Isabel Allende
Novelist
"You are the storyteller of your own life, and you can create your own legend, or not."
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Storyteller
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Dave Allen
Comedian
"A good storyteller never lets the facts get in the way."
Walt Disney
Animator, Film Producer
"That's what we storytellers do. We restore order with imagination. We instill hope again and again and again."
Frank Smith
Author
"The best teachers are the best storytellers."
Chinua Achebe
Novelist, Poet
"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."
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"Writers are storytellers. So are readers."
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"A defeated nation is always explaining itself. That's why the best storytellers are always from vanquished nations."
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"At our most primitive we are storytellers and dancers."
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"I want to be seen as a good storyteller. I'm a manipulator as well."
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"I think of myself as a storyteller, and that is it."
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"This is what we storytellers do. We restore order with imagination."
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"The more you read, the better you're going to become as a storyteller."
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"I am a storyteller, and I do love ideas."
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"An old Apache storyteller reminds us"
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"Before we were born, a whole society of storytellers was already here. The storytellers who were here before us taught us how to be human."
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