“Don’t waste my time telling me who you are. Instead, use that time showing me.” — Craig D. Lounsbrough Copy Share Image
I'm so far gone that I'm telling the truth. It sounds like a foreign language. — Richard Peck Copy Share Image
My function as a writer is not story-telling but truth-telling: to make things plain. — Laura Riding Copy Share Image
I think I would have been a hopeless spy. I love telling stories and am almost entirely unable to keep a secret. — Ben Macintyre Copy Share Image
You can't just trust to luck; you have to really listen to what that character is telling you. — Estelle Parsons Copy Share Image
If the script is telling the story well, that is your inspiration, and you do not need to go somewhere else. — Tom Wilkinson Copy Share Image
The deepest failures any fiction writer is likely to have are failures of not quite comprehending the truth of the story that… — Richard Russo Copy Share Image
Until I came out, my acting was all about disguise, and thereafter it became about telling the truth. — Ian Mckellen Copy Share Image
If I have to go around telling everyone how great I am, then there's something wrong with my act. — Les Paul Copy Share Image
I really dont like the idea of people knowing what I am doing. I find telling everybody what you had for breakfast… — Jim Sturgess Copy Share Image
Telling someone you love them is not something you should be afraid of... It is what they say back that can change… — Nishan Panwar Copy Share Image
There is a kind of structure for a story that was peculiarly compelling for the radio. I thought I had invented it… — Ira Glass Copy Share Image
“Okay, you're telling the truth. By the way, Nick, you have the most screwed-up life. You're either boring as all get out,… — Sherrilyn Kenyon Copy Share Image
My dad hasn't said much about his college days. Oh, a few times, he might start telling stories. And I've seen some… — Andrew Luck Copy Share Image
“We delight in marvelous things. One proof of that is that everyone embellishes somewhat when telling a story in the assumption he… — Oliver Pötzsch Copy Share Image
When I was on a major label I felt obliged to say yes to every interview, tour and whatever else. The label… — Adam Ant Copy Share Image
I'm telling you this because I want you to know that I know something about you isn't right. You haven't fooled everybody.… — Becca Fitzpatrick Copy Share Image
It's the big question of every TV show, right, where you have these two people who it's clear the world wants to… — Patrick J. Adams 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
Most people don't get out of childhood, or adolescence, without being wounded for telling the truth. Someone says 'you can't say that'… — Adyashanti Copy Share Image
So here I am, sending a two-ounce mouse down into a dungeon with a sewing needle to save a human princess, and… — Kate DiCamillo Copy Share Image
Instead of my telling people what they should be doing, it makes more sense to be an inspiration to them. I'm not… — Fergie Copy Share Image
The ‘experimental’ writer, then, is simply following the story’s commands to the best of his human ability. The writer is not the… — Thomas Ligotti Copy Share Image
The happening and telling are very different things. This doesn’t mean that the story isn’t true, only that I honestly don’t know… — Karen Joy Fowler Copy Share Image
Any kind of sequence when you have to express physical space and time can be difficult to story-tell because, if you're sitting… — Patrick Fugit Copy Share Image
“The Gospels are full of testimonies of God’s power from eyewitnesses who saw Jesus heal the sick and raise the dead. … — Eric Irivuzumugabe Copy Share Image
The thing is, to try to talk about a performance that will never be seen again, that was only lived by the… — John Buffalo Mailer Copy Share Image
