Storyteller Quotes - Page 7

• 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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• The truth is, I'm a storyteller. And it scares me, because my training as an academic is that the more accessible you are and the more human you are, the less smart you are. It's a shame trigger for me to be honest.

  Brené Brown

  Smart, Training, Scare

  Interview with Chantal Pierrat, www.marandapleasantmedia.com.

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• I’m just a storyteller, and the cinema happens to be my medium. I like it because it recreates life in movement, enlarges it, enhances it, distills it. For me, it’s far closer to the miraculous creation of life than, say, a painting or music or even literature. It’s not just an art form; it’s actually a new form of life, with its own rhythms, cadences, perspectives and transparencies. It’s my way of telling a story.

  Federico Fellini

  Art, Perspective, Cinema

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• I am very fond of Edith Wharton. She's quite high brow but also a great storyteller. My favorite is 'The House of Mirth.' I also like 'The Reef.

  Ken Follett

  House, Mirth, My Favorite

  "Ken Follett: Prolific writer, fan of 19th-century novels". Interview by Amy Sutherland, www.bostonglobe.com. September 23, 2012.

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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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• 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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• 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.

  Danny Huston

  Character, Imperfection, Acting

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• I have come to understand that life is too complex and much too short to let amateurs direct the story. I would rather let the Master Storyteller do the writing.

  Steve Saint

  Writing, Stories, Life Is

  Steve Saint (2010). “End of the Spear”, p.60, Tyndale House Publishers, Inc.

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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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• We are basically storytellers, descendants of the old men who sat around the fire and told us legends, fairytales, exploits, or maybe just how funny Og looked when he fell into the tar pit.

  Sol Saks

  Men, Fire, Pits

  Sol Saks (1991). “Funny Business: The Craft of Comedy Writing”, Lone Eagle Publishing Company, LLC

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• Whether you consider me a master filmmaker or not, I do it with my intuition and my vision, my experience as a storyteller.

  Abbas Kiarostami

  Intuition, Vision, Masters

  "They Should Be Grateful: An Interview with Abbas Kiarostami". Interview with Zachary Wigon, filmmakermagazine.com. February 13, 2013.

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• We understand ourselves through stories, by making stories out of our lives. Storytellers give people structure with which they can begin to look at their own lives and try to make sense of them.

  Bill Harley

  People, Giving, Trying

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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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• 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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• I kept imagining these people, just living their daily lives, and then having them suddenly ended in unjust tragedy. When we watch the news, we grieve all of this, but when we go to the movies, we want more of it. Somehow we realize that great stories are told in conflict, but we are unwilling to embrace the potential greatness of the story we are actually in. We think God is unjust, rather than a master storyteller.

  Donald Miller

  Greatness, Thinking, Grieving

  Donald Miller (2009). “A Million Miles in a Thousand Years: What I Learned While Editing My Life”, p.31, Thomas Nelson Inc

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• I think of myself in the oral tradition-as a troubadour, a village tale-teller,
  the man in the shadows of the campfire. That's the way I'd like to be remembered-
  as a storyteller. A good storyteller.

  Louis L'Amour

  Men, Thinking, Shadow

  Louis L'Amour (2004). “The Shadow Riders”, p.66, Bantam

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• On a practical level I'm a TV producer and storyteller who's gone about as long as you can go without achieving a mass audience.

  David Simon

  Long, Gone, Levels

  "The Wire creator David Simon wins 'genius' grant" by Alison Flood, www.theguardian.com. September 28, 2010.

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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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• 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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• 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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