Storyteller Quotes

All stories have a curious and even dangerous power. They are manifestations of truth -- yours and mine. And truth is all at once the most wonderful yet terrifying thing in the world, which makes it nearly impossible to handle. It is such a great responsibility that it's best not to tell a story at all unless you know you can do it right. You must be very careful, or without knowing it you can change the world.

~ Vera Nazarian

I tell the story to you now, but in each telling the story itself changes a little, changes direction, and that in turn changes you and me. So be very careful not only in how you repeat it but in how you remember it, goslings. More often than you realize it, the world is shaped by two things -- stories told and the memories they leave behind.

~ Vera Nazarian

I am a storyteller and experience the bliss of writing.

~ Amy Leigh Mercree

Death is the sanction of everything the story-teller can tell. He has borrowed his authority from death.

~ Walter Benjamin

If you write then you are reborn because by writing about the moment, you can relive it for a second time.

~ Kamand Kojouri

If the storytellers told it true, all stories would end in death.

~ George Pelecanos

I doubt I was much of a storyteller, but I would have put that smile in my book. On page 104, right next to the image of the Ward. I would have written it on my heart. I would have proofread it a thousand times under a thousand moons until a thousand tears thoroughly rationalized what it meant to me. Each time for when I’d met the darkness, and then succumbed. The smile read “you can’t break me’”—bold and in italics.

~ Nadège Richards

I meet people and they become chapters in my stories.

~ Avijeet Das

We are all born as storytellers. Our inner voice tells the first story we ever hear.

~ Kamand Kojouri

Maybe stories choose how they are told and who tells them.

~ Kamand Kojouri

They take their drama firsthand, in the real world, while I prefer the drama of fictional characters–in worlds where things happen for a reason, where questions are answered, where conflicts are always resolved.

~ Kat O'keeffe

A story from beginning to end that might entertain, teach, or simply bore your listener. It's all in the delivery, my dear.He got a smug look on his face as he scooted his posterior deeper into the chair and took his pipe between his teeth. I'm just better at it than most.

~ Karen L Milstein

You know that when a utility company is going down the fantasy route, they are likely hiding some illegal activity that they are engaging in. Fabricating fictional stories to their government regulator is just one of the many illegal activities that they engage in.

~ Steven Magee

That's what you would do with untold power? Eat cake?

~ Desiree Williams

I am a storyteller, not a historian, and it's my ambition to create something compelling - something unputdownable and riveting - that chimes with the real history but is, in fact, fiction.

~ Sara Sheridan

This love is hard core. Let's make it soft porn.

~ Arzum Uzun

Our stories hold unique inspiration for one another.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

Your heart is like a great river after a long spell of rain, spilling over its banks. All signposts that once stood on the ground are gone, inundated and carried away by that rush of water. And still the rain beats down on the surface of the river. Every time you see a flood like that on the news you tell yourself: That’s it. That’s my heart.

~ Haruki Murakami

A good storyteller minces words to entertain or inspire the audience. The politicians and religious leaders do much the same, but for a different purpose - to turn otherwise normal people to nutcases.

~ Vinko Vrbanic

Tell your story to inspired other people to rise up and live their dreams.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

For surely a king is first a man. And so it must follow that a king does as all men do: the best he can.

~ Cameron Dokey

What was he? Storyteller and secretary and doer of odd jobs, neither Tizerkane nor delegate, just someone along for the dream.

~ Laini Taylor

Magic is a very beautiful mystery. Even the ages old magic effects still surprises the most modern men.

~ Amit Kalantri

Magicians and Mentalist predict the future because they create it.

~ Amit Kalantri

Magic is the most interesting art because people not necessarily want to learn to paint after they see a great painting, but they want to learn magic after they see a great magic effect.

~ Amit Kalantri

First rate magician perform first rate magic effects, second rate magician performs third rate magic effects.

~ Amit Kalantri

Your eyes, ears and mind are imperfect in front of magic.

~ Amit Kalantri

Magician is the best storyteller in the world.

~ Amit Kalantri

Think like magician, present like magician and perform like magician.

~ Amit Kalantri

Well, at least this is what I told myself every day as I fell asleep with the fire still burning and the moon shining high up in the sky and my head spinning comforting from two bottles of wine, and I smiled with tears in my eyes because it was beautiful and so god damn sad and I did not know how to be one of those without the other.

~ Charlotte Eriksson

Socially interacting with a storyteller can be a frustrating challenge because a portion of her awareness is constantly sorting through the details of a developing book. And while you may successfully engage in a meaningful conversation with her, an additional part of her mind is frantically sifting through descriptive lines to be used if ever she were to write this exchange down. The trouble with writers is that they are ALWAYS writing!

~ Richelle E. Goodrich

When we want mood experiences, we go to concerts or museums. When we want meaningful emotional experience, we go to the storyteller.

~ Robert Mckee

Growing a culture requires a good storyteller. Changing a culture requires a persuasive editor.

~ Ryan Lilly

A storyteller makes up things to help other people, a liar makes up things to help himself.

~ Daniel Wallace

It was entirely taken for granted that there wasn't any lying in our family, and I was advanced in adolescence before I realized that in plenty of homes where I played with schoolmates, and went to their parties, children lied to their parents and parents lied to their children and to each other. It took me a long time to realize that these very same everyday lies, and the stratagems and jokes and tricks and dares that went with them, were in fact the basis of the scenes I so well loved to hear about and hoped for and treasured in the conversation of adults. My instinct - the dramatic instinct - was to lead me, eventually, on the right track for a storyteller: the scene was full of hints, pointers, suggestions, and promises of things to find out and know about human beings.I had to grow up and learn to listen for the unspoken as well as the spoken - and to know a truth, I also had to recognize a lie.

~ Eudora Welty

Tell me a story. Be my storyteller.

~ Arzum Uzun

The novel comes from a long shamanic tradition wherein the shaman-storyteller himself is transformed, no longer storyteller but a character, an animal, a god, a goddess, or a natural force that is not his everyday identity. And these moments, when the characters come alive and the author disappears, take us into another world.

~ Hal Zina Bennett

Everyone has a story within them, let yours out.

~ C.j. Heath

I'll tell you a secret.Old storytellers never die.They disappear into their own story.

~ Vera Nazarian

The Gingerbread House has four walls, a roof, a door, a window, and a chimney. It is decorated with many sweet culinary delights on the outside.But on the inside there is nothing—only the bare gingerbread walls.It is not a real house—not until you decide to add a Gingerbread Room.That’s when the stories can move in.They will stay in residence for as long as you abstain from taking the first gingerbread bite.

~ Vera Nazarian