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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

Certainly, I devote my energy to both telling my personal life story and seeking self- obliteration. However, I will not destroy myself through art. — Yayoi Kusama

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

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

It will be a great story when I'm an old man telling my grandkids that I was once the best player in the world. — Luke Donald

As a boy, I remember my father telling me a bedtime story about the day my grandfather was decapitated. — Justin Bienvenue

I don't judge in my books. I don't have to have the antagonist get shot or the protagonist win. It's just how it comes out. I'm just telling a story. — Elmore Leonard

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

What I am telling you, before you begin my story, is this
two things: I crave truth. And I lie. — Tana French

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

My function as a writer is not story-telling but truth-telling: to make things plain. — Laura Riding

If I had to define my philosophy, it would be about exploration, a journey, a story-telling. — Hussein Chalayan

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

By telling my own story, I hope to help remove the stigma. It never should be something to hide. — Richard Dreyfuss

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

In fact, after a while it was the machines I was looking at, not my father at all. They had become him. They were telling me his story. Which — Daniel Wallace

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

story telling is not a career, it's a calling. I've been writing true and compelling news my entire professional life. My novels are packs of lies — Glen Carter

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

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

Life is a great Book. We are writing the history of our time. — Lailah Gifty Akita

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

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

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

I'm just basically telling a story of my life. — Jose Canseco

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

Telling our personal story reveals the shape shifting landscape of our mind. — Kilroy J. Oldster

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

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

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 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 interested in telling the character's story, not my beliefs, political or otherwise. — Sarah Paulson

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

Telling my story was supposed to be a good thing but it had just made everything worse. — Sara Novic

I love to do fashion. I always put fashion in all of my storytelling because that's what I am, but I'm not selling clothes, I'm telling a story. — Patricia Field

I don't think I've ever really pursued telling my story, but I think things come to you at the right time. — Charisma Carpenter

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

Writers are given one great story to tell their story. I'm telling my story as a political document. — Larry Kramer

It is a story I never tire of telling, because to me it is the perfect coming together to science and spirituality-the twin driving forces of my life. — A. P. J. Abdul Kalam

Telling my story is to empower people to believe in their own power. We have so much power individually. — Angelique Kidjo

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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