“Life is a great Book. We are writing the history of our time.” — Lailah Gifty Akita Copy Share Image
“Good literature boils down to two things: How interesting is the story you are telling, and how interesting is your telling.” — Hillel F. Damron Copy Share Image
The prose as such has to be singing the song the story is telling. — Leonard Michaels Copy Share Image
Sometimes you don't find out why you needed to tell a story until you're telling it. — Misha Green Copy Share Image
“If the story you're telling, is the story you're telling, you're in deep shit.” — Robert McKee Copy Share Image
We're all story-telling creatures, and also I think that's the point about biography because the life is exemplary. — Rachel Holmes Copy Share Image
“I feel like I didn't earn these stories, I feel like they just happened to me.” — B.J. Novak Copy Share Image
I had a story-telling mother; she's written novels and short stories. So I feel like maybe I'm staying alive by telling tales. — Ayshay Copy Share Image
“The tale is, in large part, our capital. I was nourished on tales...when an old person dies, a whole library disappears.” — Simone Schwarz-Bart Copy Share Image
“Storytelling is our task with the next generation, and it starts with loving the story ourselves and telling it as though we… — Sarah Arthur Copy Share Image
I think it's a shame that something as creative and vital to the nature of the human species as story-telling is largely… — Piers Anthony Copy Share Image
Themes don't change very much in story telling, and I think each writer has his or her own territory; however, I think… — Min Jin Lee Copy Share Image
You get to crack the code of the play. You get to really pick at it and see, 'What is the story… — Phillipa Soo Copy Share Image
I certainly grew up seeing more movies and television than I read books, but when it came time to do the thing… — John Sayles Copy Share Image
In other parts of India, be it Telugu, Tamil, Malayalam, Kannada, the villain is celebrated as much as the hero, not only… — Nikitin Dheer Copy Share Image
I never troll for material. It simply presents itself, and is always unmistakable. This is why I want to roll my eyes… — Dani Shapiro Copy Share Image
The characters are telling you the story. I’m not telling you the story, they’re going to do it. If I do it… — George V. Higgins Copy Share Image
“The very act of story-telling, of arranging memory and invention according to the structure of the narrative, is by definition holy. We… — James Carroll Copy Share Image
I think that people have to have a story. When you tell a story, most people are not good storytellers because they… — Larry Winget Copy Share Image
With all the movies I've made about history, it's not really fun because you're trying to get it right. You've got history… — Steven Spielberg Copy Share Image
Personally I like the slow burn; I don't think there is anything wrong with it. When I think about the movies that… — Oren Peli Copy Share Image
I think that there is a real beauty to the live aspect of the theater, and the working with a director for… — Karen Allen Copy Share Image
Stories are our attempts to share our values & beliefs with the hopes that we may attract those who believe what we… — Simon Sinek Copy Share Image
I was always fascinated by the Torah, the Bible, in terms of story telling: heroes and villains, morality and flaws. There's no… — Nina Tassler Copy Share Image
“Someone once told me people write down stories because they would like to forget, and those who read are those who would… — John Zelazny 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
“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
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
“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
“Language is our identity tool and by using experience, observation, and imagination, we each discover the words that give voice to our… — Kilroy J. Oldster Copy Share Image
“Humans are a story telling species. Throughout history we have told stories to each other and ourselves as one of the ways… — Nathan Myhrvold Copy Share Image
“I believe that we need good tale-tellers now, as much as we did when the oral tradition was the only way that… — Alan Lee 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
You have to know the story that you're telling, and you have to know the tone in which the story is being… — Tyler Hoechlin Copy Share Image
Sometimes there's a disjoint between what works on the page and what works with visual story telling. — Duncan Jones Copy Share Image
