I like to think that I am telling a story rather than writing it. — Alistair MacLeod Copy Share Image
“Telling a story is like playing a fiddle. No one want's to hear it when it's done badly” — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Listening to someone telling a story & thinking: Lie, lie, lie, lie, lie, and lie. — Anonymous 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
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
I always want to make sure I'm telling a story about people that I care about. — Joss Whedon Copy Share Image
When you play a violin piece, you are a storyteller, and you're telling a story. — Joshua Bell Copy Share Image
Telling a story is an emotional and personal experience for me and I can't do without it. — Kanika Dhillon Copy Share Image
Phantom' was for me an interesting technique of telling the story. You have one voice that it is in the present telling… — Jo Nesbo 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
I usually make sure that my stories are from Africa or my own background so as to highlight the cultural background at… — Buchi Emecheta Copy Share Image
“In oral societies it is recognized that the telling of a story to a different audience or in a different context or… — Bart D. Ehrman Copy Share Image
When we cannot find a way of telling our story, our story tells us-we dream these stories, we develop symptoms, or we… — Stephen Grosz 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
Men have had every advantage of us in telling their own story. Education has been theirs in so much higher a degree;… — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
A story is ultimately a memory. It's important when you're telling a story to think about why this memory is a memory.… — Matt Besser Copy Share Image
I think it's just as viable a way of telling a story as anything else but for right now we like playing… — Todd Farmer Copy Share Image
People have suggested that perhaps we are too affluent to be telling this story, which is amazing to me because then I… — Paul Bettany Copy Share Image
“Nobody wants a sales pitch. So instead of trying a hard sell, focus on telling a story that captivates your audience by… — Ziad K. Abdelnour Copy Share Image
If your subject is crime, then you know at least that you're going to have a real story. If your subject is… — Donald E. Westlake Copy Share Image
I always knew from the beginning that this was the only way to write Then We Came To The End - that… — Joshua Ferris Copy Share Image
At the end of the day, it's all one version of telling a story. I treated this as if it was a… — Colin Farrell Copy Share Image
I'd thought I'd constructed a really wonderful book, and the teacher told me that my story basically began on page fifty, and… — Rich Ferguson Copy Share Image
Since each story presents its own technical problems, obviously one can't generalize about them on a two-times-two-equals-four basis. Finding the right form… — Truman Capote Copy Share Image
“As regards any specific book, I'm trying primarily to tell a story, in the most effective way I can think of, the… — William Faulkner Copy Share Image
“I’m allergic to abstraction. Especially in my first two books, I was telling the story of the transformation of urban America, especially… — Carlo Rotella Copy Share Image
I never wanted to be an actor. My dad was an actor, and he never brought joy home, so I didn't view… — Jane Fonda Copy Share Image
In fiction the narrator is a performance of voice, and it can be any style of voice, but I'm interested in the… — Ottessa Moshfegh Copy Share Image
“Don't you know that the less you tell someone, the more they want to know? You're better off to make something up… — Nora Roberts 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
“We’re all “storytellers.” We don’t call ourselves storytellers, but it’s what we do every day. Although we’ve been sharing stories for thousands… — Carmine Gallo Copy Share Image
I know that telling the story, there are certain events I want to skip, and certain events I want to hit. The… — Matthew Weiner Copy Share Image
