Quotes About Imagination

I love telling stories, and I'm a born storyteller. That's what I do, and that's what I want to continue to do.

I realized that I've always been a storyteller.

To me, I'm a storyteller.

I'm a storyteller.

As a storyteller, you have the story that you tell, and you have the way you can tell it, and both are equally important.

I want to make a period film, I want to make a film set in another country. I want to make a foreign film. I want to make everything eventually. I am a storyteller. I have many stories to tell.

As a storyteller, I realize that because of the inherent abstraction in rhythm, the possible interpretations are plenty. But that only makes the work more challenging.

I write and I read, and I write and read my way into and out of ideas and life. And that's what we do. That's what storytellers do.

I grew up in a family of storytellers, but Google has destroyed us because you can fact-check everything. We'd always like the stories to be a little better than they were.

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.

I don't know if Jim was a major part of that or not. He is one of a small group of real storytellers. He has enormous imagination and ability to write. I'm glad he's coming back. It's going to be good for the show.

It's not an accident that both my sister and I are writers. Our parents created an accidental Petri dish. My family has great storytellers, and I grew up in a very funny, conversational house and didn't have television. This small family farm was a bubble world that didn't have much to do with reality.

My parents were both storytellers. They always spoke with metaphorical richness.

Oh, mercy, I think we're all storytellers, you know. You think of the excuses you told your parents for why you got home late. I just never gave it up.

Reading was a huge part of my life as a child - we were a family of storytellers.

John Grisham is one of the greatest storytellers of all time.

Painters were also attorneys, happy storytellers of anecdote, psychologists, botanists, zoologists, archaeologists, engineers, but there were no creative painters.

And meanwhile, the storytellers like me and Anderson, Silverberg... we tell stories. People like them. They want to know how it comes out, they want to know what the ending is.

Writers are storytellers. So are readers.

People who actually tell stories, meaning people who write novels and make feature films, don't see themselves as storytellers.

As storytellers, you're always somehow creating history.

I never thought about what I would write. I just come from such a big family of storytellers.

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.

We're storytellers - and if the story is told well, you go with the form.