--- title: "8 Doing Story Quotes by 8 authors" description: "Browse 8 Doing Story quotes by 8 authors. Discover the best Doing Story sayings and thoughts." image: "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/e38/ashly-burch-23353_believe_for-narrative-games-and-also-for-the-sak_333184.jpg" --- > [For narrative games, and also for the sake of the medium, we have to treat performance that way, as actors. You have…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ashly-burch/for-narrative-games-and-also-for-the-sake-of-the-medium-we-have-to/) [Ashly Burch](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ashly-burch/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/e38/ashly-burch-23353_believe_for-narrative-games-and-also-for-the-sak_333184.jpg) > [Doing a story about my mundane, waking life, how much I don't like my job, or breaking up with someone, I don't…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jim-woodring/doing-a-story-about-my-mundane-waking-life-how-much-i-don-t-like-my/) [Jim Woodring](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jim-woodring/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/43e/jim-woodring-15923_interest_doing-a-story-about-my-mundane-waking-li_356891.png) > [Sometimes the music just has to tell the story without you trying to tell the story. It depends on the type of…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/tyga/sometimes-the-music-just-has-to-tell-the-story-without-you-trying-to/) [Tyga](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/tyga/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/599/tyga-579_beats_sometimes-the-music-just-has-to-tell-the_675347.jpg) > [I have often thought of doing a story with someone either as a human being or as a robot who, by a…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/roger-zelazny/i-have-often-thought-of-doing-a-story-with-someone-either-as-a-human/) [Roger Zelazny](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/roger-zelazny/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/f12/roger-zelazny-1604_end_i-have-often-thought-of-doing-a-story-wi_779508.png) > [The story fails but your faith in the importance of doing the story doesn't fail.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/alice-munro/the-story-fails-but-your-faith-in-the-importance-of-doing-the-story/) [Alice Munro](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/alice-munro/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/2d5/alice-munro-1231_failing_the-story-fails-but-your-faith-in-the-im_1975325.png) > [You didn't plan to write a story; it just happened. Well, it could be argued that the next thing you should do…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/george-saunders/you-didn-t-plan-to-write-a-story-it-just-happened-well-it-could-be/) [George Saunders](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/george-saunders/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/1b5/george-saunders-317_interesting_you-didn-t-plan-to-write-a-story-it-just_2079893.jpg) > [What I'm interested in doing in a story is bringing certain different languages, people, events together and then letting the reader make…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/grace-paley/what-i-m-interested-in-doing-in-a-story-is-bringing-certain-different/) [Grace Paley](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/grace-paley/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/c52/grace-paley-3243_books_what-i-m-interested-in-doing-in-a-story_2601309.jpg) > [A novel means a new way of doing a story](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/romesh-gunesekera/a-novel-means-a-new-way-of-doing-a-story/) [Romesh Gunesekera](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/romesh-gunesekera/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/2ac/romesh-gunesekera-48974_books_a-novel-means-a-new-way-of-doing-a-story_3163376.png) ```json { "@context": "https://schema.org", "@graph": [ { "@type": "ItemList", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/doing-story/#itemlist", "name": "Doing Story Quotes", "numberOfItems": 8, "itemListElement": [ { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 1, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "For narrative games, and also for the sake of the medium, we have to treat performance that way, as actors. 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