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Shall I tell you a bedtime story? — Steven King

To tell a strong story with real taste of an epic tragedy needs great actors. — Luiz Bolognesi

I think all artists have a different story to tell, and no story is the same. — Solange Knowles

For kids, multitasking electronically is common. But they are totally focused. You can tell a good story, and they listen. — Patrick Carman

Reincarnation is a story we tell; then in the end it's the story itself that is the reincarnation. — Kim Stanley Robinson

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

Everything beautiful has a story it wants to tell. — Susan Meissner

Life is a big story. Music is just one way to tell it, to realize how many tales all kinds of people share. — Stasia Ward Kehoe

I try not to think too much about where my voice comes from. I'm channeling characters and emotion to come up with beautiful words that tell a story. — Gin Wigmore

I'm trying to tell a story and do it truthfully. — Charlie Kaufman

So, then. You want a story and I will tell you one. — Khaled Hosseini

You can't tell a story linearly if you want people to understand. — Lawrence Wright

Each person is a story that the Soul of the World wants to tell to itself. — Michael Meade

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

Every crack in the sidewalk has a story to tell. — Marty Rubin

When you're writing for a show, you're writing part of the script. You have to tell the story. — Adam Schlesinger

Sometimes you can tell a large story with a tiny subject. — Eliot Porter

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

My dad knows how to tell a story. He'd make me laugh by doing all the different voices. — Lily Collins

With short stories, the story-teller must have a story to tell, not merely some sweet prose to take out for a walk — Herbert Gold

He must tell his own story.'
'But he will tell only half of it.'
'A quarter would be enough. — Jane Austen

My responsibility is to try to tell true stories. To me a true story is always hopeful, but never simply, uncomplicatedly happy. — John Green

I think it's much more natural as a writer to want to tell one story rather than lots of small stories that are half an hour long. — Alice Lowe

The vast majority of English folk cannot and will not consider a picture as a picture, apart from any story which it may be supposed to tell. — James Whistler

Just tell yourself a story that'll satisfy you and pretend he told it. — Catherynne M Valente

If you tell a true story, you can't be wrong. — Jack Kerouac

As a writer, my only responsibility is to tell a compelling story. — Jay Asher

It's no sin to tell a good story. — Steven Heighton

I could never have a mistress, because I couldn't bear to tell the story of my life all over again. — Oscar Levant

By the time I finished the first series, 'Marvel Universe vs. Punisher,' I knew that there was a lot more story to tell. — Jonathan Maberry

The way to tell a really big story, I think, is to tell a really small story. — Bruce Feiler

All scares tell a story beautiful girl ... mine tell the story of how I found you. — Madeline Sheehan

What he had to tell them was a story — Daniel Quinn

A photographer is like a writer ... you're writing with your lens so make sure you tell a good story. — Habib Umar Bin Hafiz

Tell a captivating story so smoothly the reader never notices the details. — Sandra Ruttan

As for life, it's just a story that other people tell us about the world and about how we should behave in the world. — Paulo Coelho

A story is a letter the author writes to himself to tell what he wouldn't discover otherwise. — Carlos Ruiz Zafon

You got a story to tell, and you are the only one who can tell it. Don't give up! — Neil Gaiman

This is the first time I will tell my story in English, a language still new to me. The journey to this moment has been a long one. — Hyeonseo Lee

If you ask around, it's pretty easy to find someone who has a bank account overdraft horror story to tell. — Carolyn Maloney

Every role is physical to a certain extent, but as a viewer, I don't respond well to actors doing more than they need to tell a story. — Jamie Dornan

Everybody is special. Everybody. Everybody is a hero, a lover, a fool, a villain. Everybody. Everybody has their story to tell. — Alan Moore

When I am writing anything in general, I just want to tell the story that exists in my head; I don't try to write a parable or make a point. — Lauren DeStefano

The goal, first and foremost, is to tell a satisfying - entertaining - story. — Marc Guggenheim

if you want to convince children of the power of books, don't tell them stories are good. Tell them a good story. — Roger Sutton

I love meeting new people; I think everyone has a story to tell. We should all listen sometimes. — Kim Smith

I like for jewelry to tell a story and to be able to talk about what I'm wearing. That's more important to me than a name, brand, or label. — Nikki Reed

It's a principle of mine to come into the story as late as possible, and to tell it as fast as you can. — John Le Carre

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

It's not an easy thing to tell a true story. — Allen Morris Jones

I just want to tell a good story, so I always ask myself, 'Are these people real to me?' — Ruth Rendell

Don't go yet. Please. Tell me a story, one about us. Tell what it meant. How on earth did it happen? The story, Pat - tell it to me. — Pat Conroy

Any work of art must first of all tell a story. — Robert Frost

It is easier to tell a story of how people wound one another than of what binds them together. — Anne Carson

I just try to tell a story rather than present an open diary to the world. — Adam Schlesinger

If you make something with love and, you know, passion and you tell a real story, I think it will always find an audience somehow, you know. — Anton Corbijn

She says she doesn't care, but her eyes tell a different story. — Victoria Aveyard

But hey, at least we'll have this strange story to tell, love and death and blood and daddy-issues. And holy crap, I'm a psychiatrist's wet dream. — Kendare Blake

It's very healing,' he said, 'to tell yourself your own story as though you were reciting a myth. — Frank Delaney

I've been sifting through the layers
of dusty books and faded papers.
They tell a story I used to know;
one that happened so long ago. — Kate Wolf

One wants to tell a story, like Scheherezade, in order not to die. It's one of the oldest urges in mankind. It's a way of stalling death. — Carlos Fuentes

Tell me something wonderful- a story that's startling and marvelous. — Julie Eshbaugh

Tell the readers a story! Because without a story, you are merely using words to prove you can string them together in logical sentences. — Anne McCaffrey

I love your stories. Tell me a story, Idgie. Go on, you old bee charmer. Tell me a good tall tale. Tell me the one about the lake. ~Ruth Jamison — Fannie Flagg

I want to tell you a story about my mother, although of course it is also mine - inherited, along with dangly earlobes and a horror of deep water. — Tanya Moir

The right people to start video blogging are those with a passion to tell a story. — Steve Garfield

Stories are light. Light is precious in a world so dark. Begin at the beginning. Tell Gregory a story. Make some light. — Kate DiCamillo

Funny how a beautiful song could tell such a sad story — Sarah Dessen

Mine is not a story to tell struggling writers. — Tom Bodett

Having a grand, bold goal was useless if you didn't have the ability to tell a compelling story about how you'd get there. — Brent Schlender

I think the most experimental way to a film is to tell the story the traditional way, because everyone is doing the other thing. — Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu

The situation was saved; Brisbane was going to tell a story. — Francis Marion Crawford

I love things that are old and beautiful and tell a story, even if it's a sad one. — Michelle Williams

One of the best possible perspectives from which to tell a story is that of a ghost, someone who is dead but can still witness. — Javier Marias

If you're going to tell stories about life, you have to include a woman in your story. — Evangeline Lilly

A camera is a camera, a shot is a shot, how you tell the story is the main thing. — Christopher Nolan

I've evolved in my writing to tell a more emotional story - my publisher, Random House, has urged that. — Alan Furst

I think it's essential to construct our lives
as if it's a story we want to tell. — Darrell Calkins

I have a story to tell to anyone who is willing to listen. — Samy Dib

I hardly ever think about audience. I just try to tell a story for me. I write the kind of story I would like to read. — Brent Runyon

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

Make this part of your brand DNA ... Tell Your Story In a Way People Will Care. — Ted Rubin

A story can sing the truth and not just tell it. — Robert Barron

You have to be a bit of a liar to tell a story the right way. — Patrick Rothfuss

I am a storyteller with my music. And my story, nobody gonna tell it for me. — Angelique Kidjo

If an idiot were to tell you the same story every day for a year, you would end by believing it. — Horace Mann

I am a story-teller working with a craft. My job is to use my craft - which is a different thing to my race - and tell a story well. — Gavin Hood

Every film had its own grammar. And it's your job as a director to basically figure out a language to tell a story. — Darren Aronofsky

I'm definitely still putting effort into my lyrics, for them to be emotional and tell a story. — Robert Coppola Schwartzman

Books are a weird collaboration between author and reader: You trust me to tell a good story, and I trust you to bring it to good life in your mind. — John Green

Listen up and I'll tell a story about an artist growing old. Some would try for fame and glory; others aren't so bold. — Daniel Johnston

It's our responsibility as filmmakers to tell a story that's a human drama. — Michelle Yeoh

We are story animals. And we need to tell our stories in as direct, as unmediated, and as emotionally resonant a way as possible. — Stephen Apkon

Stains tell a story," Zac said, waving his arms as he spoke. "My car is full of random stains. — Shana Norris

You'd tell the world what your best friend wore to sleep if you thought it made a good enough story. — Patricia Briggs

That's a very real feeling - that I don't have a story to tell. I'm not a pure storyteller. I have a tough time with story. — Aaron Sorkin

Never tell a story because it is true: tell it because it is a good story. — John Pentland Mahaffy

The only reason ever to make a sequel is to spend more time with the characters that people love: to tell more of their story. — Elizabeth Banks

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

Why don't you tell me a story? — Julie Eshbaugh