Everything can be ridiculous or tragic according to who is…

“All we are doing is telling each other things that can only be told by the rubbing together of two imperfect lumps of flesh.…

— Anonymous

I have to tell you, Arty, a screw up this early in the proceedings doesn’t exactly fill me with confidence. I hope you’re as…

— Eoin Colfer

She was not sorry. And if it was the wine telling her that, then she would tell the wine the same thing tomorrow. She…

— Mary Balogh

“Mr. Grote doesn’t believe in government telling him what to do. Tell the truth, he doesn’t believe in government at all. He has never…

— Christina Baker Kline

Any story that I can consider worth telling is one that you could tell in words.

— Ira Glass

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

— Christopher Lennertz

That's the moment you look for as a writer, when the characters start telling you what they are doing rather than you telling them.

— Mike Bartlett

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 to be…

— Alex Kotlowitz

What a manager should be doing is telling his players what to do to make things better.

— Paul Mullin

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

Sometimes you have to stop telling folks about themselves and leave it up to them to figure out where they went wrong

— Danielle Lobbins

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

If we accept being talked to any kind of a way, then we are telling ourselves we are not quite worth the best. And…

— Maya Angelou

When you put your hand on the Bible, you are saying something much stronger than just telling your peers that you're going to tell…

— Lee Greenwood