carey (2002). “Kushiel's Dart”, p.60, Macmillan

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• There is more beauty in truth, even if it is a dreadful beauty. The storytellers at the city gate twist life so that it looks sweet to the lazy and the stupid and the weak, and this only strengthens their infirmities and teaches nothing, cures nothing, nor does it let the heart soar.

  John Steinbeck

  Sweet, Stupid, Heart

  John Steinbeck (1952). “East of Eden, And, The Wayward Bus”

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• As my contribution as an artist and a storyteller, I have to have some hope. I have to have some beacon of good at the end of it.

  Eric Heisserer

  Artist, Ends, Beacons

  Source: www.mtv.com

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