Sajid Nadiadwala Quotes

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

Storytelling is the important thing.

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

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

Humankind has been telling stories forever and will be telling stories forever.

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

The most important thing is story-telling. It's as singular and old-fashioned as that.

It sounds trite, but I like telling stories.

The human race has been telling stories since it began.

In Haiti, as I understand it, storytelling and history itself are not a business of necessarily elucidating facts or the truth of an incident, but finding the version that is most entertaining and therefore will get retold and live in immortality.

I want to be remembered as a storyteller.

Storytelling is essentially what we do.

All the truth in the world is held in stories.

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

Oral storytelling goes back so long ago, and those stories that were told orally were always layered and changed with time.

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.

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

I used to tell strange, wild, improbable tales akin to ghost stories, and discovered a taste for spinning yarns.

I think the story is the most ancient form of human entertainment.

Combine two words, Myth and History. What do you get? Mystery.

When modern writers gave up telling stories, they gave up the greatest thing we had.

The art of storytelling is reaching its end because the epic side of truth, wisdom, is dying out.

There's a great tradition in storytelling that's thousands of years old, telling stories about kings and their palaces, and that's really what I wanted to do.

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