#teller

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 come from a family of great readers and storytellers. ↗

— Katherine Dunn

#family #great #i #readers #storytellers

I'm not really a storyteller myself - I tend to get all tangled up when I try and tell stories. ↗

— Daniel Day-Lewis

#i #myself #really #stories #storyteller

Painters were also attorneys, happy storytellers of anecdote, psychologists, botanists, zoologists, archaeologists, engineers, but there were no creative painters. ↗

— Kazimir Malevich

#anecdote #archaeologists #attorneys #creative #engineers

Look, I'm just a storyteller. When I make a film, I never want the film to become a vehicle of social propaganda. ↗

— Norman Jewison

#film #i #just #look #make

One of the things that Teller and I are obsessed with, one of the reasons that we're in magic, is the difference between fantasy and reality. ↗

— Penn Jillette

#difference #fantasy #i #magic #obsessed

It wasn't success, because Teller and I, by the time Asparagus Valley got together - within a year, we had achieved all our goals. I mean, our goal was to earn our living doing exactly what we wanted. Which is many people's goal. ↗

— Penn Jillette

#asparagus #because #by the time #doing #earn

Teller and I worked Renaissance Festivals and street performing - actually more real, no kidding around, Philadelphia street performing than we did Renaissance Festivals. ↗

— Penn Jillette

#around #did #festivals #i #kidding

Trust the tale, not the teller. ↗

— David Knopfler

#teller #trust

A good writer is basically a story teller, not a scholar or a redeemer of mankind. ↗

— Isaac Bashevis Singer

#good #good writer #mankind #redeemer #scholar