Quotes About Creativity

I'm a good storyteller.

I think I'm a born storyteller. Inspiration is all around me. I can read a newspaper article and come up with an idea for a book.

I think of myself as an assistant storyteller.

I don't want to say you should censor yourselves, but the storyteller should be able to defend why a narrative needed to shift that way or should only be told this way.

Instincts are a really important guide for any artist, but particularly filmmakers because it takes a lot to stay true to your instincts as a storyteller.

I think of myself as a storyteller, and that is it.

The first job I was offered was as an editorial assistant. I think it was the best thing for me, in terms of being a storyteller by nature, to have spent years being an editor because I learned so much from it.

In documentary films, you're a storyteller using found objects. You still have to have a story arc and all the elements that make a good story. It really helped me mature as a storyteller.

I'm hardly a known name, but I don't want to go, like, 'Oh, people call me a storyteller comedian, let me just go up and just talk about my day.' I don't want that to happen.

I was never taken to a play or concert or church. Yet I was a show-off, a dreamer, a storyteller.

No, you're either born a writer, a storyteller, or you're not.

I've always been a writer, I've always been a storyteller, but I never thought about screenwriting.

I'm still not sure I want to be a writer. I think of myself as a storyteller more.

I am essentially an entertainer and a storyteller.

Whether I'm telling stories in songs or if directing is the next step, being a storyteller is what I like doing.

Rowling is a luminous storyteller. I love her sense of humor and the intricate wizarding world she built around Hogwarts. I think all writers aspire to be like her, to capture readers like she does. But I didn't think about 'Harry Potter' when I wrote 'The Bone Season.'

Hi. My name is Debby, and I am a storyteller. I don't think of myself as an actress. I am more like a face that takes words on a page, and puts them in front of your eyes.

At the core, I'm a filmmaker and a storyteller.

I am very fortunate in that I have spent pretty much my whole life being a writer, and before I was a writer, I was a storyteller.

I always say show me a storyteller who doesn't embellish, and I'll show you a bad one.

I'm a compulsive storyteller, an avid reader, and have always nurtured the secret goal of spending my life as a writer.

We try to guide with a light touch. Sometimes we can be helpful, and my goal with my team, both on the series side and on the film side, is that the collaboration should always be invited. In other words, we're not looking to impose our view on the filmmaker; we hire a storyteller because we love the story, and we love their ability to tell it.

I was always a storyteller. I just didn't know it. I never shared the stories I made up inside my head when I was growing up. I never wrote them down, either. But I can't remember a time when they weren't there.

I really just want to be a writer and a storyteller. But maybe pain is one of the things you have to feel in order to be creative.