Edwidge Danticat Quotes

I'm a yarn teller. My job is to engage you as much as I can and as often as I can.

Storytelling is the most powerful way to put ideas into the world today.

Entertainment is a great form of being able to tell a story and to spread a message.

Film is such a powerful medium. It can really affect change; you can affect so many different people in different ways.

I tell stories. That's what I do. I've always told stories.

One of the key qualities of all stories is that they are made to be shared.

I know how to tell a story to a thousand people. Sometimes I don't know how to tell a story to a piece of tape on a wall and a camera.

I'm not a natural storyteller at all. If anything, I'm a natural interviewer, a natural listener, but I'm not a natural storyteller.

People are affected by what they see, hear. This is what matters to me the most because then our job as actors is justified.

When I was little, I always used to like to tell stories cuz it was entertaining to people.

I think cinema has this beautiful component. It's a universal language.

I guess telling stories is an art. I never looked at it that way. I just started talking, and everyone started laughing. So I kept talking, and they kept laughing.

As a girl, I sat awestruck at the feet of Harriet Ne, author of 'Tales of Molokai'. It was she who used to say, 'I myself have seen it,' after telling a particularly hair-raising ghost story - a phrase that I borrowed for one of my titles.

Songs are more powerful than books.

Honestly, the essence of publishing hasn't changed. Since the days of the cave man carving stuff on the cave walls, people have wanted stories, and storytellers have wanted an audience. That is still the case. The changes are really a matter of format.

To be successful you have to convince the public.

The truth isn't the truth until people believe you, and they can't believe you if they don't know what your saying, and they can't know what you've saying if they don't listen to you, and they won't listen to you if you're not interesting, and you won't be interesting until you say things imaginatively, originally, freshly.

I remember seeing 'Dead Poet's Society,' and it made it appealing in a way that I actually went to prep school.

A documentary film is a great way of helping people understand because, somehow, when one is able to see the people involved, it lends a certain immediacy and understanding that is hard to get on the page.

I love telling people's stories.

I just love to share my story with people as much as I can.

I've wanted to be in daytime television for a long time, because that's where you can convey a message.

Every director knows it is his job to be manipulative. When you make an edit, you are trying to manipulate.

People expect me to be, first and foremost, a storyteller. I lead by telling stories.

I really love storytelling.