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There wasn't much as a kid that inspired me in what I did as an adult, but I was always very interested in what motivates… — George Lucas
When modern writers gave up telling stories, they gave up the greatest thing we had. — Howard Nemerov
I've come to recognize what I call my 'inside interests.' Telling stories. And helping people tell their stories is a sort of interpersonal gardening. My… — Jane Pauley
I don't know the law, the kind of law of quantity and quality, but I think the opportunity of people being able to express themselves… — Keanu Reeves
My filmmaking really began with technology. It began through technology, not through telling stories, because my 8mm movie camera was the way into whatever I… — Steven Spielberg
I love telling stories. I love the intimacy between the writer and reader. When you write sketches it's over in two minutes. When you write… — David Walliams
I don't have a particular ambition in any medium. I just want to keep telling stories. If somebody pays me, also good. — Joss Whedon
People may think I'm trying something new by telling stories, but they're just jokes connected to give the illusion of stories. But really, I just… — Steven Wright
Facebook is really about communicating and telling stories... We think that people can really help spread awareness of organ donation and that they want to… — Mark Zuckerberg
I get quite disappointed that we're still telling stories that I think are problematic in terms of what they're saying about women. — Romola Garai
Humans are pattern-seeking story-telling animals, and we are quite adept at telling stories about patterns, whether they exist or not. — Michael Shermer
The contract between the author and the reader is a game. And the game . . . is one of the greatest invetions of Western… — Carlos Fuentes
....we ain't doing civil rights here. We just telling stories like they really happen. — Kathryn Stockett
Everybody is a story. When I was a child, people sat around kitchen tables and told their stories. We don't do that so much anymore.… — Rachel Naomi Remen
In some ways, I don’t feel as if I had a choice. Looking back at my childhood, even before I could read and write, I… — Shannon Hale
By telling stories, you objectify your own experience. You separate it from yourself. You pin down certain truths. You make up others. You start sometimes… — Tim O'Brien
That’s how people live, by telling stories. What’s the first thing a kid says when he learns how to talk? “Tell me a story.” That’s… — Jeffrey Eugenides
Lyra learns to her great cost that fantasy isn’t enough. She has been lying all her life, telling stories to people, making up fantasies, and… — Philip Pullman
You know," King said, "I'm not much good at telling stories. That sounds like a paradox, but it's not; it's the reason I write them… — Stephen King
I think telling stories is like pushing something. Pushing against uncreation itself, maybe. — Stephen King
The difference between hope and despair is a different way of telling stories from the same facts. — Alain de Botton
Children, only animals live entirely in the Here and Now. Only nature knows neither memory nor history. But man - let me offer you a… — Graham Swift
Here's the truth about telling stories with your life. It's going to sound like a great idea, and you're going to get excited about it,… — Donald Miller
And now you'll be telling stories of my coming back and they won't be false, and they won't be true but they'll be real — Mary Oliver
Listening to others does not mean you should sound like them; find your own voice by telling stories as authentically as possible. — Carmen Agra Deedy

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