Tanith Lee Quotes

We need the expressive arts, the ancient scribes, the storytellers, the priests.

Storytelling is an ancient and honorable act. An essential role to play in the community or tribe. It's one that I embrace wholeheartedly and have been fortunate enough to be rewarded for.

Myth must be kept alive. The people who can keep it alive are the artists of one kind or another.

That is to say, epic poetry has been invented many times and independently; but, as the needs which prompted the invention have been broadly similar, so the invention itself has been.

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

I think the more you understand myths, the more you understand the roots of our culture and the more things will resonate. Do you have to know them? No, but certainly it is nice to recognise how deeply these things are embedded in our literature, our art.

Folklore used to be passed by word of mouth, from one generation to the next; that's what makes it folklore, as opposed to, say, history, which is written down and stored in an archive.

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

Most of our history has been recorded orally. Among us Cherokee people we used to have people who were trained to listen at all meetings and then pass it on.

I am a storyteller, and I take great pride in the storytelling and a great joy.

I am a storyteller by trade.

I want to be remembered as a storyteller.

My mother was an oral storyteller. She would tell stories over and over again.

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

The earliest voice listened to by the nations in their infancy was the voice of the storyteller.

I love telling stories. I think of myself as a storyteller, and I don't feel bound by being just a singer or an actress. First, I'm a storyteller, and history is stories - the most compelling stories. There is a lot you can find out about yourself through knowing about history. I have always been attracted to things that are old. I have just always found such things interesting and compelling.

The job of a storyteller is to tell stories, and I have concentrated on that obligation.

I love storytelling. If you strip all the bits away, what you'll find at the center is a storyteller. As I warm to my career and love it more, I have a sense that storytelling is healing, in many ways. You can reach an audience and heal, and by heal, I mean entertain and provoke. It's a wonderful life.

I'm not a novelist, I'm a storyteller. There is no art in what I do, no mystique.

There have been great societies that did not use the wheel, but there have been no societies that did not tell stories.

I'm an old storyteller. I tell the story. It's about the story.

The greatest art in the world is the art of storytelling.

The earliest storytellers were magi, seers, bards, griots, shamans. They were, it would seem, old as time, and as terrifying to gaze upon as the mysteries with which they wrestled .. (they) helped the community live though one more darkness, with eyes wide open, and with hearts set alight.

Storytelling comes naturally to humans, but since we live in an unnatural world, we sometimes need a little help doing what we'd naturally do.

We keep each other alive with our stories. We need to share them, as much as we need to share food. We also require for our health the presence of good companions. One of the most extraordinary things about the land is that it knows this—and it compels language from some of us so that as a community we may converse about this or that place, and speak of the need.