#teller

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

Anna took his hand to gauge the swelling. 'Let's at least put something cold around it. Frozen peas work pretty well.' 'Do I have to eat them?' 'No, you just have to inject them into a vein,' Anna said. ↗

— Antonia Michaelis

#abel-tannatek #antonia-michaelis #frozen-peas #funny #the-storyteller

In March of that year, I saw a man named Paul Barkley shot to death. It happened late at night in the parking lot of a café in Santa Rosa called Galileo’s. / Teller: A Novel ↗

— Frederick Weisel

#mystery #teller #weisel #death

The problem with escaping is that we leave behind us, even among those we love, different versions of the truth and everything we couldn’t bring ourselves to say. —Frederick Weisel, Teller: A Novel ↗

— Frederick Weisel

#frederick-weisel #love #teller #truth #weisel

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

— Donna Tartt

#device #fascinating #found #i #i think

Every American autobiography, someone once said, is about one thing—escape. Look into the frightened heart of an American life, and you’ll find a compulsion to flee—a seed planted in the national character at the start by those ships sailing out of Europe and landing on our shores. — Teller: A Novel ↗

— Frederick Weisel

#escape #frederick-weisel #teller #weisel #life

Sometimes we do terrible things to the ones we love just to see what harm we can cause. ↗

— Frederick Weisel

#harm #love #teller #weisel #love

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

— Joshua Bell

#play #story #storyteller #telling #violin

A storyteller is basically what actors and writers are. ↗

— Bruce Boxleitner

#storyteller #writers

I'm just a story teller. ↗