“Telling a story is like playing a fiddle. No one want's to hear it when it's done badly” — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I would have loved to have heard a story like mine. I could have used it as an inspiration to get by. — Ilhan Omar Copy Share Image
We're all storytellers in this business, and I personally love to sit back and watch someone tell a story. If it's done… — Mike Flanagan Copy Share Image
“A story is like a painting, Sóli. It doesn’t have to look like what you see out the window.” — Barbara Kingsolver Copy Share Image
Don’t you think every face tells its own story? Like a book? More like a poem. If you study it long enough,… — Gail Tsukiyama Copy Share Image
The telling of a story, like virtually everything in this life, was always made all the easier by a cup of tea. — Alexander McCall Smith Copy Share Image
I Never Liked You. I think that's my best book. I think it works the best as a story, and I like… — Chester Brown Copy Share Image
Dress for the story that you’d like to have people know about you before you even open your mouth. — Rachel Roy Copy Share Image
You know, the process of making a documentary is one of discovery, and like writing a story, you follow a lead and… — William Shatner Copy Share Image
Everybody has a story. It's like families. You might not know who they are, might have lost them, but they exist all… — Diane Setterfield Copy Share Image
You know, sometimes I see a movie that is two people in a house, and I walk away from it thinking, God,… — Julio Torres Copy Share Image
I don't always, or even usually, read stories from beginning to end. I start anywhere and proceed in either direction. A story… — Alice Munro Copy Share Image
A story should be like a river, flowing and never stopping, your readers passengers on a boat, whirling downstream through constantly refreshing… — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
Some of the inspirations I had as far as following that story would be, like, say, "The Good, The Bad and The… — Quentin Tarantino Copy Share Image
Telling a story is like trying to eat grapes with a fork. It's always trying to get away from you. And if… — Brent Weeks Copy Share Image
I want the camerawork to fit the narrative and tell the story from the point of view of the character, but sometimes,… — Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu Copy Share Image
“But if it’s a story, even in my head, I must be telling it to someone. You don’t tell a story only… — Margaret Atwood Copy Share Image
I think that the way that I write stories is by instinct. You have some basic ideas - a character, or an… — Dan Chaon Copy Share Image
I don't beat at the details, but I do always keep in mind that anything that isn't A) moving the story forward… — Jim Shepard Copy Share Image
“Everybody has a story. It’s like families. You might not know who they are, might have lost them, but they exist all… — Diane Setterfield Copy Share Image
“A story is not like a road to follow … it's more like a house. You go inside and stay there for… — Alice Munro Copy Share Image
You could not tell a story like this. A story like this you could only feel. — Peter Carey Copy Share Image
When I write a story, it's not like I'm thinking about what I'm doing — Stephenie Meyer Copy Share Image
Any show I'm working on, I want the stories to always be about something, and to have the potential to be emotional.… — Jason Katims Copy Share Image
My love is to tell a story but I like stories that evolve from character, from the nature of the individuals involved. — David McCullough Copy Share Image
“So it begins, this story, like everything else—with a woman, and a city, and a little bit of luck.” — Gregory David Roberts Copy Share Image
If you're a fan of anything I do, I'm always telling a story. I'm into that - I like it when you… — Dave East Copy Share Image
“Read the story like you believe it, read with passion to your children. Encourage their imagination” — Ian Davies Copy Share Image
How I work is that I write a story I'd like to read. Then you fly to Paris or Sydney and the… — Michael Connelly Copy Share Image
When it comes to a love story, you're like, 'I've been in love before.' So it's closer to you than the other… — Emory Cohen Copy Share Image
