Story telling Quote by Stephen King

When you write a story, you’re telling yourself the story,” he said. “When you rewrite, your main job is taking out all the things…

— Stephen King

When you write you tell yourself a story. When you rewrite you take out everything that is NOT the story.

— Stephen King

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…

— Donald E. Westlake

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

“If the story you're telling, is the story you're telling, you're in deep shit.”

— Robert McKee

All I care about is the story and telling the story. I don't care how people ingest it.

— Steven Soderbergh

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

— Amanda Burton

I never think of an entire book at once. I always just start with a very small idea. In 'Holes,' I just began with…

— Louis Sachar

I think that people have to have a story. When you tell a story, most people are not good storytellers because they think it's…

— Larry Winget

“Humans are a story telling species. Throughout history we have told stories to each other and ourselves as one of the ways to understand…

— Nathan Myhrvold

The characters are telling you the story. I’m not telling you the story, they’re going to do it. If I do it right, you…

— George V. Higgins

“Stories continue in all directions to include even the retelling of the stories themselves, as legend is informed by interpretation, and interpretation is informed…

— Garth Stein