Story Telling Quotes: top 100 famous quotes about Story Telling

Story Telling Quotes & Sayings

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When you're telling a story, you've got to give details. — Gao Xingjian

There is only the actuality of what happens in life. The rest is just a story, no matter who's telling it. — Gary Crowley

The deepest failures any fiction writer is likely to have are failures of not quite comprehending the truth of the story that he or she is telling. — Richard Russo

I'll be at Lambeth telling my story — Gene Robinson

Everybody's got a different way of telling a story - and has different stories to tell. — Keith Richards

Whatever story you're telling in Louisiana, the landscape is going to become a character in it. — Nic Pizzolatto

Child,' said the Lion, 'I am telling you your story, not hers. No one is told any story but their own. — C.S. Lewis

Re-telling the Christian story is the essence of my vocation. That has been going on since the Evangelists in one form or another. — Anne Rice

I think not many young people are willing to pay the price of telling their own story. — Haile Gerima

When you write, you are telling a story ... to yourself. When you revise, you are telling a story to yourself ... over and over again. — Kai Strand

Marketing, when done well, is about story telling. — Evan Williams

Whatever you do in terms of telling a story, the most important thing that you can define is who you are. — John Patrick Shanley

We are not the originators of the story. I think it's actually the opposite when you're an actor. You're telling somebody else's story. — Jessica Lange

I don't think I have what it takes to make a good action game. I think I'm better at telling a story. — Hironobu Sakaguchi

America is a nation of prayer. It's impossible to tell the story of our nation without telling the story of people who pray. — George W. Bush

Wine is a story that gives birth to stories, and man, a story-telling animal. — Neel Burton

If you're telling a story it's always best not to play the ending. — John Hawkes

I always wanted to do an animated movie. I find it to be incredibly liberating as a way of telling a story. — Gore Verbinski

I'm telling the same story in every film. — Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu

I'm a filmmaker who is known for these ambiguous portraits that tell multiple sides of the story without really telling the audience what to think. — Joe Berlinger

I keep on having ideas and developments. Some happen and some don't, but I still always have a way of telling a story. — John Waters

Doesn't the telling of something always become a story? — Yann Martel

A book is not a battle, nor is it a conquest. A book is a story, and telling it should be an enjoyable exercise. — Rachel Aaron

Some people believe in telling stories. Some believe in doing things about which stories will be told in times to come. — Sharad Vivek Sagar

A man's story is worth telling only if the truth he discovers is greater than the pain that led him to seek it. — Alan Cohen

Entrepreneurship is about telling a story that connects the deep needs of a group of people with a repeatable solution. — Evan Baehr

Don't you ever feel
like you're just
a story someone is telling
about someone like you? — Catherynne M Valente

Good literature boils down to two things: How interesting is the story you are telling, and how interesting is your telling. — Hillel F. Damron

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

Many more people saw me on TV than will ever get to see me on stage, but I do love being in the same room as the people I'm telling the story to. — Tyne Daly

If you like the story then don't hold back in telling me about it, and if you don't then please keep your opinions to yourself! — Erle Stanley Gardner

Any story worth telling is worth embellishing. — Sputnik Monroe

History had its own way of explaining things. The way historians explain things is by telling a story. — Donald Kagan

If you want to know someone's story, they have to tell it aloud. But every time, the telling is a little but different. It's new, even to me. — Jodi Picoult

I have always believed that directing a film is like telling a story. You have to tell it well so that it is appreciated. — Anupam Kher

Not only is your story worth telling, but it can be told in words so painstakingly eloquent that it becomes a song. — Gloria Naylor

I wanted to tell a story that interested me as much in the telling as in the watching. — Neil LaBute

If you have something that people connect with, you want to keep telling that story and progressing forward. — Carlos Saldanha

They say a story loses something with each telling. — Cecelia Ahern

I say fuck the old advice 'show, don't tell.' It's called story TELLING for a reason, and I'll stick to it! — Ashly Lorenzana

If the script is telling the story well, that is your inspiration, and you do not need to go somewhere else. — Tom Wilkinson

Trust me, I'm telling you stories ... I can change the story. I am the story. — Jeanette Winterson

If you want somebody to tell you a story, one of the most easiest and effective ways is if you're telling them a story. — Ira Glass

If you aren't telling a good story, nobody thinks you died too soon; they just think you died. — Donald Miller

Trust the material; trust the story that you're telling. — Lesli Linka Glatter

As a writer, I am just an actor in a play, telling a story that needs to be told. — Rita Webb

A folklore study differs from most writing, in that the tale is told in the voice of the individual telling the story, not by the collector. — Karen Jones Gowen

I'm still interested in perfecting whatever talents I have and continuing to grow as an actor and continuing to be useful to the telling of the story. — Harrison Ford

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

I guess that is my favorite thing - to make people laugh and also to maybe engage them emotionally and touch them somehow in telling the story. — Lesley Nicol

I'm always pretending that I'm sitting across from somebody. I'm telling them a story and I don't want them to get up until it's finished — James Patterson

Whenever you think that your needs are not being met, you're telling the story of a future — Byron Katie

I was a young cat, and I was very fast, but I wasn't telling no kind of story. — Roy Eldridge

I suppose you could even argue that the very act of telling a story is an act of faith... — Kim Wright

A character wandering around asking, 'Who am I?' isn't, in and of itself, a story I'm interested in telling. — Greg Rucka

I'm an around-the-way girl. I'm a singer, songwriter. I'm about positivity and spreading a good message and telling the people's story. — Elle Varner

No love story worth telling is easy. The hills and valleys that make a relationship, in my opinion, is really a dynamic worth watching. — J.H. Wyman

( ... ) every story one chooses to tell is a kind of censorship, it prevents the telling of other tales ( ... ) — Salman Rushdie

When you play a violin piece, you are a storyteller, and you're telling a story. — Joshua Bell

Your first obligation as a writer is to tell the truth and to tell a good story. — Lena Waithe

All of my favourite albums have this incredible amount of conceptual glue to them, even if they are not telling a story. — Gerard Way

Design is an opportunity to continue telling the story, not just to sum everything up. — Tate Linden

Most of the pain we feel is nothing more than a story that needs telling. — Ashly Lorenzana

The telling of a good story, especially one that is real and true, is always exciting. — Aeriel Miranda

The first draft is just you telling yourself the story. — Terry Pratchett

Each child's story is worthy of telling. There shouldn't be a sliding scale of death. The weight of it is crushing. — Anderson Cooper

Because theatre is a story-telling art form, we feel entitled to assume that the playwright got there before we got there. — Tom Stoppard

Swimming has been a very effective medium for telling a story about the state of our planet. — Lewis Gordon Pugh

Telling the story, acknowledging what has happened and how you feel, is often a necessary part of forgiveness. — Sharon Salzberg

The trouble with telling a good story is that it invariably reminds the other fellow of a dull one. — Sid Caesar

Christianity tells a big story. It allows us to see our own story in a new way. — Alister E. McGrath

There's always a story that people are telling about themselves, and sometimes you can get them to tell it ever so slightly differently. — Caleb Crain

When I was a kid I did impressions and funny voices a lot. When I was telling a story I would use the voices to make it more entertaining. — Gabriel Iglesias

If the past is no longer present
is it fiction? — Natasha Tsakos

Telling a story that is consistent with everything that happened before, — Michael Lewis

A story has to break your heart or it's not worth telling. — Marty Rubin

When you're writing a novel, you're still telling a story. But you're telling it very differently. It's a craft like anything else. — Howard Gordon

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 will get the whole story. — George V. Higgins

The best way to teach people is by telling a story — Kenneth H. Blanchard

Each person's life is a story that is telling itself in the living. — William Throsby Bridges

When we, any of us who have been transformed by Christ, tell our own stories, we're telling the story of who God is. — Shauna Niequist

For me, it's writing a book and telling people about this story. — Rebecca Skloot

Of course I want my films to look really good, but every single element is chosen for a reason. It's telling something in the story. — Pedro Almodovar

Don't spoil a good story by telling the truth. — Isabella Stewart Gardner

When you hide another story in a story, that's the story I am telling the children. — Maurice Sendak

I think that whenever a book is not a challenge, I'm telling the wrong story. — Maggie Stiefvater

I see myself as anybody, as everybody; I'm not just telling the story of my life to give the reader a picture of who I am. — Paul Auster

There is always some distortion in the re-telling of any story. — Marty Rubin

My wife is the fact-checker, I'm in the story telling business. — Baz Luhrmann

I like to think that I am telling a story rather than writing it. — Alistair MacLeod

I am a story-teller, and I look to academic research ... for ways of augmenting story-telling. — Malcolm Gladwell

When telling a story about how wasted you were last night, stop. — Demetri Martin

The telling of a story, like virtually everything in this life, was always made all the easier by a cup of tea. — Alexander McCall Smith

If a scene doesn't work on three levels - it's not advancing the story, the characters, and telling me something new - then put it in the trash. — Catherine Hardwicke

If sacrifice is not the theme of my life, there's no sense telling the story. — Craig D. Lounsbrough

I was just fascinated with how everyone else in the world lived, and I was interested in telling their story. — Michelle Monaghan

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

Start telling the story of your amazing life, and the law of attraction must make sure you receive it! — Rhonda Byrne

You're telling the story, creating the sets, doing the lighting, the designing, and establishing the pace. — Bill Sienkiewicz

Magicians will always tell you the trick is the most important thing, but I'm more interested in telling a story. — Marco Tempest