{"quotes":[{"text":"For surely a king is first a man. And so it must follow that a king does as all men do: the best he can.","author":"Cameron Dokey","tags":["kings","men","shahrazad","storyteller"],"id":10154,"author_id":"Cameron+Dokey"},{"text":"They take their drama firsthand, in the real world, while I prefer the drama of fictional characters–in worlds where things happen for a reason, where questions are answered, where conflicts are always resolved.","author":"Kat O'Keeffe","tags":["booklover","books","conflict","drama","fiction","reading","reasons","stories","storyteller"],"id":29678,"author_id":"Kat+O%27Keeffe"},{"text":"At one point in your life you have to decide whether you want to become a sachem or a solitary.","author":"Akilnathan Logeswaran","tags":["grandchildren","life","live","sachem","solitary","solitude","story","storyteller"],"id":33523,"author_id":"Akilnathan+Logeswaran"},{"text":"That's what you would do with untold power? Eat cake?","author":"Desiree Williams","tags":["adventure","cake","food","magic","power","storyteller"],"id":39510,"author_id":"Desiree+Williams"},{"text":"I would travel far and wide...Seeing, listening, creating. I would weave tales for an enthralled audience. A song would be heard throughout the kingdom, and I would be a part of that. You would normally think that a bard would pick up his tales from stories heard in his travels or, perhaps, from personal observation of these events. Perhaps some bards would create the stories themselves or, at least, adapt the original versions heard... But what if the bard were really more than a bard? What if he were once a gallant knight or an old sea captain...Perhaps even a forgotten prince? What if the stories he told, what if the characters brought to life in his stories, were really of his comrades and himself? Stories from long ago that he finally wished to be heard? What if those who listened to his tales, all the while assuming that they were far disconnected from their communicator, were really listening to the narrative of a wanderer intimately connected to it all? And where would such an individual go when his final days as an “official” bard were spent? Perhaps he would decide to retire in a lighthouse. For, surely, no place would be more fitting for the hero emeritus. He would gaze upon the glorious sea in recollection...Guiding others with the beacon of light atop his home as he had once been shepherded. The adventurer became the storyteller...And then the Sentinel of the Sea.","author":"Gina Marinello-Sweeney","tags":["bard","hero","lighthouse","ocean","prince","sea","sea-captain","story","storyteller","storytelling"],"id":40648,"author_id":"Gina+Marinello-Sweeney"},{"text":"Well, at least this is what I told myself every day as I fell asleep with the fire still burning and the moon shining high up in the sky and my head spinning comforting from two bottles of wine, and I smiled with tears in my eyes because it was beautiful and so god damn sad and I did not know how to be one of those without the other.","author":"Charlotte Eriksson","tags":["asleep","beautiful","bottles","expat","eyes","gypsy","happy","hope","lost","moon","nomad","on-the-road","prose","road","sad","smile","spinning","story","storyteller","tears","the-road","tour","tour-life","travel","travel-essays","travel-poetry","traveller","tumblr-poet","vagabond","vagabonding","wanderer","wandering","wine","young"],"id":50213,"author_id":"Charlotte+Eriksson"},{"text":"Every poet — every storyteller — requires motivation.","author":"Andrew Pyper","tags":["poet","storyteller"],"id":61195,"author_id":"Andrew+Pyper"},{"text":"Our stories hold unique inspiration for one another.","author":"Lailah Gifty Akita","tags":["advice-for-daily-living","advice-for-writers","advice","advice-to-beginners","advice-to-daughter","caring-and-loving","caring-for-others","caring-heart-warming","caring-loved-one","caring","daily-life","daily-living","empathy","empowerment","encourage-yourself","encouragement-and-attitude","encouraging-and-empowering-girls","fulfilling-your-destiny","fulfilling-your-potential","giving-love","giving","humanity-advice","inspirational-life","inspirational","inspired-life","inspired","inspired-soul","inspiring-on-life","love-story","loving-kindness","loving-people","potential-for-greatness","potential","purpose-of-life","purpose","sharing-is-caring","sharing-life","sharing-pain","sharing","sharing-the-gospel","sharing-thoughts","sharing-your-gifts","story-of-my-life","storybook","storyteller","travel","uniqueness","wisdom","wise","wise-sayings","wise-words","writing-advice","writing-life","writing-philosophy","writing","your-journey","your-uniqueness"],"id":61312,"author_id":"Lailah+Gifty+Akita"},{"text":"Asking storytellers to be genuine is like, asking a chain smoker to quit smoking . Habit of lying isn't easy to fix. Pretend as believing is like selling cigarettes. What else we could do, if we want them to be in our lives...","author":"Heshan Udunuwara","tags":["lair","lying","storyteller","storytelling"],"id":65041,"author_id":"Heshan+Udunuwara"},{"text":"Once upon a time, there was a story. But no one to tell it.","author":"A.D.Y. Howle","tags":["once-upon-a-time","story","storyteller","storytelling","time"],"id":78579,"author_id":"A.D.Y.+Howle"}],"pagination":{"page":1,"page_size":10,"total":59,"pages":6,"next":"?page=2\u0026page_size=10"}}