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The narrator of a documentary often comes in at the last minute and takes some of the glory they don't deserve.
I wanted to do a collection where the narrator is constant throughout, so that there's a little unity.
All good storytellers are of necessity good writers - even if they may be poorly edited ones. Unfortunately, not all good writers are good storytellers.
In writing, the connection between storyteller and audience is just as important. By using some subtle devices, a narrator can reach out to the reader and say, 'We're in this together.'
Storytellers broaden our minds: engage, provoke, inspire, and ultimately, connect us.
This unceasing interplay between experience and narrative is a uniquely human attribute. We are the storytellers, the ones who put life into words.
A new writer starting out today, whether it's for TV or film, they have to remember that they're telling the story to themselves first of all, and they have to tell the story so that their life depends upon it.
I always have to remember that I am the narrator, but it doesn't have to be about me. A lot of songwriting is about trying to use what part of me is valid in telling the story. I don't want to overcook it, you know? Sometimes it seems that's really where the work is.
Storytellers are the keepers - we are the time keepers, the continuity keepers. We are the people who tell us who we are, where we've come from, and maybe even where we're going.
You are the storyteller, and this life is your story.
Writing is not about the voices in your head, but the voices that make the great leap to the page.
Narrators can make or break your audiobook experience. Make sure your read first. always remember who's voice you can stand and try to stick to these people other wise your will end up hating the book. 50shades worst narrator ever. wined the whole book. enjoyed it much more in my head
I have never done anything except write, but I don't possess the vocation or talents of a narrator, have no knowledge at all of the laws of dramatic composition, and if I have embarked upon this enterprise it is because I trust in the light shed by how much I have read in my life.
I'm starting to think my narrators' sentences are getting too big for them, and they are getting to sound a bit samey and, more disturbingly, a bit too much like me.
Characters to the Story,
There are two conversations going on at the same time: the story and a conversation about how the story is being told.
Writers, good ones, don't tell stories.
Characters show stories.
You know, as a writer, I'm more of a listener than a writer, cuz if I hear something I will write it down.
We are not only the tellers of our stories, we are the stories themselves.
A good storyteller is a person with a good memory and hopes other people haven't.
Author. Listener. Voice
Together, an exquisite journey.
I'm a storyteller; I write what I want to read.
Storytellers have as profound a purpose as any who are charged to guide and transform human lives. I knew it as an ancient discipline and vocation to which everyone is called.
Tell the story that's been growing in your heart, the characters you can't keep out of your head, the tale story that speaks to you, that pops into your head during your daily commute, that wakes you up in the morning.
I'm a storyteller - that's my chamber, that's my box. I'm always tryin' to give you the best story from our side of the table that you could really relate to quick. I understand where I wanna be at, but sometimes the production takes me where I need to go.
There are days when writing is within my power and a story unfolds along a course I've already chosen. And then there are days when the words breathe on their own and take me by the hand, leading me along unfathomed paths. Either way, the end result is this author's fairytale.
A writer is trying to create believable people in credible moving situations in the most moving way he can.
Good storytelling is harder than it sounds, but the easy part is that everyone has the ability to do it ... Tap into it.
I'm not trying as a writer to be smart or to understand the inner workings of my narrator, I'm trying to survive the typing of this story.
There are two distinct groups of people in the world: the ones who tell stories, and those who pay attention.
I'm just a storyteller.
A story isn't a good one unless it has a good listener
This is your story and you get to decide how it's written.
I think of myself as a storyteller, and that is it.
Who makes you Storyteller? You do. You are. Go play.
The writer must be a participant in the scene ... like a film director who writes his own scripts, does his own camera work, and somehow manages to film himself in action, as the protagonist or at least the main character.
Master storytellers like Jeffrey Archer and Arthur Hailey use simple language. But they manage to grab the attention of the readers right from page one. I'll consider myself a good storyteller the day people believe it's OK to be late for work or postpone deadlines just to finish reading my book.
The truth is, I hate not being the first person narrator all the way through! To paraphrase David Copperfield, I don't know whether I'm the hero or the victim of this tale. But either way, shouldn't I dominate it?
The storyteller has the power to make people feel good or bad about themselves. The storyteller has the
You can't be a storyteller and a speechwriter at the same time.
One of the fun things about unreliable narrators is they can be funny. You can admire things about them and laugh with them.
I wanted to write a voice that for me, as a reader, had been missing from the chorus: the voice of an angry woman.
I think of myself as the eyes and ears and voice of the reader.
You are the protagonist and author of your life's story.
What is most important to me is that my narrator's voice is believable, and that, though it is clearly an absolute fiction, it has the emotional resonance of memoir.
The situation comes first ... the characters ... come next ... [then] begin to narrate ...
I see people sometimes who remind me of my narrators.
As a writer, I am just an actor in a play, telling a story that needs to be told.
The author: an imaginary person who writes real books.
A writer, like a cinematographer, manipulates the viewer's perspective on an ongoing story, with the verbal equivalent of camera angles and quick cuts.
The prose as such has to be singing the song the story is telling.
I don't write stories, I write characters.
I am definitely a storyteller, but probably not a traditional Storyteller.
Fundamentally, I think of myself as a storyteller, not a writer.
I very much like the idea of the unreliable narrator. Shaping my fictions as monologues - by introducing the "I" - allows me to be as unreliable as I like.
There are more people involved in telling a story than the writer.
The purpose of a storyteller is not to tell you how to think, but to give you questions to think upon.
I've always considered myself, at the end of the day, to be kind of a storyteller.
I like to think that I am telling a story rather than writing it.
Whatever you do in terms of telling a story, the most important thing that you can define is who you are.
Every writer has only one story to tell, and he has to find a way of telling it until the meaning becomes clearer and clearer, until the story becomes at once more narrow and larger, more and more precise, more and more reverberating.
I am a storyteller with my music. And my story, nobody gonna tell it for me.
People love talking about writers as storytellers, but I hate being called that: it suggests I got it from my grandmother or something, when my writing really comes out of silence. If a storyteller came up to me, I'd run away.
I have an idea for a story, and if the idea is going to work, then one of the characters steps forward, and I hear her voice telling the story. This is what has happened with all the books I've written in the first person.
Narration, after all, isn't just a literary function. It represents the human capacity to tell stories in such a manner that they yield meaning. Television replaced this concerted quest for meaning with a frantic pursuit of wonder.
Storytellers are the most powerful people on earth. They might not be the best paid-- but they are the most powerful. Storytellers have the power to move the human heart-- and there is no greater power on earth.
What a storyteller does is *see* more than most of us. We say he's making up his stories, but he - or better yet, *she* - watches more carefully, and then tells us what we would have seen ourselves if we'd just stopped to look.
-Leah said - to Nadine, although she was looking at Marjorie (pg 138)
A well-developed and versed character will write the story for you.
Bill is a fiction writer, but he writes in the first-person voice in a style that is tell-all confessional; in fact, his fiction sounds as much like a memoir as he can make it sound.
The writer is more servant than master of his story.
The role of the storyteller is to awaken the storyteller in others.
I am a writer, not a transcriber.
I don't look at myself as a writer; I am a storyteller.
For what is storytelling if not ideas brought full and whole to the inner eyes of those who listen?
Every fine story must leave in the mind of the sensitive reader an intangible residuum of pleasure, a cadence, a quality of voice that is exclusively the writer's own, individual, unique.
Telling a story is like sowing a seed - you always hope to see it become a beautiful tree, with firm roots and branches that soar up in the sky. But it is a peculiar sowing, for you will never know whether your seed sprouts or dies.
I was not a writer to begin with; I was a listener.
Listen to great storytellers; slowly, you will learn about voice, timing, tension, structure, climax - all the things you need to tell stories that will capture the imagination of your audience.
Whether I'm telling stories in songs or if directing is the next step, being a storyteller is what I like doing.
A writer's work is to witness things.
There are a lot of writers, but only one YOU.
she constantly shifts back and forth between her "literate" narrator's voice and a highly idiomatic black voice
every person is a story and therefore is a storyteller. Trouble is that many fear failure, so they never begin.
The music lets me see the story but the story doesn't let me write the words.
Most of our writers tend to be recorders.
I'm an interpreter of stories. When I perform it's like sitting down at my piano and telling fairy stories.
A storyteller, a displaced poet, will absorb reading differently.
I have the great privilege of being both witness and storyteller. Intimacy, trust and intuition guide my work.
Character and story are suggested by the voice in the words themselves.
There's always a version of me who is the narrator. And I make myself look better than other people.
I'm writing my book in fifth person, so every sentance starts out with: " I heard fron this guy who told somebody ..."
-Demetri Martin
The truth is, I'm a storyteller. And it scares me, because my training as an academic is that the more accessible you are and the more human you are, the less smart you are. It's a shame trigger for me to be honest.
The marketplace tells us that good, visceral storytelling has a place. But there are lots of questions about the format that stories take.
The storyteller is one who comes bearing a great and lasting gift.
I enjoy dramatic narration, of course, because I'm an actor and I started as an actor. But I love things that are a challenge, and I look forward to more work with that in the future. So there's always a sun coming up the following day for me.
My own words, when I am at work on a story, I hear too as they go, in the same voice that I hear when I read in books. When I write and the sound of it comes back to my ears, then I act to make changes. I have always trusted this voice.
In prose, leaps of logic can be made while the protagonist thinks about things and arrives at conclusions. Even with voiceover, there's no real way of having an inner voice without it taking over the entire story.
Writers are nothing more than borderline schizophrenics who are able to control the voices.
Most writers spend their lives standing a little apart from the crowd, watching and listening and hoping to catch that tiny hint of despair, that sliver of malice, that makes them think, 'Aha, here is the story.'
You don't need to be a poet, a performer, a writer, or a journalist to tell your story powerfully. You do, however, need to elevate your language in ways that will bring your story to life clearly and imaginatively for others.