Telling Quote by Javier Marías

“All we are doing is telling each other things that can only be told by the rubbing together of two imperfect lumps of flesh.…

— Anonymous

I have to tell you, Arty, a screw up this early in the proceedings doesn’t exactly fill me with confidence. I hope you’re as…

— Eoin Colfer

She was not sorry. And if it was the wine telling her that, then she would tell the wine the same thing tomorrow. She…

— Mary Balogh

“Mr. Grote doesn’t believe in government telling him what to do. Tell the truth, he doesn’t believe in government at all. He has never…

— Christina Baker Kline

Any story that I can consider worth telling is one that you could tell in words.

— Ira Glass

I really said, 'Okay, this is just the right job for me. This is really what I need to be doing: telling stories through…

— Christopher Lennertz

That's the moment you look for as a writer, when the characters start telling you what they are doing rather than you telling them.

— Mike Bartlett

There's something exhilarating about telling stories that haven't been shared before and haven't been told publicly before. The last thing I want to be…

— Alex Kotlowitz

What a manager should be doing is telling his players what to do to make things better.

— Paul Mullin

I really like telling stories. When I was a kid, I wanted to write songs. In quite a fundamental, gratifying, childish way, I enjoy…

— Paul Bettany

Sometimes you have to stop telling folks about themselves and leave it up to them to figure out where they went wrong

— Danielle Lobbins

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