I don't like books that play to the gallery, but I've…

“convey the most powerful elements of your story clearly, succinctly and passionately”

— Michael Hauge

“The story was clearly over, as in juggling when the ball you throw up finds the moment to come down, hesitates as if it…

— E.L. Doctorow

You can tell a story clearly in the storyboards, but if you don't keep the correct focus in the animation, it can be ruined.

— Lee Unkrich

There are so many ways in which we learn about life and the self. Each day opens paths to this exploration. For many of…

— Ashley Bryan

If somebody can act out one of the books as a play, if they can see a play, film, or television show that's related,…

— Julie Andrews

“One of the advantages of reading books is that you get to play with someone else's imaginary friends, at all hours of the night.”

— Dr. SunWolf

During long car rides to the set, after I study my script, I go onto my iPad to read books and play games.

— Nolan Gould

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