Quotes About Connection

The first job of a storyteller is to make the reader feel the story, to get the reader to live in the skin of the character.

I think my mission, if I could call it that, as a storyteller is to try and find ways to show how similar we are and not how different we are.

As a storyteller, when you see somebody who is the character you envisioned, you feel this energy in the room.

I'm a very observational storyteller, and I'm always relational - a lot of stories stem from relationships, whether it's me with my husband, me with my mom or my siblings.

I'm not a gifted storyteller, so I write what I know and hope that honesty resonates with other people's experiences.

To me, I'm a storyteller.

The thing I love about theater is the fact that everyone's complicit. We're either there as a storyteller, or we're there as a listener, and it's basically a campfire situation.

My dad is a storyteller. I've heard his funny stories 500 times, but I would never stop him because he tells them so brilliantly and still knows where to put the funny bit.

My whole family are hams. They're storytellers and everyone outdoes the next one.

Writers are storytellers. So are readers.

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

I really latched on to announcers who were good storytellers.

You're never going to kill storytelling, because it's built into the human plan. We come with it.

We are the storytelling animal.

I come from a big family where we tell big stories. All we had was the storytelling.

Storytelling is essentially what we do.

It takes a perverse determination to drain that instinctive curiosity away and make history seem just remote, dead and disconnected from our contemporary reality. Conversely, it just takes skilful storytelling to recharge that connection to make the past come alive in our present.

I like the storytelling and reading the letters, the long-distance dedications. Anytime in radio that you can reach somebody on an emotional level, you're really connecting.

I think people love having a person behind a brand who lives it. The idea of storytelling is really important.

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

My mom used to call me 'Oprah' because I was always in a corner crying with somebody. I've always been attracted to storytelling around women's lives.

Storytelling is important. Part of human continuity.

Whether we're talking about books, music or film, it's all about storytelling. You get a powerful new way of connecting with people once you hear their stories.

Storytelling is what lights my fire.