I don't think in terms of optimism and pessimism when writing a story. I am telling a story. — Doris Lessing Copy Share Image
Being an actor is an extension of telling a story and I loved story telling as a child. — Amanda Burton Copy Share Image
“Don’t you ever feel like you’re just a story someone is telling about someone like you?” — Catherynne M. Valente Copy Share Image
You have to find your tone and work within that to make it as real so the audience can really engage in… — Jeff Bridges Copy Share Image
It's only afterwards that it becomes anything like a story at all. When you're telling it, to yourself or to someone else. — Margaret Atwood Copy Share Image
“A book is not a battle, nor is it a conquest. A book is a story, and telling it should be an… — Rachel Aaron Copy Share Image
It's not what a person learns, but what story they're telling themself, that disorders their life. — Cv Pillay Copy Share Image
The most important thing is story-telling. It's as singular and old-fashioned as that. — David Soul Copy Share Image
“Writing is a tough business, but never forget the reason why you write. It’s for the love of story telling. Fame and… — R.L. Bartram Copy Share Image
I'm just trying to make the point that the story we're telling ourselves is often very different from the story we're telling… — Donald Miller Copy Share Image
“A central thesis then begins to emerge: man is in his actions and practice, as well as in his fictions, essentially a… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“It’s not the story-line that makes for good reading…but the storyteller. I believe Mark Twain could have filled out a credit application… — Rob Wood Copy Share Image
I wanted wherever possible to lean into the comic form and do things in the story telling that could only be done… — Arvind Ethan David Copy Share Image
Story is about pulling the reader in and a plot is a more externalized mechanism of revelation. A plot is more antic,… — Anne Enright Copy Share Image
I am fortunate enough to have worked on, and continue to work on, evolutionary movies in all formats from just simple good… — Mark Canton Copy Share Image
“When you write a story, you're telling yourself the story. When you rewrite, your main job is taking out all the things… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
“So what does story telling give a piece? Ultimately this is their brand. This is their story which makes them different from… — Julie Merrett Copy Share Image
Photojournalism is photography with more story telling. A single image can be amazing and dramatic. I started out shooting individual images, but… — Olivia Arthur Copy Share Image
“The worst of such stories is that the triumphant romancers can always be put to confusion and crushed by the very details… — Fyodor Dostoyevsky Copy Share Image
I tell the story to you now, but in each telling the story itself changes a little, changes direction, and that in… — Vera Nazarian Copy Share Image
“Stories continue in all directions to include even the retelling of the stories themselves, as legend is informed by interpretation, and interpretation… — Garth Stein Copy Share Image
“My mother had comforted me with tales ever since I was small. Sometimes they helped me peel a problem like an onion,… — Anita Amirrezvani 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
“How objects are handed on is all about story-telling. I am giving you this because I love you. Or because it was… — Edmund de Waal Copy Share Image
“I would like to believe this is a story I'm telling. I need to believe it. I must believe it. Those who… — Margaret Atwood Copy Share Image
“I love the way folktale and fantasy tap into the roots of story telling. The paradox, for me, is that by moving… — Guy Gavriel Kay Copy Share Image
When you hide another story in a story, that’s the story I am telling the children. — Maurice Sendak 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
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
“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
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
“I feel like I didn't earn these stories, I feel like they just happened to me.” — B.J. Novak 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
“If the story you're telling, is the story you're telling, you're in deep shit.” — Robert McKee 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
“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
It's important to tell the story you're telling in the right way, which might involve black people or people of whatever heritage… — Ethan Coen Copy Share Image
My music is just about story telling. I don't have much to say, and I'm not trying to change anyone's mind. I'm… — Sufjan Stevens Copy Share Image
“Whenever we share a personal story with other people, we provide an enchanting testament that illustrates the distinctive tinting of our estranged… — Kilroy J. Oldster Copy Share Image
