Erin Morgenstern Quotes

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

I want to be remembered as a storyteller.

When I write I pretend I'm telling a story to someone in the room and I don't want them to get up until I'm finished.

As a storyteller, you have the story that you tell, and you have the way you can tell it, and both are equally important.

Storytelling has always been one of my great pleasures.

I love being a storyteller. I love telling stories.

I wanted always to be a storyteller of the fullest expression.

I never saw myself as much of a storyteller.

I guess I'm just inspired to tell stories.

In third or fourth grade, I loved to sign stories and monologues.

I guess I've always just been naturally inclined to tell stories.

I really love storytelling.

If I hadn't told stories, I would've been a historian.

My dad was such a great story-teller, a good teacher.

I'm a lover of film and storytelling. I believe that I was put on earth to tell stories, and I'm not interested in telling the same stories over and over and over again.

More than reading - much more than reading, in fact - I developed a love for telling stories from listening to two parents who really knew how to do it. And it really is an art.

I do love storytelling.

I love telling stories, and I'm a born storyteller. That's what I do, and that's what I want to continue to do.

George Clinton is the best storyteller in the world.

I just want to tell great stories.

A good storyteller can hold everybody captive without the special effects of Hollywood.

I think I wanted to be a storyteller because I had a very active dream life. My life was boring, and I dreamed about a life bigger than my own. I've always just been that person, from my earliest memories at age 2.

I always wanted to tell stories. From the time I had 20 cents or a quarter in my pocket, I could peddle my old Rambler 500 down to the corner store and buy comic books.

Literature is where I go to explore the highest and lowest places in human society and in the human spirit, where I hope to find not absolute truth but the truth of the tale, of the imagination and of the heart.

Storytelling is how we survive, when there's no feed, the story feeds something, it feeds the spirit, the imagination. I can't imagine life without stories, stories from my parents, my culture. Stories from other people's parents, their culture. That's how we learn from each other, it's the best way. That's why literature is so important, it connects us heart to heart.