Telling Stories Quotes
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Telling Stories 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'm an interpreter of stories. When I perform it's like sitting down at my piano and telling fairy stories.
— Nat King Cole
I'll be at Lambeth telling my story
— Gene Robinson
I love stories. I just enjoy telling stories and watching what these characters do - although writing continues to be just as hard as it always was.
— Martha Grimes
Everybody's got a different way of telling a story - and has different stories to tell.
— Keith Richards
By telling stories, you objectify your own experience. You separate it from yourself. You pin down certain truths.
— Tim O'Brien
I'm always interested in telling stories that have a message because I really do believe that film is so powerful.
— Naomie Harris
I thought I could do that by telling stories of some of the cases that established those principles on a real life on the ground basis.
— Floyd Abrams
Long before writing, people were telling each other stories and the audiobook goes all the way back to that tradition.
— Philip Pullman
I like telling stories, I like movies, and I want to work on films. I think I would feel safer behind the camera.
— Suraj Sharma
The important things that stay are the moments spent listening to people singing, telling stories, enjoying life.
— Paulo Coelho
Whatever you do in terms of telling a story, the most important thing that you can define is who you are.
— John Patrick Shanley
I don't have a particular ambition in any medium. I just want to keep telling stories. If somebody pays me, also good.
— Joss Whedon
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
My function as a writer is not story-telling but truth-telling: to make things plain.
— Laura Riding
Have I told you about Christ?" "Ghost-born-man-walking-on-water-telling-stories-dead-on-tree.
— Robert Holdstock
Other kids grew up telling stories about the Pilot," Caleb says. "But I grew up watching him fly.
— Ally Condie
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
Doesn't the telling of something always become a story?
— Yann Martel
We tell ourselves there are reasons for the things that happen, but we are just telling ourselves stories. We make them up. They don't mean anything
— Nicola Yoon
Some people believe in telling stories. Some believe in doing things about which stories will be told in times to come.
— Sharad Vivek Sagar
Jon relished the stories they were telling, tales of battle and bedding and the hunt. He
— George R R Martin
I'm all about telling stories. I like people to picture the music video in their head when they're just listening to the song.
— Becky G
If you have something that people connect with, you want to keep telling that story and progressing forward.
— Carlos Saldanha
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
I'm telling you stories. Trust me. I
— Jeanette Winterson
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
There's no longevity in me telling old stories on the radio.
— Danny Bonaduce
Why you like photography so much? Because it's just the camera and me showing everyone else what we can see. It's telling stories.
— Lindsey Kelk
I'm not against people just being funny or telling stories. I don't need to delve into the soft, dark core all the time. If it happens, it happens.
— Marc Maron
The difficulty with telling stories about real people is you have to find a way of mixing yourself into the matter.
— Olivier Dahan
You know when you're telling these little stories? Here's a good idea: have a point. It makes it so much more interesting for the listener!
— Steve Martin
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 thought I wanted to be a playwright because I was interested in stories and telling stories.
— Francis Ford Coppola
I love being a storyteller. I love telling stories.
— Henry Rollins
If you want real control, drop the illusion of control; let life have you. It does anyway. You're just telling yourself the story of how it doesn't.
— Byron Katie
I love to act. And oh-so-love telling stories through film as an actor. Even on my 'days off.'
— T. J. Thyne
What we want to see is stories that are going to be honest stories about the characters that we're telling them about.
— Greg Rucka
Any story worth telling is worth embellishing.
— Sputnik Monroe
I want a documentary to crest by being voted on by 6000 people who are in the business of telling stories.
— Sheila Nevins
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
We are our stories. We tell them to stay alive or keep alive those who only live now in the telling.
— Niall Williams
When you direct your first film, you always start by telling stories that you are familiar with.
— Sophie Marceau
Whenever you think that your needs are not being met, you're telling the story of a future
— Byron Katie
The idea for actors is to make a living telling stories, so if you can do that, then you're way ahead of the game.
— John C. McGinley
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
As far as the writing goes, I started telling stories as soon as I could talk, and started writing them down as soon as I could string words together.
— Sarah Zettel
It is futile to spend time telling stories about the fleetness of each day.
— Dejan Stojanovic
If you aren't telling a good story, nobody thinks you died too soon; they just think you died.
— Donald Miller
Because Dickens and Dostoyevsky and Woody Guthrie were telling their stories much better than I ever could, I decided to stick to my own mind.
— Bob Dylan
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
In North Korea, journalism, the job of telling the stories power and money do not want told, of giving a voice to the voiceless, does not exist.
— John Sweeney
Sometimes I think I'm a one-trick pony because I'm not very inventive about new ways of telling stories.
— Sara Paretsky
The business of stories is not enchantment. The business of stories is not escape. The business of stories is waking up.
— Martin Shaw
Even in traditional filmmaking, you're always trying to find novel ways of telling stories, and this is different.
— Rick Heinrichs
Good telling of human stories is the best way to keep the Internet and the World Wide Web from becoming a waste vastland.
— Walter Isaacson
There is no off position on my visual switch, and I don't want one. I love, and always have, telling stories with my camera.
— Bill Frakes
The telling of a good story, especially one that is real and true, is always exciting.
— Aeriel Miranda
The brain stays up all night telling stories while we sleep. We just call them dreams.
— Jonathan Gottschall
My music is part of the quest I have to find new ways of telling stories, and also, I want to inspire people.
— Michael Franti
Nothing much interested me other than playing with language and telling stories and doing something with the wonders of the world around me.
— Kate Grenville
Girls have always read comics. There's nothing intrinsically masculine about telling stories with pictures.
— Kelly Sue DeConnick
I like telling stories about people with problems. I can't really put it much simpler than that.
— Steve Buscemi
Despite the impression you may have from watching too much TV, movies are not about reproducing reality. They're about telling stories.
— Seth Shostak
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
You have to appreciate the readers, without them there are no stories worth telling.
— Andrew Lennon
Trust me, I'm telling you stories.
— Jeanette Winterson
We learn who we are and where we come from, what is right and what is wrong, from hearing and telling stories - something
— Eric Greitens
Don't spoil a good story by telling the truth.
— Isabella Stewart Gardner
So much of science proceeds by telling stories.
— Stephen Jay Gould
I love telling stories and acting and entertaining people. I don't want to make fun of people.
— Bob Saget
That's what ever great writer, I believe, has done over the course of time - is they've figured out new ways of telling the same stories.
— James Frey
When you hide another story in a story, that's the story I am telling the children.
— Maurice Sendak
I was tired of working in an office and I wanted to make a living telling stories. There are not many people who find a way to do this.
— Nick Antosca
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 a big difference between storytelling and being alive. Those are the two things that I prefer in life - telling stories and being alive.
— Jaco Van Dormael
Trust me, I'm telling you stories ... I can change the story. I am the story.
— Jeanette Winterson
My favorite thing in the world is telling stories, and most of what I do is telling stories through music.
— Taylor Swift
Whoever is missing in action turns
Into a flower, after he reappears
In stories, such as the old people were
Telling... — Simeon Dumdum Jr.
Into a flower, after he reappears
In stories, such as the old people were
Telling... — Simeon Dumdum Jr.
When I was painting, I was painting stories I was telling myself. When I look back at it, moving to writing was a very natural progression for me.
— Janet Evanovich
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
When telling a story about how wasted you were last night, stop.
— Demetri Martin
When it comes to telling children stories, they don't need simple language. They need beautiful language.
— Philip Pullman