Telling stories Quotes · Page 8

“Marketing is the act of telling stories about the things we make—stories that sell and stories that spread.”

— Anonymous

I like telling stories, and I tell stories that interest me. It would be boring to have to go to nothing but…

— Anthony Bourdain

Basically, the system works to my disadvantage for no other reason than that I am a person of color, and I am…

— Justin Simien

I had been writing since I was pretty small, and I've always been telling these stories about doors and finding other worlds…

— Ransom Riggs

I love meeting new people and telling them about my stories and my projects that I am working on.

— Kim Kardashian

I get my ideas for books from my own kids and sometimes from other children. Often when I am telling stories I…

— Robert Munsch

I'm interested in telling stories that add up to more than the entertainment of the story. That's what does it for me.

— Bennett Miller

I love telling stories, that's it. I love it. That's the word I would choose to describe what I love the most.

— Jeff Probst

I work with writers whom I believe to be true storytellers. And because I'm a writer, I pay very keen attention to…

— Danai Gurira

I remember that - you know, I didnt receive a formal education. I was educated in the Montevideo cafe, in the cafes…

— Eduardo Galeano

The Marvel cinematic universe and the Marvel animation universe are things that are very true, in terms of the DNA of what…

— Jeph Loeb

Acting is so much fun. It is a different ball game and I want to concentrate on that at the moment. I'm…

— Britney Spears

“I didn't tell him that I'd put his awful stories in boxes and stacked them on a shelf at the back of…

— Lauren Wolk

The biggest and most important part of our childhood was making movies. Our whole drive in life was to do this for…

— Ross Duffer

“Tell your story. Don't try and tell the stories that other people can tell. Any starting writer starts out with other people's…

— Neil Gaiman

I've never seen a great military, political, or corporate leader who was not a great storyteller. Telling stories is a core competency…

— Bran Ferren

When there's so much left to do, why spend your time focusing on things you've already done, counting trophies or telling stories…

— Dave Grohl

I'd love the opportunity to continue to work in the U.S. with people I have always admired and I also want keep…

— Natalia Reyes

Obviously when it comes to the question of telling stories about other people's lives in a situation as political as South Africa,…

— Athol Fugard

Telling stories through songwriting has been my favorite thing to do for as long as I can remember.

— Olivia Rodrigo

You start as an audience member and create a world you're interested in, and then you move into the telling of those…

— Neil LaBute

I'm interested in telling stories about characters that are interesting and who are challenging in some way, one that will make you…

— Dee Rees

I really said, 'Okay, this is just the right job for me. This is really what I need to be doing: telling…

— Christopher Lennertz

People love telling their stories, even if they're very, very sad ones. People love to communicate and express.

— Virginia Williams

Despite the impression you may have from watching too much TV, movies are not about reproducing reality. They're about telling stories.

— Seth Shostak

I like telling stories about people with problems. I can't really put it much simpler than that.

— Steve Buscemi

As long as I could hold a pencil, I was drawing and telling stories and making jokes. I've just been lucky that…

— Alex Hirsch

There wasn't much as a kid that inspired me in what I did as an adult, but I was always very interested…

— George Lucas

As a kid, I was always the jokester. I was telling stories at dinner and trying to make people laugh.

— Wyck Godfrey

I love telling stories, telling jokes, making people laugh. Ive got no plans to stop doing it.

— David Alan Basche

I get quite disappointed that we're still telling stories that I think are problematic in terms of what they're saying about women.

— Romola Garai

Even in traditional filmmaking, you're always trying to find novel ways of telling stories, and this is different.

— Rick Heinrichs

& all your friends telling you stories that you often misinterpret and taint all the images of yo Mr Perfect

— Drake

My parents and I always put great emphasis on telling stories that appeal to a child's sense of humor.

— Mike Berenstain

My filmmaking really began with technology. It began through technology, not through telling stories, because my 8mm movie camera was the way…

— Steven Spielberg

Comedy, it's a way for me to keep my acting chops. It's like a free acting class, to get up in front…

— Gabrielle Dennis

Because Dickens and Dostoyevsky and Woody Guthrie were telling their stories much better than I ever could, I decided to stick to…

— Bob Dylan

Humans are pattern-seeking story-telling animals, and we are quite adept at telling stories about patterns, whether they exist or not.

— Michael Shermer

Anne Carson and Angela Carter are folks I hold close to my heart because they have such unique ways of telling stories.

— Lauren Mayberry

“Gaza Writes Back' provides conclusive evidence that telling stories is an act of life, that telling stories is resistance, and that telling…

— Refaat Alareer