I've always been a fan of telling honest stories.

“Now that I thought about it, though, I realized that most people actually encourage you to turn bad. They seem to think that if…

— Natsume Soseki

I want to make honest music and tell honest stories that hopefully reflect the thoughts and feelings other people have.

— Steve Grand

“Evan Handler's unsparingly honest stories about life, love, and his own shortcomings are hilarious to read and oh, so easy (and fun!) to relate…

— Liz Tuccillo

If you're going to be in the business of news and telling people the truth... you've got to be honest. You've got to have…

— Don Lemon

When my sister and I were very young, my father used to tell us fairy stories that he'd made up. My mother was always…

— Nicolas Roeg

A significant number of women who have been ill or had marital issues feel they have no value, and society is so keen on…

— Susanne Bier

Manchester Youth theater, then the National Student Theater Company, and later, my degree course, all helped form my love of telling stories and directing.

— Justin Chadwick

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 like telling the story in a visual way. I don't like explaining a lot in dialogue.

— Sofia Coppola

Yeah I'm telling real stories, but if you pick up a documentary on strippers, you're going to want to see some stripping, so we…

— Method Man

In writing, I want to be remembered for telling good stories in beautiful and powerful language, using the poetry of words to reflect the…

— Kim Edwards

Each child’s story is worthy of telling. There shouldn’t be a sliding scale of death. The weight of it is crushing.

— Anderson Cooper

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

There have been many cases in which stars have come to us first to break the news because they knew the pressure was on.…

— Mary Hart