#storyteller

By nature, a storyteller is a plagiarist. Everything one comes across--each incident, book, novel, life episode, story, person, news clip--is a coffee bean that will be crushed, ground up, mixed with a touch of cardamom, sometimes a tiny pinch of salt, boiled thrice with sugar, and served as a piping-hot tale. ↗

— Rabih Alameddine

#storytellers #life

Writing is a passion I have never understood, yet a storyteller is all I have ever wanted to be. ↗

— Ruth Park

#i #never #passion #storyteller #understood

Frank is such a great visual storyteller, that if you study his artwork you see that his Sin City books are already the best movies never seen on the big screen. ↗

— Robert Rodriguez

#artwork #best #big #big screen #books

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

— George Pelecanos

#storyteller #writing #death