Response to a nurse, questioning him after a stroke in 1996: "Are you the famous Edward Teller?" — as quoted in Edward Teller and the Development of the Hydrogen Bomb (2001) by John Bankston, p. 9
Source: Peter Steele biography "Soul on fire" by Jeff Wagner, p. 209
“I am the teller of the tale, not the creator of the story.”
Attributed
“Truth-tellers are not always palatable.
There is a preference for candy bars.”
Gottschalk and the Grande Tarantelle (1988)
“A good writer is basically a story teller, not a scholar or a redeemer of mankind.”
“To write for others,’ she thought, ‘it seems one must be a spy—or a teller of tales.”
Source: Neveryóna (1983), Chapter 11, “Of Family Gatherings, Grammatology, More Models, and More Mysteries” (p. 313)
“As a story teller, Scott is unrivalled; he would have made the fortune of a cafe at Damascus.”
Literary Remains
Source: Illuminations: Essays and Reflections
Speech on receiving the Shakespeare Prize awarded by the University of Hamburg, Germany (1969)
