#teller

If the storytellers told it true, all stories would end in death. ↗

— George Pelecanos

#storyteller #writing #death

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

— Robert McKee

#emotion #experience #mood #museums #story

The difference between real life and a story is that life has significance, while a story must have meaning. The former is not always apparent, while the latter always has to be, before the end. ↗

— Vera Nazarian

#fiction #fictional #life #meaning #pattern

Madame, all stories, if continued far enough, end in death, and he is no true-story teller who would keep that from you. ↗

— Ernest Hemingway

#death #end #enough #far #keep

I am definitely a storyteller, but probably not a traditional Storyteller. ↗

— James Welch

#definitely #i #i am #probably #storyteller

Read the folklore masters. Go to galleries. Walk in the woods. That's what you need to be an artist or storyteller. ↗

— Terri Windling

#folklore #galleries #go #masters #need

The first job I was offered was as an editorial assistant. I think it was the best thing for me, in terms of being a storyteller by nature, to have spent years being an editor because I learned so much from it. ↗

— Terri Windling

#because #being #best #editor #editorial

I come from a family of great readers and storytellers. ↗

— Katherine Dunn

#family #great #i #readers #storytellers

The teller of a mirthful tale has latitude allowed him. We are content with less than absolute truth. ↗

— Charles Lamb

#absolute truth #allowed #content #him #latitude

What I find interesting about folklore is the dialogue it gives us with storytellers from centuries past. ↗

— Terri Windling

#centuries #dialogue #find #folklore #gives