My preference is for people who can do sketch comedy or…

In a weird way, it's not different from any other kind of joke-telling. You make those calculations about jokes about celebrities: is this a…

— Michael Schur

That sad moment when you're telling a story but you realize nobody's listening to you.

— Anonymous

“Telling a story is like reaching into a granary full of wheat and drawing out a handful. There is always more to tell than…

— Wendell Berry

“Telling a story is like playing a fiddle. No one want's to hear it when it's done badly”

— Anonymous

At the end of the day, it's all one version of telling a story. I treated this as if it was a two million…

— Colin Farrell

The most important thing to realise is that everyone is capable of telling a story. It doesn't matter where we were born or how…

— Maeve Binchy

Being an actor is an extension of telling a story and I loved story telling as a child.

— Amanda Burton

Listening to someone telling a story & thinking: Lie, lie, lie, lie, lie, and lie.

— Anonymous

Everybody's got a different way of telling a story - and has different stories to tell.

— Keith Richards

I really like telling stories. When I was a kid, I wanted to write songs. In quite a fundamental, gratifying, childish way, I enjoy…

— Paul Bettany

This is what I thought: for the most banal even to become an adventure, you must (and this is enough) begin to recount it.…

— Jean-Paul Sartre

When you play a violin piece, you are a storyteller, and you're telling a story.

— Joshua Bell

Consciousness begins when brains acquire the power, the simple power I must add, of telling a story.

— Antonio Damasio

Telling a story of illness, one pulls a thread through a narrow opening flanked on one side by shame and the other by trivia.

— Susan Griffin

Story is about pulling the reader in and a plot is a more externalized mechanism of revelation. A plot is more antic, more performative,…

— Anne Enright