Quotes About Raconteur

In these pages the novelist should be able to find a striking verse to head his chapter, the raconteur add to his bon mots, the man of the world enrich his stock of maxims, the divine obtain some deep thought drawn from the wells of ancient learning.

Apparently I'm well-known for my stories, my raconteur tales, that sort of thing.

But because Lowrey's stories were usually very long. He fancied himself a raconteur. And he liked background. And context. Deep background, and deep context.

I consider myself something of a raconteur. I have a rather audacious sense of humour.

I come to writing from hearing great stories as a child in Louisiana, where the mark of a person was his or her ability to be a raconteur. I also come to writing as a professional actress whose body has been trained to listen and smell and inhabit characters without judgment.

laughed as hard as I did—harder sometimes. I kept sneaking glances at her: shoulders shaking, handkerchief pressed to her mouth. I was happy she was having such a good time. I was no author, no satirist, no raconteur, but I did know that the humor of this man Clemens was different. Besides being funny, every word he spoke was the absolute truth.

Voice is the je ne sais quoi of spirited writing. It separates brochure from brilliance, memo from memoir, a ship's log from The Old Man and the Sea .…The writer leaves us with a sense that we are listening to a skilled raconteur rather than passing our eyes over ink on paper.

Lively conversation would have helped her remain alert, but Trahern was not a raconteur with a trove of sparkling anecdotes.

He spoke obliviously and happily, believing himself to be a perfect pitch raconteur and public performer, while everyone with him held their breath.