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• Know the story before you fall in love with your first sentence. If you don’t know the story before you begin the story, what kind of a storyteller are you? Just an ordinary kind, just a mediocre kind – making it up as you go along, like a common liar.

  John Irving

  Falling In Love, Liars, Ordinary

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• A kid who has just started to lie is taking the first step as a storyteller.

  Young-Ha Kim

  Lying, Kids, Firsts

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• I learned to separate the story from the writing, probably the most important thing that any storyteller has to learn-that there are a thousand right ways to tell a story, and ten million wrong ones, and you're a lot more likely to find one of the latter than the former your first time through the tale.

  Orson Scott Card

  Writing, Important, Stories

  Orson Scott Card (2013). “The Ender Quintet”, p.20, Macmillan

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• The best teachers are the best storytellers.

  Frank Smith

  Teacher, Teaching, Inspirational Teacher

  Frank Smith (2014). “To Think: In Language, Learning and Education”, p.62, Routledge

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• 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.

  William Trevor

  Fiction, May, Aspect

  "William Trevor: the keen-eyed chronicler" by Tim Adams, www.theguardian.com. August 1, 2009.

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• I was always a filmmaker before I was anything else. If I was always anything, I was a storyteller, and it never really made much of a difference to me what medium I worked in.

  Nicholas Meyer

  Movie, Inspiring, Differences

  "Screenwriters on Screenwriting". Book by Joel Engel, 1995.

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• When we want mood experiences, we go to concerts or museums. When we want meaningful emotional experience, we go to the storyteller.

  Robert McKee

  Meaningful, Emotional, Museums

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• Never trust the storyteller. Only trust the story.

  Neil Gaiman

  Stories, Never Trust, Sandman

  "Fables & Reflections (The Sandman, Book 6)". Book sub-series by Neil Gaiman, August – October 1991, June – August 1992, June 1993.

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• I'm not a novelist, I'm a storyteller. There is no art in what I do, no mystique.

  Alistair Maclean

  Art, Novelists, Mystique

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• Take a brilliant, creative social scientist, without any respect for conventional wisdom and you get Ellen Langer. She is a fantastic storyteller, and Counterclockwise is a fascinating story about the unexpected ways in which our minds and bodies are connected.

  Dan Ariely

  Creative, Mind, Stories

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• Human beings have always told their histories and truths through parable and fable. We are inveterate storytellers.

  Beeban Kidron

  Motivation, Inspiration, Fables

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• My occupation is assistant storyteller. It is not "icon."

  Harrison Ford

  Icons, Occupation, Assistants

  "Letter from LA" by Anne Thompson, www.theguardian.com. July 27, 2003.

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• Growing up with three brothers and three sisters, I was the storyteller of the family... what my mother called 'The Liar.'

  James Rollins

  Mother, Brother, Growing Up

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• After all, it was only a story,' I said, determined to prove her wrong. 'All manner of terrible things may happen in a story. They may be startling at the time, but it passes. One gets caught up in the narrative, but the dangers aren't real, are they? Things happen in any way the storyteller chooses. It is all just made up.

  Chris Priestley

  Real, Stories, May

  Chris Priestley (2010). “Tales of Terror from the Tunnel's Mouth”, p.35, Bloomsbury Publishing

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• No, you're either born a writer, a storyteller, or you're not.

  John Milius

  Comeback, Born

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• The danger that keeps me just a little frightened with every book I write, however, is that I'll overreach myself once too often and try to write a story that I'm just plain not talented or skilful enough to write. That's the dilemma every storyteller faces. It is painful to fail. But it is far sadder when a storyteller stops wanting to try.

  Orson Scott Card

  Pain, Failure, Book

  "Speaker for the Dead". Book by Orson Scott Card, August 15, 1994.

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• The last few decades have belonged to a certain kind of person with a certain kind of mind-computer programmers who could crank code, lawyers who could craft contracts, MBAs who could crunch numbers. But the keys to the kingdom are changing hands.The future belongs to a very different kind of person with a very different kind of mind-creators and empathizers, pattern recognizers and meaning makers.These people-artists, inventors, designers, storytellers, caregivers, consolers, big picture thinkers-will now reap society's richest rewards and share its greatest joys.

  Daniel H. Pink

  Education, Creativity, Artist

  Daniel H. Pink (2006). “A Whole New Mind: Why Right-Brainers Will Rule the Future”, p.14, Penguin

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• Brands should think of themselves not as storytellers but storybuilders. We plant seeds of content and let our community build on it.

  Amy Pascal

  Wisdom, Thinking, Community

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• Story is morally neutral. It can express profound truth or propaganda. The two greatest political storytellers of the 20th Century were Winston Churchill and Adolph Hitler. Because storytelling is a form of persuasive jujitsu, and because world is full of black belt storytellers, the corporate leader has to train both his offensive and defensive moves

  Robert McKee

  Moving, Two, Profound

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• Acting is my first focus, but at the core, I'm a storyteller, and however that comes out is fine with me.

  Santino Fontana

  Focus, Acting, Firsts

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• Even as an actor, I think like a storyteller. My parents raised us to look at the script.

  Jake Gyllenhaal

  Thinking, Parent, Looks

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• Comedy and horror are cousins; they're related. They both come from storytellers who want to specifically affect the audience and elicit specific reactions during the movie.

  Jason Reitman

  Cousin, Want, Comedy

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• The way to start writing isn't by writing at all. But by living. It isn't about creating something from thin air, but about documenting our personal feelings about the things that we see. Or to put it crudely, how are you going to be a storyteller if you have no story to tell? Perhaps, in the end, there are no such things as creative people; they are only sharp observers with sensitive hearts.

  Yasmin Ahmad

  Writing, Heart, Air

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• I look at the human sciences as poetic sciences in which there is no objectivity, and I see film as not being objective, and cinema verite as a cinema of lies that depends on the art of telling yourself lies. If you’re a good storyteller then the lie is more true than reality, and if you’re a bad one, the truth is worse than a half lie.

  Jean Rouch

  Art, Lying, Reality

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

  Tom Clancy

  Memorable, Thinking

  FaceBook post by Tom Clancy from Feb 22, 2014

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