If a storyteller worried about the facts - my dear Lucian, how could he ever get at the truth?
That's what we storytellers do. We restore order with imagination. We instill hope again and again and again.
If you've seen my books through the years, I've always been a storyteller.
The storyteller is one who comes bearing a great and lasting gift.
I am an educationist. I'm an economist. I am a politician. I am also now a good storyteller, you know?
I come from a family of great readers and storytellers.
I've always been fascinated by the grassroots folktale level of a culture, and as a storyteller, I have to follow what seems to be leading me on.
Jobs' incredible skill was as a storyteller, a salesman. He could captivate our imaginations and reel us in. He was more P. T. Barnum than Thomas Edison.
I am not a storyteller. . . not like the others. I only have one tale to tell.
Storyboards are kind of inflexible, once you finish making them you have to stick to them. Since animation takes such a long time you become a slave to a storyboard that was created four years ago while as an artist and storyteller you change, you have new ideas.
Time is a wonderful storyteller.
Robert Louis Stevenson. . . was a storyteller, that's what I'd like to be, that's what I'm trying to be
To be a storyteller is to be able to speak truth, to be able to use your imagination, to use the creative gifts that the Creator has given you.
I am not a great prose stylist. I'm a storyteller. There are thousands of people who don't like what I do. Fortunately, there are millions who do.
I think I wanted to be a storyteller because I had a very active dream life. My life was boring, and I dreamed about a life bigger than my own. I've always just been that person, from my earliest memories at age 2.
Cher is really down-to-earth, very nurturing, incredibly funny and fun, a great storyteller, and creates a great environment on the set.
The earliest voice listened to by the nations in their infancy was the voice of the storyteller.
A good storyteller can hold everybody captive without the special effects of Hollywood.
I love storytelling. If you strip all the bits away, what you'll find at the center is a storyteller. As I warm to my career and love it more, I have a sense that storytelling is healing, in many ways. You can reach an audience and heal, and by heal, I mean entertain and provoke. It's a wonderful life.
The way to start writing isn't by writing at all. But by living. It isn't about creating something from thin air, but about documenting our personal feelings about the things that we see. Or to put it crudely, how are you going to be a storyteller if you have no story to tell? Perhaps, in the end, there are no such things as creative people; they are only sharp observers with sensitive hearts.