Algernon Blackwood Quotes

There is something in human beings that loves stories.

There might be a proper age to know how to tell a story, but there's no proper age to start telling them.

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

Storytelling has always been one of my great pleasures.

George Clinton is the best storyteller in the world.

No matter what you write, you actually can't help retelling a fairy tale somewhere along the way.

The great thing is to have been surrounded by stories all my life.

I don't want to be remembered as a writer. I would rather be remembered as a storyteller.

I like telling stories.

Neil Gaiman is a star. He constructs stories like some demented cook might make a wedding cake, building layer upon layer, including all kinds of sweet and sour in the mix.

People need stories; they want stories. They always will.

I want to be remembered as a storyteller.

I never saw myself as much of a storyteller.

Fairy tales and folk tales are part of the DNA of all stories and great fun to write.

I've always been into having stories told to me. I was a voracious reader, my father was also a teller of tales; and the kind of Baron Munchausen proxy of a tall tale was much more interesting than a true tale.

And all who told it added something new, and all who heard it, made enlargements too.

I'm just a story teller.

I don't really believe in stories, only in the people who tell them.

I love fantasy. I grew up reading fantasy.

Apparently I'm well-known for my stories, my raconteur tales, that sort of thing.

A boy's story is the best that is ever told.

I'm fascinated with the stories that we tell. Real histories become fantasies and fairy tales, morality tales and fables. There's something interesting and funny and perverse about the way fairytale sometimes passes for history, for truth.

First of all, writing at best - certainly fiction writing - more and more I think is magic.

Everyone seems quite good at stories and making them up.

Throughout history, story telling was at the very beginning of life.