Quotes About Inspiration

It's always an amazing gift to be able to work with storytellers who 'get it' and who can not only draw anything but can draw it better and more dynamically than you'd ever envisioned.

The old storytellers took the stories that meant something to them and rearranged the pieces to say something.

I learned from the best storytellers in the world: Bill Withers, Stevie Wonder, Prince, Ne-Yo, Michael Jordan, Vin Diesel, RuPaul.

My favourite writers are always great storytellers, like Bruce Springsteen; I adore Bruce Springsteen. I feel like he doesn't beat around the bush, and he doesn't overcomplicate things. He puts things into layman's terms and tells stories that anyone can understand.

I grew up listening to the 60's and 70's... storytellers and poets.

I really latched on to announcers who were good storytellers.

We have privilege in our hands as storytellers. We need to tell stories that reflect our world.

We're all storytellers in this business, and I personally love to sit back and watch someone tell a story. If it's done well, there's nothing like it. It's pure.

I'm a storyteller. My whole family is storytellers. I'm just a product of my environment.

Storytelling isn't an Escher staircase.

The hours I spent attempting to decipher some of Dunnett's more oblique passages opened me to the possibilities of romantic storytelling.

I remember, when I was at school, we would have a 10-minute storytelling session where we'd all sit on the floor cross-legged, and the teacher would read. It became something we all really looked forward to. That was part of the reason I grew to love stories.

I just love storytelling. I write music to tell stories. So when I'm done writing a song, I take it and go, 'Okay. How can I interpret these lyrics differently?' I love taking lyrics that were so close to me at a certain point in my life and then revamping them. I always want to take things to the next level.

Ever since I was introduced to Ekta Kapoor, I have learnt a great deal from her storytelling, and the learning continues.

When I think about the shows that we have on our air, we've been known for a long time for shows that feature strong, dynamic, powerful women at their forefront. And we're going to continue with that kind of storytelling.

I remember that - you know, I didn't receive a formal education. I was educated in the Montevideo cafe, in the cafes of Montevideo. There, I received my first lessons in the art of telling stories, storytelling.

From early on there were two things that filled my life - music and storytelling, both of them provoked by my father. He was a jazz pianist and also a very good storyteller, an avid reader. He passed both those interests on to me.

The 'Homecoming King' show started off as a storytelling show that I had done; I worked with Greg Walloch to develop it and build it into something bigger.

I feel I'm following my path. I'm living my truth, and my path is storytelling.

Novels are one of the few remaining areas of narrative storytelling where one person does almost all of the creative heavy lifting.

Storytelling, mythology and film provide a lot of hope but, on the flip side, can also create delusion.

I feel like I get drawn to - and I know it sounds cheesy but - I love storytelling.

I like storytelling, and I feel more confident as the years have gone on about my ability to do that.

When you're working in a collaborative storytelling medium, every step of the way, you're opening yourself up.