I seem to enjoy telling stories with a central absence, with a lacuna tunnelled into them. — Junot Diaz Copy Share Image
The brain stays up all night telling stories while we sleep. We just call them dreams. — Jonathan Gottschall Copy Share Image
One mark of a second-rate mind is to be always telling stories. — Jean de la Bruyere Copy Share Image
It is futile to spend time telling stories about the fleetness of each day. — Dejan Stojanovic Copy Share Image
I like to create characters and worlds, and there's nothing like telling your own stories. — Andy Muschietti Copy Share Image
Slick Rick has always been one of those guys real good at telling stories. — Chamillionaire Copy Share Image
I want to contribute to the culture and keep great writers alive by telling the stories of their lives. — Fred Kaplan Copy Share Image
I mean, at the end of the day we're still telling stories and so we're just trying to stay focused on characters… — Ryan Fleck Copy Share Image
“This is what I liked most about my friends: just sitting around and telling stories. Window stories and mirror stories.” — John Green Copy Share Image
I just I love telling stories and as long as I can make my living doing that in all the different mediums… — John Buffalo Mailer Copy Share Image
I remain committed to telling the stories of women of the African diaspora, particularly those stories that don't often find their way… — Lynn Nottage Copy Share Image
“Do you really know yourself so well or are you making it up?' she asks. Some things I concoct, some I glean… — Erri De Luca Copy Share Image
Films are artifice. We're telling stories on film. At the same time, when it works, there is a real tough immediacy and… — Paul McGann Copy Share Image
“Whenever we share a personal story with other people, we provide an enchanting testament that illustrates the distinctive tinting of our estranged… — Kilroy J. Oldster Copy Share Image
“I was left with a scar. I think telling stories is a way of putting a scar into words. Since not all… — Brenda Lozano Copy Share Image
I want to continue to make beautiful movies. The most important thing is to be a part of beautiful stories, that's all… — Melanie Laurent Copy Share Image
If I had not been successful as a director, then I'm sure I would still be telling stories. I would have continued… — Pedro Almodovar Copy Share Image
“Trawling through a dusty attic of my addled memory I found that I’d been rather in a lot of daft and amusing… — Guy Pratt Copy Share Image
“We withdraw from our experience of the present moment. We pull away from the raw feelings of fear and shame by incessantly… — Tara Brach Copy Share Image
I love telling stories. When people interview me live I'm totally forthcoming about stories like that - as long as it's not… — Debra Winger Copy Share Image
When a friend needs consoling, do not give in to the temptation of telling stories similar to theirs of disaster or bereavement.… — Giles Andreae Copy Share Image
Here's the weird thing about me. I was never one to tell you stories about me. I was always the guy who… — Bert Kreischer Copy Share Image
“We're all on our own, aren't we? That's what it boils down to. We come into this world on our own- in… — Lois Lowry Copy Share Image
Lyra learns to her great cost that fantasy isn’t enough. She has been lying all her life, telling stories to people, making… — Philip Pullman Copy Share Image
Confronted with the unhappy facts of exclusion, we sometimes reassure ourselves by telling stories: the poor boys who made it, theblacks who… — Kenneth Keniston Copy Share Image
The telling of stories, like singing and praying, would seem to be an almost ceremonial act, an ancient and necessary mode of… — David Abram Copy Share Image
I feel that I'm a spiritual person in that I feel like telling stories is a spiritual exercise and I think that… — Holly Hunter Copy Share Image
“Try not to pay attention to those who will try to make life miserable for you. There will be a lot of… — Joseph Brodsky Copy Share Image
There's something exhilarating about telling stories that haven't been shared before and haven't been told publicly before. The last thing I want… — Alex Kotlowitz Copy Share Image
“The library is a whispering post. You don't need to take a book off a shelf to know there is a voice… — Susan Orlean Copy Share Image
I like to be fulfilled in telling stories and in creating, but I'm just a curious person. — Jay Ellis Copy Share Image
Humans think in stories, and we try to make sense of the world by telling stories. — Yuval Noah Harari Copy Share Image
I love telling stories, and am almost entirely unable to keep a secret. — Ben Macintyre Copy Share Image
