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

  Howard Hawks

  Movie, Inspiring, Moving

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• I write to tell stories. I believe that there a some professions in the world that will last forever: doctor or a nurse, teacher, builder and a storyteller. I write also to become myself, more so day by day. Writing is a way to shape out visible and invisible, in myself as well as in the world.

  Eppu Nuotio

  Teacher, Believe, Writing

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• Gilbert has established herself as a straight-up storyteller who dares us into adventures of worldly discovery, and this novel stands as a winning next act. “The Signature of All Things” is a bracing homage to the many natures of genius and the inevitable progress of ideas, in a world that reveals its best truths to the uncommonly patient minds.

  Barbara Kingsolver

  Truth, Adventure, Winning

  "The Botany of Desire" by Barbara Kingsolver, www.nytimes.com. September 26, 2013.

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• Each time, storytellers clothed the naked body of the myth in their own traditions, so that listeners could relate more easily to its deeper meaning.

  Joan D. Vinge

  Naked, Body, Tradition

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• Family love can be a bore, but only when you are hearing it, never when you are relating it to the ones who will be carrying it out for you. A family without a storyteller or two has no way to make sense out of their past and no way to get a sense of themselves.

  Frank Pittman

  Family, Past, Two

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• I'm not an artist. An artist makes an object. Me, it's not an object, I work in history, I'm a storyteller.

  Sebastiao Salgado

  Photography, Artist, Photographer

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• A storyteller makes up things to help other people; a liar makes up things to help himself.

  Daniel Wallace

  Liars, Helping Others, People

  Daniel Wallace (2014). “The Kings and Queens of Roam: A Novel”, p.244, Simon and Schuster

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• I have the great privilege of being both witness and storyteller. Intimacy, trust and intuition guide my work.

  Jim Goldberg

  Intuition, Privilege, Intimacy

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

  Joshua Bell

  Play, Stories, Pieces

  FaceBook post by Joshua Bell from Apr 08, 2015

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• Stories are the collective wisdom of everyone who has ever lived. Your job as a storyteller is not simply to entertain. Nor is it to be noticed for the way you turn a phrase. You have a very important job--one of the most important. Your job is to let people know that everyone shares their feelings--and that these feelings bind us. Your job is a healing art, and like all healers, you have a responsibility. Let people know they are not alone. You must make people understand that we are all the same.

  Brian McDonald

  Art, Jobs, Responsibility

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• The Nigerian storyteller Ben Okri says that ‘In a fractured age, when cynicism is god, here is a possible heresy: we live by stories, we also live in them. One way or another we are living the stories planted in us early or along the way, or we are also living the stories we planted — knowingly or unknowingly — in ourselves. We live stories that either give our lives meaning or negate it with meaninglessness. If we change the stories we live by, quite possibly we change our lives.’

  Ben Okri

  Giving, Age, Stories

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• In documentary films, you're a storyteller using found objects. You still have to have a story arc and all the elements that make a good story. It really helped me mature as a storyteller.

  Garth Stein

  Found Objects, Documentaries, Stories

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• The writer cannot be a mere storyteller; he cannot be a mere teacher; he cannot merely X-ray society’s weaknesses, its ills, its perils. He or she must be actively involved shaping its present and its future.

  Ken Saro-Wiwa

  Teacher, Rays, Weakness

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• Storytelling is ultimately a creative act of pattern recognition. Through characters, plot and setting, a writer creates places where previously invisible truths become visible. Or the storyteller posits a series of dots that the reader can connect.

  Douglas Coupland

  Character, Creative, Patterns

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• The storyteller is deep inside everyone of us. The story-maker is always with us. Let us suppose our world is attacked by war, by the horrors that we all of us easily imagine. Let us suppose floods wash through our cities, the seas rise . . . but the storyteller will be there, for it is our imaginations which shape us, keep us, create us - for good and for ill. It is our stories that will recreate us, when we are torn, hurt, even destroyed. It is the storyteller, the dream-maker, the myth-maker, that is our phoenix, that represents us at our best, and at our most creative.

  Doris Lessing

  Dream, Hurt, War

  "A hunger for books" by Doris Lessing, www.theguardian.com. December 8, 2007.

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• John Lane has long been recognized as one of the South's finest poets and memoirists. This debut establishes him as one of our finest novelists as well. His poet's eye for detail seamlessly merges with a born storyteller's gift for narrative. Fate Moreland's Widow gives voice to those who endured one of the most painful and neglected chapters in American history.

  Ron Rash

  Eye, Fate, Voice

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• By nature, a storyteller is a plagiarist. Everything one comes across - each incident, book, novel, life episode, story, person, news clip - is a coffee bean that will be crushed, ground up, mixed with a touch of cardamom, sometimes a tiny pinch of salt, boiled thrice with sugar, and served as a piping-hot tale.

  Rabih Alameddine

  Coffee, Book, Hot

  "The Blurb #11: A Fresh Eye" by Rabih Alameddine, therumpus.net. October 27, 2009.

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• Deeply affecting and compulsively readable, The Fifty-First State displays Lisa Borders' emotional acuity, first-rate skills as a storyteller, and profound empathy not only for her two compelling main characters but for an oft-neglected region and a disappearing way of life.

  Christopher Castellani

  Character, Emotional, Skills

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

  Spike Lee

  Motivational, Directors, Stories

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• For anyone who is: just keep writing. Keep reading. If you are meant to be a writer, a storyteller, it'll work itself out. You just keep feeding it your energy, and giving it that crucial chance to work itself out. By reading and writing.

  Robin McKinley

  Reading, Writing, Giving

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

  Robert A. Heinlein

  Dream, Science, Mad

  Robert A. Heinlein (1987). “Time Enough for Love”, p.41, Penguin

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• It is the storyteller who makes us what we are, who creates history. The storyteller creates the memory that the survivors must have - otherwise their surviving would have no meaning.

  Chinua Achebe

  Memories, Survivor, Surviving

  "Chinua Achebe and Nairobi Half Life" by Hayden Bixby, www.huffingtonpost.com. March 22, 2013.

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• Storytellers broaden our minds: engage, provoke, inspire, and ultimately, connect us.

  Robert Redford

  Weekend, Inspire, Mind

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• If a nation loses its storytellers, it loses its childhood.

  Peter Handke

  Writing, Design, Childhood

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• Cosmology is among the oldest subjects to captivate our species. And it’s no wonder. We’re storytellers, and what could be more grand than the story of creation?

  Brian Greene

  Stories, Wonder, Creation

  Brian Greene (2007). “The Fabric of the Cosmos: Space, Time, and the Texture of Reality”, p.14, Vintage

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