Quotes About Narrative

Because if we the storytellers don't do this, then the bad people will win.

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

I come from a long line of storytellers.

I come from a family of storytellers.

Rappers were my storytellers.

As British people, we don't often face what our role in history is. We're only just beginning to do that. Storytellers have an incredibly important role in confronting that and continuing the conversation.

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.

I've read a hundred fantastic scripts that didn't pan out as films, and I completely put that on the directors. I've also read some mediocre scripts that have ended up being amazing, and I credit that to the directors. They're the storytellers. If you don't have a good storyteller, you really have nothing.

With the finale episode of 'Gravity Falls' our job as storytellers is to finish all the things we've started.

What I find interesting about folklore is the dialogue it gives us with storytellers from centuries past.

Well, I think storytellers have always found murder a fascinating device.

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.

I think 'Overlord' has definitely benefited because I work with every single level designer, and working where we have space to tell the story. That's what it's all about - getting writers and storytellers involved in the team and being a back and forth process.

When you come from a family of storytellers, you're doomed. You just have to tell stories.

I come from a family of Russian immigrant Jews who were all big storytellers, who would get together, and one would try to top the others' stories, and stories would get bigger and bigger. And the lying aspect, the exaggeration, would get large.

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

My interpretation of a strong director is someone who knows their story. That's what directors are, they're storytellers because they're directing where your focus is going to be as an audience.

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.

My family are all storytellers, and I think I inherited a lot more of that gene than other people in my family. I guess I was fun to have around.

I like people who tell stories. I like storytellers. A lot of my songs are misconceived as being auto-biographical when they're not because I write in the first person.

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.