Telling stories Quotes · Page 5

I keep everything very simple. I like telling stories.

— Michael Fassbender

When modern writers gave up telling stories, they gave up the greatest thing we had.

— Howard Nemerov

I like telling stories of imperfect people because most people are imperfect.

— David S. Goyer

I love telling the stories that we tell. I love playing the characters that we play.

— Seth Rollins

“However it ends, at least you had a story to tell.”

— Jay Kristoff

“Popular music creates most impact in the telling of stories.”

— Lucy O'Brien

For me, playwriting is sharing my experiences, telling my stories.

— Lynn Nottage

Telling stories never fails to produce good in the universe.

— Mary Pipher

Data, I think, is one of the most powerful mechanisms for telling stories. I take a huge pile of data and I…

— Steven Levitt

I remember myself at 10 years old telling stories to my sisters and brother. This is something I did through my adolescence…

— Pedro Almodovar

“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

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

Ever since I can remember I was telling stories and had a huge interest in other people and what made them tick.

— Candace Bushnell

I am interested in people. I'm interested in telling stories, whether that is behind the camera or in front of the camera.

— Amanda de Cadenet

I love telling stories and acting and entertaining people. I don't want to make fun of people.

— Bob Saget

[ Gil Cates] said, "You've got a point of view with your magic. There's this comedy to it, there's drama. You're telling…

— David Copperfield

It's a director's job to tell a story and he's very well versed in telling stories with a bit of comedy in…

— Cuba Gooding, Jr

“I wonder if I am ever able to truly and especially in an honest matter able to describe what we all have…

— Ryan Gelpke

I love telling stories, but I also am more aware now of how complex reality is and how difficult it is to…

— Robyn

As I got older, my pops tried to keep me involved with the culture by telling me the stories of the conflict…

— Nipsey Hussle

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

I think that stories, and the telling of stories, are the foundations of human communication and understanding. If children all over the…

— Beeban Kidron

“I was left with a scar. I think telling stories is a way of putting a scar into words. Since not all…

— Brenda Lozano

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

“Philosophic thoughts allow people to use human reason and imagination to consider eternal matters and explore the ramifications of their own transience.…

— Kilroy J. Oldster

“Well, alright. Let’s see... Long ago, in the castle town of a kingdom far, far away, there lived a girl named Cinderella...”…

— Patora Fuyuhara

“the act of writing had led me through a swirl of memories that might otherwise have ended in paralysis or worse. By…

— Tim O'Brien

If I'm with my friends, and they'll be like, 'Oh, hey, where's your dad? Let's go say hi.' And I'll be like,…

— Jaden Smith

He loved telling stories. He had been everywhere in the world. The northwest frontier, the landscape of the Hindu Kush, was one…

— Sebastian Barry

Printed prose is historically a most peculiar, almost an aberrant way of telling stories, and by far the most inherently anesthetic: It…

— John Barth

I believe that telling our stories, first to ourselves and then to one another and the world, is a revolutionary act. It…

— Janet Mock

“The whole tradition of [oral] story telling is endangered by modern technology. Although telling stories is a very fundamental human attribute, to…

— Sara Maitland

In my family, telling stories is just a way of life.

— Helen Oyeyemi

“had an active social life and enjoyed telling stories”

— Frances Hodgson Burnett

The human race has been telling stories since it began.

— Doris Lessing

The movies aren't going anywhere, because telling stories is how people communicate.

— Ti West

Whether I'm telling stories in songs or if directing is the next step, being a storyteller is what I like doing.

— Kelly Jones

The healing that can grow out of the simple act of telling our stories is often quite remarkable.

— Susan Wittig Albert

We are, as a species, addicted to story. Even when the body goes to sleep, the mind stays up all night, telling…

— Jonathan Gottschall

I think telling stories is like pushing something. Pushing against uncreation itself, maybe.

— Stephen King