#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

I'm just a storyteller. ↗

— Norman Jewison

#just #storyteller

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

#article #book #born #come #i

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

— Katherine Dunn

#family #great #i #readers #storytellers

That's the mark of a great storyteller, never to give away secrets in advance. ↗

— Ian McDiarmid

#away #give #great #mark #never

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

— Alan Rickman

#great #jo #need #needs #stories

On a practical level I'm a TV producer and storyteller who's gone about as long as you can go without achieving a mass audience. ↗

— David Simon

#achieving #audience #go #gone #i

My weakness consists in not having a discriminating eye for the incidental --- for the externals, --- no eye for the hod of the rag-picker or the fine linen of the next mean. Next man---that's it. I have met so many men." he pursued, with momentary sadness--- "met them too with a certain, certain impact, let us say; like this fellow, for instance--- and in each case all I could see was merely a human being. A confounded democratic quality of vision which may be better than total blindness, but has been of no advantage to me-- I can assure you. Men expect one to take into account their fine linen. But I never could get up any enthusiasm about these things. Oh! It's a failing; and then comes a soft evening; a lot of men too indolent for whist-- and a story...." [p.44] ↗

— Joseph Conrad

#naivety #point-of-view #storytellers #men

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

#story #storytellers #freedom

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