You can't be a serious writer of fiction unless you believe the story you are telling. — Norman Mailer Copy Share Image
Depending on the story that you're telling, you can be relatable to everybody or nobody. I try and tell everybody's story. — Chance the Rapper Copy Share Image
Whatever story you're telling, it will be more interesting if, at the end you add, "and then everything burst into flames. — Brian P. Cleary Copy Share Image
Each person's life is a story that is telling itself in the living. — William Throsby Bridges Copy Share Image
It's true of Irish Catholic families. They're big on story telling and big on saving stories from one generation to the next. — J. Courtney Sullivan Copy Share Image
You know there's some great folks, great story telling at 'Dateline,' and I'm glad to be a part of it. — Lester Holt Copy Share Image
Whatever story you're telling in Louisiana, the landscape is going to become a character in it. — Nic Pizzolatto Copy Share Image
Throughout history, story telling was at the very beginning of life. — Anthony Horowitz Copy Share Image
Folk tales are my favourite form of story telling. They not only just adjust the reader according to the world it is… — Shweta Basu Prasad Copy Share Image
It's not so much that I got that idea at some point, it came up naturally because of the improvisational nature of… — Chester Brown Copy Share Image
“[On Jason Mashak's “I Was Trained to See Shadows”, in his poetry book SALTY AS A LIP:] A nice bit of smooth,… — John Bennett Copy Share Image
“When you write a story, you're telling yourself the story. When you rewrite, your main job is taking out all the things… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
It's important to tell the story you're telling in the right way, which might involve black people or people of whatever heritage… — Ethan Coen Copy Share Image
“We all have our own stories. The story you tell about yourself, even if you only tell it to yourself, drives your… — Mani S. Sivasubramanian Copy Share Image
Fiction and non-fiction are only different techniques of story telling. For reasons I do not fully understand, fiction dances out of me.… — Arundhati Roy Copy Share Image
When you write a story, you’re telling yourself the story,” he said. “When you rewrite, your main job is taking out all… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
I tell the story to you now, but in each telling the story itself changes a little, changes direction, and that in… — Vera Nazarian Copy Share Image
“The worst of such stories is that the triumphant romancers can always be put to confusion and crushed by the very details… — Fyodor Dostoyevsky Copy Share Image
Photojournalism is photography with more story telling. A single image can be amazing and dramatic. I started out shooting individual images, but… — Olivia Arthur Copy Share Image
“Stories continue in all directions to include even the retelling of the stories themselves, as legend is informed by interpretation, and interpretation… — Garth Stein Copy Share Image
This is our story to tell. You’d think for all the reading I do, I would have thought about this before, but… — Jandy Nelson Copy Share Image
I decided to try drama for the attention and making my family laugh. There is no greater joy then hearing your parents… — David Schwimmer Copy Share Image
Part of the job is knowing how to use this medium in the most effective way for the story you're telling, so… — Alan Menken Copy Share Image
Audiences want great story telling; it's why white people watch my show 'Black in America.' It's why black people watch 'Latina in… — Soledad O'Brien Copy Share Image
“I'm also old... and my own gift for writing fantasy grows out of very literal-minded, pragmatic soil: the things I do when… — Robin McKinley Copy Share Image
What's your story? It's all in the telling. Stories are compasses and architecture; we navigate by them, and to be without a… — Rebecca Solnit Copy Share Image
“Thomas Builds-the-Fire's stories climbed into your clothes like sad, gave you itches that could not be scratched. If you repeated eve a… — Sherman Alexie Copy Share Image
“The life of the hero of the tale is, at the outset, overshadowed by bitter and hopeless struggles; one doubts that the… — Gyula Illyes Copy Share Image
“I love the way folktale and fantasy tap into the roots of story telling. The paradox, for me, is that by moving… — Guy Gavriel Kay Copy Share Image
“I would like to believe this is a story I'm telling. I need to believe it. I must believe it. Those who… — Margaret Atwood Copy Share Image
“What this amounts to, and what makes the critic with his nose for genre and structure so nervous, is that by all… — Edward Whittemore Copy Share Image
“The whole tradition of [oral] story telling is endangered by modern technology. Although telling stories is a very fundamental human attribute, to… — Sara Maitland Copy Share Image
“I say fuck the old advice 'show, don't tell.' It's called story TELLING for a reason, and I'll stick to it!” — Ashly Lorenzana Copy Share Image
The most important thing is story-telling. It's as singular and old-fashioned as that. — David Soul Copy Share Image
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