I love being a storyteller. I love telling stories.
Sometimes you have to go places with characters and emotions within yourself you don't want to do, but you have a duty to the story and as a storyteller to do it.
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 purpose of a storyteller is not to tell you how to think, but to give you questions to think upon.
I don't write fiction but I do write narrative; I write memoirs that I treat like stories, so whenever I'm using somebody I actually know as a model, I am submitting them to the agenda of a storyteller, and I feel free to do what I want.
The job of a storyteller is to tell stories, and I have concentrated on that obligation.
It is the storyteller who makes us what we are, who creates history. The storyteller creates the memory that the survivors must have - otherwise their surviving would have no meaning.
When you do The Work, you see who you are by seeing who you think other people are. Eventually you come to see that everything outside you is a reflection of your own thinking. You are the storyteller, the projector of all stories, and the world is the projected image of your thoughts.
I am an educationist. I'm an economist. I am a politician. I am also now a good storyteller, you know?
If a storyteller worried about the facts - my dear Lucian, how could he ever get at the truth?
As my contribution as an artist and a storyteller, I have to have some hope. I have to have some beacon of good at the end of it.
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.
The earliest voice listened to by the nations in their infancy was the voice of the storyteller.
A defeated nation is always explaining itself. That's why the best storytellers are always from vanquished nations.
A kid who has just started to lie is taking the first step as a storyteller.
I am essentially an entertainer and a storyteller.
As a writer, as a storyteller, you have to have your emotions close, and the older I've gotten, the less I've worried about not displaying emotions.
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.
The role of the storyteller is to awaken the storyteller in others.
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.