I don't think in terms of optimism and pessimism when writing a story. I am telling a story. — Doris Lessing Copy Share Image
That awkward moment when you start telling a story & realize no one is listening so you slowly fade out & pretend… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
That moment when someone interrupts you while you are telling a story. 'Bitch, I'm talking, shut the fuck up.' — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I don't judge in my books. I don't have to have the antagonist get shot or the protagonist win. It's just how… — Elmore Leonard Copy Share Image
Swimming has been a very effective medium for telling a story about the state of our planet. — Lewis Gordon Pugh Copy Share Image
The way I'm used to telling a story is by looking through the viewfinder and being really close to the actors. — Reed Morano Copy Share Image
Telling a story is the way of exploring so many different things - human behavior, society, whatever existence. — Yorgos Lanthimos Copy Share Image
We have no filter for music, but we feel it when what's being spoken and sung is telling a story and evidencing… — Marc E. Platt Copy Share Image
When you're a writer and something difficult happens to you, one of the things involved in that is this emergence of narrative… — Leslie Jamison Copy Share Image
Writing for theatre is certainly different to writing an essay or any other kind of fiction or prose: it's physical. You're also… — Sam Shepard Copy Share Image
I think that when I'm telling a story, I'm doing the best I can to tell the story as fully as I… — Hilton Als Copy Share Image
I'm a sucker for gag reels and teaser trailers for new seasons. One of the great parts of panels, especially on a… — Jared Padalecki Copy Share Image
“The strange thing about Christianity was that it adopted an entirely different method. It transformed the lives of men not by appealing… — J. Gresham Machen Copy Share Image
I think that if you're serving yourself before you're serving a story then that's where you end up being not funny. It's… — Zooey Deschanel Copy Share Image
That's what people want to watch - somebody telling a story. So if you go in and tell a story that makes… — Shaun Sipos Copy Share Image
In some ways, the more that I write songs, the more I feel that telling a story is the most important thing;… — Rostam Batmanglij Copy Share Image
The writers I care about most and never grow tired of are: Shakespeare, Swift, Fielding, Dickens, Charles Reade, Flaubert and, among modern… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
I find it interesting that people often seem to believe that authors of realistic fiction are directly translating their personal experiences into… — Malinda Lo Copy Share Image
“In the end nothing matters but the work. You can’t control how it’s taken, and the act of telling a story always… — Patrick Somerville Copy Share Image
History is the art of making an argument about the past by telling a story accountable to evidence. In the writing of… — Jill Lepore Copy Share Image
Instead of telling a story about how great your brand is, try telling a story that shows you completely understand and empathize… — Lewis Howes Copy Share Image
I try my best to live by the principle that if you're going to be telling a story that you didn't live,… — Craig Mazin Copy Share Image
“A perception is not a story, and no amount of sensitivity can make a story-writer out of you if you just plain… — Flannery O'Connor Copy Share Image
History had its own way of explaining things. The way historians explain things is by telling a story. — Donald Kagan Copy Share Image
The key to performing a song isn't always about hitting the right notes, but about telling a story. — Megan McKenna Copy Share Image
When you're telling a story, I think you should tell it to its fullest, with reckless abandon, and absolutely let it be… — Kate Winslet Copy Share Image
Who doesn't want to be loved? That's the whole point. So, when you can get that from someone across the globe, for… — Charles Halford Copy Share Image
There's no better way to test a person than to put them in the middle of a war. That's clearly going to… — Steven Spielberg Copy Share Image
Irish music in the local pubs was my first exposure to musical expression, and I feel like Irish music is very close… — Rory O'Malley Copy Share Image
For me, there's a fine line between telling a story that's fictional with lots of details and then removing yourself too much… — Aimee Mann Copy Share Image
From a craft standpoint, telling a story in the first-person present tense over the course of 500 pages is a daunting challenge. — Joseph Boyden Copy Share Image
The idea of telling a story in reverse destabilises your ordinary moral reactions. That's one of the points of art - to… — Vincent Cassel Copy Share Image
I always wanted to do an animated movie. I find it to be incredibly liberating as a way of telling a story. — Gore Verbinski Copy Share Image
I think the most important thing when you're telling a story is to just tell the story as best as you possibly… — Andrea Riseborough Copy Share Image
My preference is for people who can do sketch comedy or situational comedy, where it's not a joke, but it's telling a… — Carol Burnett Copy Share Image
When I write I pretend I'm telling a story to someone in the room and I don't want them to get up… — James Patterson Copy Share Image
Both costume and fashion are about telling a story, except that in a ballet the story has already been written by the… — Raf Simons Copy Share Image
Telling a story about someone has enormous power. People forget a headline. They remember a story. — Michelle Dean Copy Share Image
What we portray on the ice is really important to us, and we love getting into character and telling a story. — Tessa Virtue Copy Share Image
It is up to the directors to take risks in telling a story and if they want to experiment, they should work… — Thiagarajan Kumararaja Copy Share Image
