We tell ourselves stories in order to live.

For whatever reason, thus far it's been important to me not to write that kind of collection. Which means that I've spent months playing…

— Roy Kesey

“We tell ourselves stories in order to live. The princess is caged in the consulate. The man with the candy will lead the children…

— Joan Didion

We tell ourselves stories in order to live...We look for the sermon in the suicide, for the social or moral lesson in the murder…

— Joan Didion

The way we tell our stories on stage is that we use spoken word to convey action, and in movies, we use visual images…

— Tracy Letts

It's fun. I sit down every day and tell stories. Some folk would kill to get that chance.

— Bernard Cornwell

“so we had to tell our stories and they were stories.”

— Charles Bukowski

I guess I'm just inspired to tell stories.

— Frank Ocean

I did not get out, and all I had to do was tell myself stories and get invested, and I've never gone out of…

— Ethel Cain

Acting and making art is just something I love to do, and I love to tell stories that feel important, honest and necessary.

— Zoe Kravitz

Those of us with this ancient compulsion to tell stories sometimes start with a single kernel of something.

— Edward P. Jones

I have always wanted to tell stories. Even as a classical dancer, I revel in telling stories through my dance.

— Sobhita Dhulipala

This is my life - I want to tell stories. There is something huge inside me that pushes me to tell stories, and tell…

— Dario Argento

I always want to surprise audiences and tell stories that are entertaining and challenging at the same time.

— Fred Hechinger

I like to tell stories in my writing but I definitely use my own life experiences to tell that story.

— Snoh Aalegra

It's a great story for us whenever an entrepreneur makes a crazy amount of money and we get to tell the world about it.…

— Sarah Lacy