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I see myself as a storyteller, I don't mind if the story is fact or fiction, if it's a good story I'd like to tell it.
The purpose of a storyteller is not to tell you how to think, but to give you questions to think upon.
I'm a storyteller. I love to tell stories about brands. I love to tell stories, period. I like painting pictures through the words, and that's what I do.
I want to be seen as a good storyteller. I'm a manipulator as well.
When you boil it down, it's all a visual expression. In a sense we are all storytellers through what we wear, who we want to be, how we want people to perceive us. Life, people and the stories they consciously or unconsciously tell inspire me everyday.
I am a storyteller, for better and for worse. I suspect that a feeling for stories, for narrative, is a universal human disposition, going with our powers of language, consciousness of self, and autobiographical memory.
Fundamentally, I think of myself as a storyteller, not a writer.
The job of a storyteller is to speak the truth. But what we feel most deeply can't be spoken in words alone. At this level, only images connect. And here, story becomes symbol; symbol is myth. And myth is truth.
A man who invented his life story day after day.
Storytelling is ultimately a creative act of pattern recognition. Through characters, plot and setting, a writer creates places where previously invisible truths become visible. Or the storyteller posits a series of dots that the reader can connect.
Story is a medicine which strengthens and arights the individual and the community.
Storytelling is not what I do for a living - it is how I do all that I do while I am living.
I think that one of the things you have to do to become a storyteller is spend a lot of time reading stories.
A story can take you through a whole process of searching, seeking, confronting, through conflicts, and then to a resolution. As the storyteller and the listener, we go through a story together.
At the core, I'm a filmmaker and a storyteller.
The ultimate storyteller is Shakespeare, who was able to get the 'groundlings' to laugh at his bawdy humor and storylines but could still be studied by scholars to this day for the complexity of his language, meter, and symbolism. That's the real guy.
The truth is, I'm a storyteller. And it scares me, because my training as an academic is that the more accessible you are and the more human you are, the less smart you are. It's a shame trigger for me to be honest.
I think of myself in the oral tradition-as a troubadour, a village tale-teller,
the man in the shadows of the campfire. That's the way I'd like to be remembered-
as a storyteller. A good storyteller.
I love being a storyteller. I love telling stories.
I consider myself foremost a novelist with the intent of crafting stories that people will remember.
I'm a director's actor; I'm a storyteller's actor.
I'm an interpreter of stories. When I perform it's like sitting down at my piano and telling fairy stories.
I know I'm a storyteller at heart, and if there's a platform that needs stories, I'm going be there.
I'm a memoir writer. I try to understand the world by taking experiences I have and making them into a story, whether it's a narrative memoir, blogging for The Huffington Post, writing poems, or talking on the screen about what has happened to me and how that relates to the world at large.
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.
I'm not really a storyteller myself - I tend to get all tangled up when I try and tell stories.
Story guys are like life highlighters. Your life is all these big blocks of gray text, and then a story guy comes in with a big ol' paragraph of neon pink so that when you flip back through your life, you can stop and remember all the important and interesting places.
I am a story-teller working with a craft. My job is to use my craft - which is a different thing to my race - and tell a story well.
I am a storyteller with my music. And my story, nobody gonna tell it for me.
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.
Storytelling answers questions and solves mysteries.
We understand ourselves through stories, by making stories out of our lives. Storytellers give people structure with which they can begin to look at their own lives and try to make sense of them.
The best teachers are the best storytellers.
Who are you if nobody knows your story?
I approach stories as a private educational enterprise: I want to learn about something. I teach myself through research, reporting, and thinking, and then, when I feel like I know the story, I tell it to readers.
I'm an old storyteller. [When] I tell the story, it's about the story.
Jessica, who loves stories,
The storyteller makes no choice, soon you will not hear his voice, his job is to shed light, and not to master
Writers are storytellers. So are readers.
Modern storytellers are the descendants of an immense and ancient community of holy people, troubadours, bards, griots, cantadoras, cantors, traveling poets, bums, hags and crazy people.
If you remember the pleasure of hearing a story many times, and you will remember that while you were listening you become three people. There is an incredible fusion: you become the storyteller, the protagonist, and you remember yourself listening to the story.
I am an architect of words; there is no limit to the number of 'stories' I can create!
Story is a relationship between the teller and the listener, a responsibility. After the listening you become accountable for the sacred knowledge that has been shared.
I am not a storyteller ... not like the others. I only have one tale to tell.
Are you calling me a liar?" "I'm calling you a storyteller.
Storytelling is my currency. It's my only worth. The only thing of value I have in this life is my ability to tell a story, whether in print, orating, writing it down or having people acting it out.
Writing is a passion I have never understood, yet a storyteller is all I have ever wanted to be.
The opportunity to be a storyteller is the greatest thing in the world, and I feel so lucky and really love it.
I love storytelling.
A writer ... whittles at the words and phrases of today and makes of them forms to set the mind of tomorrow's generation.
I am a storyteller and a researcher, and I'm sorry the world has a hard time straddling the tension of those two things, but that's who I am.
A storyteller, a displaced poet, will absorb reading differently.
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.
A true storyteller is really good at writing himself into a corner and then finding a way out of that corner
After nourishment, shelter and companionship, stories are the thing we need most in the world.
In a story there is always a reader, and this reader is a fundamental ingredient not only of the process of storytelling but also of the tale itself. Today,
I had always felt life first as a story: and if there is a story there is a story-teller
Robert Louis Stevenson ... was a storyteller, that's what I'd like to be, that's what I'm trying to be
The most powerful person in the world is the story teller.
The storyteller sets the vision, values and agenda
of an entire generation that is to come.
Anyone can be a story. Everyone is.Story-- Johnny Rich
I'm a storyteller who uses all of the beauty and power of cinema to tell tales of human struggles for positive social change.
I am less comfortable saying I am a jeweller and more comfortable saying I am a story teller.
Magician is the best storyteller in the world.
He was a good storyteller, but he told the kind of stories that made children run away from the village and adults look for a length of rope and some soap.
Storytellers are a threat. They threaten all champions of control, they frighten usurpers of the right-to-freedom of the human spirit
in state, in church or mosque, in party congress, in the university or wherever.
Where do storytellers find the wisdom to discover their own stories? From no place more mysterious than their own hearts.
Story is the mother of us all. First we wrap our lives in language and then we act on who we say we are. We proceed from the word into the world and make a world based on our stories.
Journalist: A person with nothing on his mind and the power to express it.
The writer is editor, marketer, blogger, reader, thinker, designer, publisher, public speaker, budget-maker, contract reader, trouble-shooter, coffee-hound, liver-pickler, shame-farmer, god, devil, gibbering protozoa.
I am teaching. Storytelling is teaching.
If I'm not a writer, who am I?
Stories are equipment for living.
When you come from a family of storytellers, you're doomed. You just have to tell stories.
I love helping someone else tell their story, but I like being the storyteller sometimes.
I am, at the end of the day, a guy who loves story.
I tell stories. That's what I do. I've always told stories.
The making of stories is only one part of my craft -mainly, I'm a heart whisperer ...
I love telling stories, whether I'm the human instrument that helps tell that story, or I'm the man behind the curtain.
It is a law of the story-teller's art that he does not tell a story. It is the listener who tells it. The story-teller does but provide him with the stimuli.
I've always said I have one skill. That skill - if I have it at all - is storytelling.
I think of myself as a songwriter, a weaver of story and imagination in a way that a novelist might write a book.
Storytelling is my passion, and it rises from a love of reading.
What a storyteller does is *see* more than most of us. We say he's making up his stories, but he - or better yet, *she* - watches more carefully, and then tells us what we would have seen ourselves if we'd just stopped to look.
-Leah said - to Nadine, although she was looking at Marjorie (pg 138)
You are the protagonist and author of your life's story.
If you want to be more effective when sharing yourself and your work, you need to become a better storyteller.
I see myself as an explorer more than a storyteller. A great storyteller, in control of her craft, must be the same person when she finishes telling a story as she was at the start. But I want to be transformed by my filmmaking, by the journey I take.
Telling a story is like sowing a seed - you always hope to see it become a beautiful tree, with firm roots and branches that soar up in the sky. But it is a peculiar sowing, for you will never know whether your seed sprouts or dies.
An experienced, industrious, ambitious, and often quite often picturesque liar.
Storytellers are not priests who commune with an ethereal realm but artisans, like dumpling makers, if somewhat slower.
A good storyteller can hold everybody captive without the special effects of Hollywood.
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.
Who could ever tell a story complete?
Keeping imagination alive through the wonderful world of storytelling.
I'm not a natural storyteller at all. If anything, I'm a natural interviewer, a natural listener, but I'm not a natural storyteller.
Writer. Another word for poor.
I don't look at myself as a writer; I am a storyteller.
Even as an actor, I think like a storyteller. My parents raised us to look at the script.
I'm a storyteller; I write what I want to read.
Kids are always asked, What are you going to be when you grow up? I needed an answer. So instead of saying, a fireman, or a policeman, I said, a reporter.
I would describe myself as a writer that hopes to take you into my world and help you feel a little safer.