#storyteller

When you play a violin piece, you are a storyteller, and you're telling a story. ↗

— Joshua Bell

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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. ↗

— Jackie Collins

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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

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

— Katherine Dunn

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It is an ancient need to be told stories. But the story needs a great storyteller. Thanks for all of it, Jo. ↗

— Alan Rickman

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Well, I think storytellers have always found murder a fascinating device. ↗

— Donna Tartt

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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. ↗

— Chinua Achebe

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Fundamentally, I think of myself as a storyteller, not a writer. ↗

— Tom Clancy

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

— Peter Handke

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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. ↗

— P. J. Harvey

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