When telling a story about how wasted you were last night…

Watch this haunted day turn into a wasted night.

— James Merrow

“The poet had wasted his night while others had spent it enjoying themselves and now he realised that it was lost forever. He only…

— Mikhail Bulgakov

So said I, I gotta comb my brain for the words to say, and if it don't feel right then it's a wasted night.

— The Ready Set

I'd say Rob Reiner's 'When Harry Met Sally' is my all-time favorite. It made me realize there's a way of telling a story where…

— Tim Story

“Funny though… and many of you know this… given a bit of slack, I’ll wander all over the place when telling a story.”

— Bob Hocking

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

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

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

I would make a genuinely terrible guide. I can't remember things. I would get half way through telling a story or explaining something and…

— Bill Bryson

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