“Life is a great Book. We are writing the history of our time.” — Lailah Gifty Akita Copy Share Image
It's true of Irish Catholic families. They're big on story telling and big on saving stories from one generation to the next. — J. Courtney Sullivan Copy Share Image
Each person's life is a story that is telling itself in the living. — William Throsby Bridges Copy Share Image
Whatever story you're telling, it will be more interesting if, at the end you add, "and then everything burst into flames. — Brian P. Cleary Copy Share Image
You know there's some great folks, great story telling at 'Dateline,' and I'm glad to be a part of it. — Lester Holt Copy Share Image
“I say fuck the old advice 'show, don't tell.' It's called story TELLING for a reason, and I'll stick to it!” — Ashly Lorenzana Copy Share Image
Whatever story you're telling in Louisiana, the landscape is going to become a character in it. — Nic Pizzolatto Copy Share Image
Throughout history, story telling was at the very beginning of life. — Anthony Horowitz Copy Share Image
I am a story-teller, and I look to academic research... for ways of augmenting story-telling. — Malcolm Gladwell Copy Share Image
We see everything from the narrator's point of view, so exposition about the world is limited to what impinges directly on him… — Neal Stephenson Copy Share Image
Animation offers a medium of story telling and visual entertainment which can bring pleasure and information to people of all ages everywhere… — Walt Disney Copy Share Image
Miss the audience's heart as a filmmaker, and the only wallet that gets hit will be your own. That's because the heart… — Peter Guber Copy Share Image
I've always felt that the comic strip medium stands equally beside all the other story telling mediums: novels, movies, stage plays, opera,… — Dave Gibbons Copy Share Image
When you write a story, you’re telling yourself the story,” he said. “When you rewrite, your main job is taking out all… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
“We all have our own stories. The story you tell about yourself, even if you only tell it to yourself, drives your… — Mani S. Sivasubramanian Copy Share Image
Fiction and non-fiction are only different techniques of story telling. For reasons I do not fully understand, fiction dances out of me.… — Arundhati Roy Copy Share Image
Good history is good story-telling. And good story-telling demands empathy; it requires understanding different actors, differing motivations, competing goals. — Ben Sasse Copy Share Image
I decided to try drama for the attention and making my family laugh. There is no greater joy then hearing your parents… — David Schwimmer Copy Share Image
People need to understand that what happens in people's homes and behind closed doors, unless you were there, you really shouldn't make… — Charlize Theron Copy Share Image
Audiences want great story telling; it's why white people watch my show 'Black in America.' It's why black people watch 'Latina in… — Soledad O'Brien Copy Share Image
Part of the job is knowing how to use this medium in the most effective way for the story you're telling, so… — Alan Menken Copy Share Image
This is our story to tell. You’d think for all the reading I do, I would have thought about this before, but… — Jandy Nelson Copy Share Image
Where the Truth Lies rating has a lot more to do with the political climate in America today than it does with… — Rachel Blanchard Copy Share Image
“What’s your story? It’s all in the telling. Stories are compasses and architecture; we navigate by them, we build our sanctuaries and… — Rebecca Solnit Copy Share Image
“Whatever the story means in the story which I told you, the fact of thinking in terms of stories does not isolate… — Cameron Adams Copy Share Image
“I'm also old... and my own gift for writing fantasy grows out of very literal-minded, pragmatic soil: the things I do when… — Robin McKinley Copy Share Image
What's your story? It's all in the telling. Stories are compasses and architecture; we navigate by them, and to be without a… — Rebecca Solnit Copy Share Image
“Life is a collection of memories and feelings. Mawkish sentimentally urges us to engage in artistic overtures, we yearn to share with… — Kilroy J. Oldster Copy Share Image
“There is a folk-tale about a shoemaker and his wife who were so poor that they had to send their many children… — Gyula Illyes Copy Share Image
“Thomas Builds-the-Fire's stories climbed into your clothes like sad, gave you itches that could not be scratched. If you repeated eve a… — Sherman Alexie Copy Share Image
“And now, O kind-hearted reader, I feel myself constrained, in the telling of this little story, to depart altogether from the principles… — Anthony Trollope Copy Share Image
“According to an ancient Chinese legend, one day in the year 240 B.C., Princess Si Ling-chi was sitting under a mulberry tree… — Jeffrey Eugenides Copy Share Image
Well, let’s start with the maxim that the best writing is understated, meaning it’s not full of flourishes and semaphores and tap… — Gene Weingarten Copy Share Image
