#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

All directors are storytellers, so the motivation was to tell the story I wanted to tell. That's what I love. ↗

— Spike Lee

#i #i love #love #motivation #story

Directing a film was something I was yearning to do. I always wanted to see if I had the capacity to be a good storyteller. ↗

— Kevin Spacey

#capacity #directing #film #good #had

The son has always felt like he was a footnote in one of the stories the father tells. The father is an amazing storyteller and one of the tales that he tells is how he met his wife. ↗

— Danny DeVito

#amazing #father #felt #footnote #his

My grandmother was an unparalleled storyteller who gave me a preview of how life might turn out, and also fortified my empathy. ↗

— Chris Ware

#empathy #fortified #gave #grandmother #how

Read the folklore masters. Go to galleries. Walk in the woods. That's what you need to be an artist or storyteller. ↗

— Terri Windling

#folklore #galleries #go #masters #need

The first job I was offered was as an editorial assistant. I think it was the best thing for me, in terms of being a storyteller by nature, to have spent years being an editor because I learned so much from it. ↗

— Terri Windling

#because #being #best #editor #editorial

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

— Joshua Bell

#play #story #storyteller #telling #violin

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

— Katherine Dunn

#family #great #i #readers #storytellers

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. ↗

— Barry Levinson

#american #american family #became #began #break-up