Stories Quote by Alistair MacLeod

Story is about pulling the reader in and a plot is a more externalized mechanism of revelation. A plot is more antic, more performative,…

— Anne Enright

Telling a story of illness, one pulls a thread through a narrow opening flanked on one side by shame and the other by trivia.

— Susan Griffin

This is what I thought: for the most banal even to become an adventure, you must (and this is enough) begin to recount it.…

— Jean-Paul Sartre

“Like JJ Abrams,  creators just want to tell a story and entertain people. So why only focus in one way of telling it?Give readers…

— Anne-Rae Vasquez

Being an actor is an extension of telling a story and I loved story telling as a child.

— Amanda Burton

I am not interested only in telling a story, but I want to tell it my way. I don't want my accent, my temperament,…

— Haile Gerima

I always want to make sure I'm telling a story about people that I care about.

— Joss Whedon

If you're a fan of anything I do, I'm always telling a story. I'm into that - I like it when you don't know…

— Dave East

I have to go with what I do, and what I do has more to do with what people say to each other than…

— Tom Stoppard

“Funny though… and many of you know this… given a bit of slack, I’ll wander all over the place when telling a story.”

— Bob Hocking

That sad moment when you're telling a story but you realize nobody's listening to you.

— Anonymous

Listening to someone telling a story & thinking: Lie, lie, lie, lie, lie, and lie.

— Anonymous