Story Telling Quotes
Collection of 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
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
I think not many young people are willing to pay the price of telling their own story.
— Haile Gerima
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
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 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
Don't you ever feellike 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
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
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 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
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 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 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
( ... ) every story one chooses to tell is a kind of censorship, it prevents the telling of other tales ( ... )
— Salman Rushdie
Design is an opportunity to continue telling the story, not just to sum everything up.
— Tate Linden
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
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 presentis it fiction? — Natasha Tsakos
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
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
Start telling the story of your amazing life, and the law of attraction must make sure you receive it!
— Rhonda Byrne
