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title: "303 Telling Story Quotes by 274 authors"
description: "Browse 303 Telling Story quotes by 274 authors. Discover the best Telling Story sayings and thoughts."
image: "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/de8/gao-xingjian-6987_details_when-you-re-telling-a-story-you-ve-got-t_1816432.jpg"
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> [When you're telling a story, you've got to give details.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/gao-xingjian/when-you-re-telling-a-story-you-ve-got-to-give-details/)

[Gao Xingjian](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/gao-xingjian/)

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> [Truth is better than fiction in terms of telling the story.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/kristi-jacobson/truth-is-better-than-fiction-in-terms-of-telling-the-story/)

[Kristi Jacobson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/kristi-jacobson/)

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> [“The best way to teach people is by telling a story”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/kenneth-h-blanchard/the-best-way-to-teach-people-is-by-telling-a-story/)

[Kenneth H. Blanchard](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/kenneth-h-blanchard/)

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> [I'm telling the same story in every film.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/alejandro-gonzalez-inarritu/i-m-telling-the-same-story-in-every-film/)

[Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/alejandro-gonzalez-inarritu/)

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> [History depends on who is telling the story.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/james-o-shaughnessy/history-depends-on-who-is-telling-the-story/)

[James O'Shaughnessy](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/james-o-shaughnessy/)

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> [That energy and enthusiasm of telling a story is a different magic.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/pulkit-samrat/that-energy-and-enthusiasm-of-telling-a-story-is-a-different-magic/)

[Pulkit Samrat](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/pulkit-samrat/)

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> [I like to think that I am telling a story rather than writing it.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/alistair-macleod/i-like-to-think-that-i-am-telling-a-story-rather-than-writing-it/)

[Alistair MacLeod](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/alistair-macleod/)

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> [The first draft is just you telling yourself the story.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/terry-pratchett/the-first-draft-is-just-you-telling-yourself-the-story/)

[Terry Pratchett](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/terry-pratchett/)

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> [“Telling a story is like playing a fiddle. No one want's to hear it when it's done badly”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/anonymous/telling-a-story-is-like-playing-a-fiddle-no-one-want-s-to-hear-it/)

[Anonymous](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/anonymous/)

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> [Listening to someone telling a story & thinking: Lie, lie, lie, lie, lie, and lie.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/anonymous/listening-to-someone-telling-a-story-thinking-lie-lie-lie-lie-lie-and/)

[Anonymous](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/anonymous/)

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> [When you're telling a story, I think you should tell it to its fullest, with reckless abandon, and absolutely let it be…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/kate-winslet/when-you-re-telling-a-story-i-think-you-should-tell-it-to-its-fullest/)

[Kate Winslet](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/kate-winslet/)

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> [History had its own way of explaining things. The way historians explain things is by telling a story.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/donald-kagan/history-had-its-own-way-of-explaining-things-the-way-historians/)

[Donald Kagan](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/donald-kagan/)

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> [The key to performing a song isn't always about hitting the right notes, but about telling a story.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/megan-mckenna/the-key-to-performing-a-song-isn-t-always-about-hitting-the-right/)

[Megan McKenna](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/megan-mckenna/)

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> [I always want to make sure I'm telling a story about people that I care about.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/joss-whedon/i-always-want-to-make-sure-i-m-telling-a-story-about-people-that-i/)

[Joss Whedon](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/joss-whedon/)

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> [When you play a violin piece, you are a storyteller, and you're telling a story.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/joshua-bell/when-you-play-a-violin-piece-you-are-a-storyteller-and-you-re-telling/)

[Joshua Bell](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/joshua-bell/)

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> [Telling a story is an emotional and personal experience for me and I can't do without it.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/kanika-dhillon/telling-a-story-is-an-emotional-and-personal-experience-for-me-and-i/)

[Kanika Dhillon](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/kanika-dhillon/)

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> [Phantom' was for me an interesting technique of telling the story. You have one voice that it is in the present telling…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jo-nesbo/phantom-was-for-me-an-interesting-technique-of-telling-the-story-you/)

[Jo Nesbo](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jo-nesbo/)

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> [Who doesn't want to be loved? That's the whole point. So, when you can get that from someone across the globe, for…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/charles-halford/who-doesn-t-want-to-be-loved-that-s-the-whole-point-so-when-you-can/)

[Charles Halford](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/charles-halford/)

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> [I usually make sure that my stories are from Africa or my own background so as to highlight the cultural background at…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/buchi-emecheta/i-usually-make-sure-that-my-stories-are-from-africa-or-my-own/)

[Buchi Emecheta](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/buchi-emecheta/)

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> [“In oral societies it is recognized that the telling of a story to a different audience or in a different context or…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/bart-d-ehrman/in-oral-societies-it-is-recognized-that-the-telling-of-a-story-to-a/)

[Bart D. Ehrman](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/bart-d-ehrman/)

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> [When we cannot find a way of telling our story, our story tells us-we dream these stories, we develop symptoms, or we…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/stephen-grosz/when-we-cannot-find-a-way-of-telling-our-story-our-story-tells-us-we/)

[Stephen Grosz](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/stephen-grosz/)

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> [There's no better way to test a person than to put them in the middle of a war. That's clearly going to…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/steven-spielberg/there-s-no-better-way-to-test-a-person-than-to-put-them-in-the-middle/)

[Steven Spielberg](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/steven-spielberg/)

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> [Men have had every advantage of us in telling their own story. Education has been theirs in so much higher a degree;…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jane-austen/men-have-had-every-advantage-of-us-in-telling-their-own-story/)

[Jane Austen](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jane-austen/)

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> [A story is ultimately a memory. It's important when you're telling a story to think about why this memory is a memory.…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/matt-besser/a-story-is-ultimately-a-memory-it-s-important-when-you-re-telling-a/)

[Matt Besser](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/matt-besser/)

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> [I think it's just as viable a way of telling a story as anything else but for right now we like playing…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/todd-farmer/i-think-it-s-just-as-viable-a-way-of-telling-a-story-as-anything-else/)

[Todd Farmer](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/todd-farmer/)

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> [People have suggested that perhaps we are too affluent to be telling this story, which is amazing to me because then I…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/paul-bettany/people-have-suggested-that-perhaps-we-are-too-affluent-to-be-telling/)

[Paul Bettany](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/paul-bettany/)

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> [“Nobody wants a sales pitch. So instead of trying a hard sell, focus on telling a story that captivates your audience by…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ziad-k-abdelnour/nobody-wants-a-sales-pitch-so-instead-of-trying-a-hard-sell-focus-on/)

[Ziad K. Abdelnour](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ziad-k-abdelnour/)

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> [If your subject is crime, then you know at least that you're going to have a real story. If your subject is…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/donald-e-westlake/if-your-subject-is-crime-then-you-know-at-least-that-you-re-going-to/)

[Donald E. Westlake](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/donald-e-westlake/)

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> [I always knew from the beginning that this was the only way to write Then We Came To The End - that…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/joshua-ferris/i-always-knew-from-the-beginning-that-this-was-the-only-way-to-write/)

[Joshua Ferris](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/joshua-ferris/)

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> [At the end of the day, it's all one version of telling a story. I treated this as if it was a…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/colin-farrell/at-the-end-of-the-day-it-s-all-one-version-of-telling-a-story-i/)

[Colin Farrell](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/colin-farrell/)

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> [I'd thought I'd constructed a really wonderful book, and the teacher told me that my story basically began on page fifty, and…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/rich-ferguson/i-d-thought-i-d-constructed-a-really-wonderful-book-and-the-teacher/)

[Rich Ferguson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/rich-ferguson/)

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> [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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/truman-capote/since-each-story-presents-its-own-technical-problems-obviously-one/)

[Truman Capote](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/truman-capote/)

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> [“As regards any specific book, I'm trying primarily to tell a story, in the most effective way I can think of, the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/william-faulkner/as-regards-any-specific-book-i-m-trying-primarily-to-tell-a-story-in/)

[William Faulkner](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/william-faulkner/)

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> [“I’m allergic to abstraction. Especially in my first two books, I was telling the story of the transformation of urban America, especially…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/carlo-rotella/i-m-allergic-to-abstraction-especially-in-my-first-two-books-i-was/)

[Carlo Rotella](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/carlo-rotella/)

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> [I never wanted to be an actor. My dad was an actor, and he never brought joy home, so I didn't view…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jane-fonda/i-never-wanted-to-be-an-actor-my-dad-was-an-actor-and-he-never-2/)

[Jane Fonda](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jane-fonda/)

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> [In fiction the narrator is a performance of voice, and it can be any style of voice, but I'm interested in the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ottessa-moshfegh/in-fiction-the-narrator-is-a-performance-of-voice-and-it-can-be-any/)

[Ottessa Moshfegh](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ottessa-moshfegh/)

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> [“Don't you know that the less you tell someone, the more they want to know? You're better off to make something up…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/nora-roberts/don-t-you-know-that-the-less-you-tell-someone-the-more-they-want-to/)

[Nora Roberts](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/nora-roberts/)

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> [“Humans are a story telling species. Throughout history we have told stories to each other and ourselves as one of the ways…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/nathan-myhrvold/humans-are-a-story-telling-species-throughout-history-we-have-told/)

[Nathan Myhrvold](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/nathan-myhrvold/)

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> [“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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/carmine-gallo/we-re-all-storytellers-we-don-t-call-ourselves-storytellers-but-it-s/)

[Carmine Gallo](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/carmine-gallo/)

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> [I know that telling the story, there are certain events I want to skip, and certain events I want to hit. The…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/matthew-weiner/i-know-that-telling-the-story-there-are-certain-events-i-want-to-skip/)

[Matthew Weiner](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/matthew-weiner/)

[Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/502/matthew-weiner-12881_cartoon_i-know-that-telling-the-story-there-are_2650865.jpg)

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                        "text": "If your subject is crime, then you know at least that you're going to have a real story. If your subject is the maturing of a college boy, you may never stumble across a story while you're telling that. But if your story is a college boy dead in his dorm room, you know there's a story in there, someplace.",
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                        "text": "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 for your story is simply to realize the most natural way of telling the story. The test of whether or not a writer has defined the natural shape of his story is just this: After reading it, can you imagine it differently, or does it silence your imagination and seem to you absolute and final? As an orange is final. As an orange is something nature has made just right.",
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                        "text": "“As regards any specific book, I'm trying primarily to tell a story, in the most effective way I can think of, the most moving, the most exhaustive. But I think even that is incidental to what I am trying to do, taking my output ( the course of it) as a whole. I am telling the same story over and over, which is myself and the world…...I'm trying to say it all in one sentence, between one Cap and one period. I'm still trying to put it all, if possible on one pinhead. I don't know how to do it. All I know to do is to keep on trying in a new way……. life is a phenomenon but not a novelty, the same frantic steeplechase toward nothing everywhere and man stinks the same stink no matter where in time.”",
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                        "text": "“I’m allergic to abstraction. Especially in my first two books, I was telling the story of the transformation of urban America, especially in the so-called “rust belt,” and of the decline of the industrial city and the rise of post-industrialism. But I could only tell it as a series of locally inflected stories about particular characters at particular moments in particular landscapes. They are almost always creative characters: Writers, or musicians. These characters are often filled with some urge, and I am basically writing the biography of that urge. How does the urge to play the guitar find expression in certain styles, which are attached to certain institutions, and then to the city? (Source: article discusses \" The Art of Storytelling \" in The European.)”",
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                        "text": "In fiction the narrator is a performance of voice, and it can be any style of voice, but I'm interested in the ways that a voice that knows it's telling a story is actually telling a different story than it intends to. In the way that I can sit here and tell you what I had for breakfast, but I'm really telling you that I'm having an affair, something like that. And I don't think my writing is plain, but I think a lot of my characters are just talking. There is vulnerability there, in that we can start to see through them, we can start to see where they're deceiving themselves.",
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                        "text": "“Humans are a story telling species. Throughout history we have told stories to each other and ourselves as one of the ways to understand the world around us. Every culture has its creation myth for how the universe came to be, but the stories do not stop at the big picture view; other stories discuss every aspect of the world around us. We humans are chatterboxes and we just can't resist telling a story about just about everything. However compelling and entertaining these stories may be, they fall short of being explanations because in the end all they are is stories. For every story you can tell a different variation, or a different ending, without giving reason to choose between them. If you are skeptical or try to test the veracity of these stories you'll typically find most such stories wanting. One approach to this is forbid skeptical inquiry, branding it as heresy. This meme is so compelling that it was independently developed by cultures around the globes; it is the origin of religion—a set of stories about the world that must be accepted on faith, and never questioned.”",
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