Best stories & storyteller Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings

“In documentary films, you're a storyteller using found objects. You still have to have a story arc and all the elements that make a good story. It really helped me mature as a storyteller.”

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Author:Garth Stein

“To be able to make up stories has been a great gift to me from my ancestors and from the storytellers who were so numerous at Laguna Pueblo when I was growing up. I learned to read as soon as I could because I wanted stories without having to depend on adults to tell or read stories to me.”

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Author:Leslie Marmon Silko

“It's the same old story. Nothing in this world happens unless white folks says it happens. And therein lies the problem of being a professional black storyteller - writer, musician, filmmaker.”

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Author:James McBride

“Stories live forever. Storytellers don't.”

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Author:Patricia Stephens Due

“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.”

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Author:Steve Jobs

“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.”

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Author:Nicolas Roeg

“I keep trying to train myself to stop saying 'filmmaker' and start saying 'storyteller.' We're telling stories.”

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Author:Christine Vachon

“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.”

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Book:The Faraway Nearby

Source: The Faraway Nearby

“I'm a storyteller and the Bible is a bunch of stories about life and things that took place here on planet earth. It's a great example to use and a great reason to be happy about being a storyteller because the lessons of the land are always in stories.”

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Author:Nas

“For a fiction writer, a storyteller, the world is full of stories, and when a story is there, it's there, and you just reach up and pick it.”

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Book:The Wave in the Mind: Talks and Essays on the Writer, the Reader, and the Imagination

Source: The Wave in the Mind: Talks and Essays on the Writer, the Reader, and the Imagination

“When I went to Stan Lee - every time I was with Stan, I learned something every day. When I would do a pencil job, if I didn't have much faith in it I would hand it in and invariably Stan would make it look like it was a well-written and well-planned-out story. It made me tell people, 'If you want to become an artist, go to work at Marvel. Stan will turn you into a storyteller.'”

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Author:John Romita, Sr.

“I see myself as a storyteller. So, when I read something, I see the story, and I see it on screen, in my head, in a certain way. I always want to see it and see me in it.”

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Author:Samuel L. Jackson

“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.”

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Book:Shylock's Daughter: A Novel of Love in Venice

Source: Shylock's Daughter: A Novel of Love in Venice

“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.”

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Author:Ben Kingsley

“My father who in this case was an obsessive life-long storyteller, and by a very peculiar trick of my father's. My father would tell a very, very long story, and the punch line would be in Yiddish.”

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Author:Stephen Greenblatt

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

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Author:Nic Pizzolatto

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