Quotes on Storyteller

I'm a storyteller - that's the chief function of a director. And they're moving pictures, let's make 'em move!

My fiction may, now and again, illuminate aspects of the human condition, but I do not consciously set out to do so: I am a storyteller.

This is what we storytellers do. We restore order with imagination.

No storyteller has been able to dream up anything as fantastically unlikely as what really does happen in this mad Universe.

All stories, if continued far enough, end in death.

All the sweetness of religion is conveyed to the world by the hands of storytellers and image-makers. Without their fictions the truths of religion would for the multitude be neither intelligible nor even apprehensible; and the prophets would prophesy and the teachers teach in vain.

If you're going to have a story, have a big story, or none at all.

If history were taught in the form of stories, it would never be forgotten.

What did you put in the fire?" Kaladin said. "To make that special smoke?" "Nothing. It was just and ordinary fire." "But, I saw-" "What you saw belongs to you. A story doesn't live until it is imagined in someone's mind." "What does the story mean, then?" "It means what you want it to mean," Hoid said. "The purpose of a storyteller is not to tell you how to think , but to give you questions to think upon. Too often, we forget that.

The purpose of a storyteller is not to tell you how to think, but to give you questions to think upon.

We are lonesome animals. We spend all our life trying to be less lonesome. One of our ancient methods is to tell a story begging the listener to say — and to feel — "Yes, that’s the way it is, or at least that’s the way I feel it. You’re not as alone as you thought."

All stories teach, whether the storyteller intends them to or not. They teach the world we create. They teach the morality we live by. They teach it much more effectively than moral precepts and instructions.