When Slick Rick first hit the scene, I had to practice that British accent. There’s no other storyteller like this man.
I tend to write my beginnings and endings first – as a cartoonist and storyteller, I couldn’t sit down every day if I didn’t know where the story was headed.
It is an ancient need to be told stories. But the story needs a great storyteller. Thanks for all of it, Jo.
Bausch is a wonderful storyteller. He’s a mature writer who has a lot of confidence in the quality of character. He doesn’t need to hook you with a sneaky plot and zany characters.
I was a storyteller for The Band. It was never, ‘Hey guys, here’s a song about what happened to me.’ I was always more comfortable writing fiction.
To me, I’m a storyteller.
I owe my whole career as a storyteller to my father. He was an actor/director/producer and teacher.
I’ve always been a writer, I’ve always been a storyteller, but I never thought about screenwriting.
The great film editor is not a cutter, he’s a storyteller, right?
I’m not a gifted storyteller, so I write what I know and hope that honesty resonates with other people’s experiences.
My mother is the best storyteller. And her mother was too.
My desire as a storyteller is to always catch the readers off guard; to give them something they aren’t expecting, and take them in a direction that is satisfying in the here and non.
I think the last thing you want to do as a writer, as a storyteller, is to create indifference. I don’t necessarily go out of my way to provoke, but I would much rather have a song that triggers a whole myriad of reactions than a song that inspires a shrug of the shoulder.
When I got hurt, I wanted to develop my skills from a storytelling perspective, do the work, read books. Develop things. To be the storyteller for basketball, period.
I always say that I don’t believe I’m a chef. I try to be a storyteller.
I’m a storyteller, not a prophet. I’m just interested in a good story.
I didn’t know folk music growing up, no. It’s something I’ve come to study, really, because I think there’s so much to learn from traditional music in the sense of the way music began as a way of communication, the traveling storyteller, the bard, the minstrels.
Part of the responsibility of being a modern storyteller is understanding modern audiences and trusting what they can handle. It’s not just settling into what we think they want.
The thing I love about theater is the fact that everyone’s complicit. We’re either there as a storyteller, or we’re there as a listener, and it’s basically a campfire situation.
I’m a storyteller; that is what I do. And I’m particularly interested in history; and in history of a certain era. But what is interesting for me is how many, how many things you see repeated.
I’m going to call WWE like I call everything. Yes, I’m going to be passionate. Yes, I’m going to be excited, but at the same time, I’m hoping to get better as a storyteller, and I’m hoping to complement the people I work with who have been doing this a lot longer than I have.
I was always a storyteller. I just didn’t know it. I never shared the stories I made up inside my head when I was growing up. I never wrote them down, either. But I can’t remember a time when they weren’t there.
The power that you have as a storyteller is to be able to tell stories that are at once entertaining but also never lose sight of what’s going on in the real world.
I’m a storyteller. My whole family is storytellers. I’m just a product of my environment.
I don’t view myself as a political leftie. I view myself as a storyteller who is fair to both sides.
At the core, I’m a filmmaker and a storyteller.
I’m a rock climber, a high-altitude climber, an adventurer, a storyteller through my museums, and a writer of more than 50 books.
I realized that I’ve always been a storyteller.
I was never taken to a play or concert or church. Yet I was a show-off, a dreamer, a storyteller.
When I began to think about the head of the family, the storyteller, the rise of television which became the new storyteller, the break-up of the American family as an idea and then Avalon came.
I’m an assistant storyteller. It’s like being a waiter or a gas-station attendant, but I’m waiting on six million people a week, if I’m lucky.
