Storytelling Profession Quotes

While I think storytelling is a meaningful way to spend your life... it does feel a little bit secondary or off-point.

Screenwriting and the movie stuff could all disappear tomorrow, but to sit down with my laptop and still tell stories is my day job. I didn't believe I'd actually get to do it for a living.

I think that having a job in journalism, despite all of the changes, is still a fantastic way to be - make a living observing your society and having a chance to use your voice.

A writer of story books! What kind of business in life-what mode of glorifying God, or being serviceable to mankind in his day and generation-may that be? Why, the degenerate fellow might as well have been a fiddler!

As a novelist, I tell stories and people give me money. Then financial planners tell me stories and I give them money.

Every commercial covers different ground, different ideas, and it's my profession to direct and to tell stories - for me, it's very organic.

I've always loved reading and always loved the movies. Storytelling is one of the oldest of human endeavors, and they give us our understanding of the world and our place in it. When I discovered that there were people who professionally were involved in the creation of stories, it was game over - I knew what I wanted to do it.

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