#storyteller

I wanted to hold onto and exploit the power of narrative. This is not only a book about a great storyteller, but there have to be stories about the storyteller. ↗

— Stephen Greenblatt

#book #exploit #great #hold #i

A storyteller is basically what actors and writers are. ↗

— Bruce Boxleitner

#storyteller #writers

Fundamentally, whether directing in the theatre or a film, you have to be a good storyteller, regardless of the form. The thing I had to work hardest at was thinking in shots. ↗

— John Crowley

#film #form #fundamentally #good #had

I come from a family of great readers and storytellers. ↗

— Katherine Dunn

#family #great #i #readers #storytellers

Painters were also attorneys, happy storytellers of anecdote, psychologists, botanists, zoologists, archaeologists, engineers, but there were no creative painters. ↗

— Kazimir Malevich

#anecdote #archaeologists #attorneys #creative #engineers

I don't view myself as a political leftie. I view myself as a storyteller who is fair to both sides. ↗

— Tim Robbins

#both sides #fair #i #myself #political

I don't mind UFO's and ghost stories, it's just that I tend to give value to the storyteller rather than to the story itself. ↗

— Robert Stack

#ghost stories #give #i #itself #just

The Gingerbread House has four walls, a roof, a door, a window, and a chimney. It is decorated with many sweet culinary delights on the outside. But on the inside there is nothing—only the bare gingerbread walls. It is not a real house—not until you decide to add a Gingerbread Room. That’s when the stories can move in. They will stay in residence for as long as you abstain from taking the first gingerbread bite. ↗

— Vera Nazarian

#gingerbread #gingerbread-house #holiday #holidays #house

Because storytelling, and visual storytelling, was put in the hands of everybody, and we have all now become storytellers. ↗

— LeVar Burton

#become #everybody #hands #now #put

If a nation loses its storytellers, it loses its childhood. ↗

— Peter Handke

#loses #nation #storytellers