Quotes About Storytelling

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.

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 am not attempting to preserve culture, or record actual events or stories. Instead I bow my head in gratitude to those storytellers who have gone before and paved a way for me play in their stomping grounds. Doubtless those who want to be offended, will - allowing me to make them happy, too, which pleases me as much as it pleases them.

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.

Part of our job as storytellers is to show people pockets of the world that they don't know. The more we understand, the more we don't judge.

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

I love storytellers. When I was growing up, my inspirations were watching Eddie Murphy, Dennis Wolfberg, and Louie Anderson. These guys were great at telling stories, and I made that my own style, talking about things that happened to me and trying to make them funny.

Before we were born, a whole society of storytellers was already here. The storytellers who were here before us taught us how to be human.

Master storytellers like Jeffrey Archer and Arthur Hailey use simple language. But they manage to grab the attention of the readers right from page one. I'll consider myself a good storyteller the day people believe it's OK to be late for work or postpone deadlines just to finish reading my book.

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

As storytellers, you're always somehow creating history.

As storytellers, we tend to want to force-feed everything and have everybody understand everything right away, and we freak out if they don't.

Storytellers have the right to answer any question they choose.

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

The old storytellers took the stories that meant something to them and rearranged the pieces to say something.

I learned from the best storytellers in the world: Bill Withers, Stevie Wonder, Prince, Ne-Yo, Michael Jordan, Vin Diesel, RuPaul.

My favourite writers are always great storytellers, like Bruce Springsteen; I adore Bruce Springsteen. I feel like he doesn't beat around the bush, and he doesn't overcomplicate things. He puts things into layman's terms and tells stories that anyone can understand.

I grew up listening to the 60's and 70's... storytellers and poets.

I really latched on to announcers who were good storytellers.