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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

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

We choose perfumes for ourselves so we can tell the stories inside of us - the ones that we can't possibly put into words. — C. JoyBell C.

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

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

Make your life a story worth telling, — Adam Braun

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

Mark Twain had a way of telling stories that shifts your consciousness away from labels. — Val Kilmer

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

Writing is solitary. You spend so much time alone and in your own mind, telling stories. — Ruth Ozeki

Nobody wants to be a part of your story. Everybody wants you to elaborate on their fantasies. — Michael Bassey Johnson

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

Help shape the stories that people are telling about you. — Tony Hsieh

When it comes to telling children stories, they don't need simple language. They need beautiful language. — Philip Pullman

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

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

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

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 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 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

When you direct your first film, you always start by telling stories that you are familiar with. — Sophie Marceau

Great marketing is all about telling your story in such a way that it compels people to buy what you are selling. — Gary Vaynerchuk

Listening to others does not mean you should sound like them; find your own voice by telling stories as authentically as possible. — Carmen Agra Deedy

Stay with & live your dreams, for these trail blazers did and history is telling their stories in golden, glossy and embossed shining foils — Ikechukwu Joseph

Sometimes I feel like relationships consist of telling your same life stories to different people until someone finally appreciates them. — Kate Rockland

& all your friends telling you stories that you often misinterpret and taint all the images of yo Mr Perfect — Drake

The writer that you are, I guess you're used to being a kind of dictator, telling the characters in your stories what to do. — Dean Koontz

When someone tells you a piece of their life, they're giving you a gift, not granting you your due. — Patrick Rothfuss

The telling of your stories is a revolutionary act. — Sam Keen

Stories live in your blood and bones, follow the seasons and light candles on the darkest night-every storyteller knows she or he is also a teacher.. — Patti Davis

But when it comes to telling stories in a marketing context, you generally want to inspire your audience. — Greg Koorhan

There are definitely some stories worth telling and I think there's something to be said for telling your story. — Susanna Hoffs

Hopefully life is long. Do stuff you will enjoy thinking about and telling stories about for many years to come. Do stuff you will want to brag about. — Rachel Maddow

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

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

Trust me, I'm telling you stories. — Jeanette Winterson

You have to appreciate the readers, without them there are no stories worth telling. — Andrew Lennon

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

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

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

Despite the impression you may have from watching too much TV, movies are not about reproducing reality. They're about telling stories. — Seth Shostak

I like telling stories about people with problems. I can't really put it much simpler than that. — Steve Buscemi

Girls have always read comics. There's nothing intrinsically masculine about telling stories with pictures. — Kelly Sue DeConnick

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

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

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

The brain stays up all night telling stories while we sleep. We just call them dreams. — Jonathan Gottschall

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

My favorite thing in the world is telling stories, and most of what I do is telling stories through music. — Taylor Swift

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

Even in traditional filmmaking, you're always trying to find novel ways of telling stories, and this is different. — Rick Heinrichs

The business of stories is not enchantment. The business of stories is not escape. The business of stories is waking up. — Martin Shaw

Sometimes I think I'm a one-trick pony because I'm not very inventive about new ways of telling stories. — Sara Paretsky

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

Everyone sleeps, except lovers, who stay awake, telling stories to God — Rumi

When you have fans telling you their stories it makes you feel like you're not alone. — Tristan Prettyman

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

The mind never stops telling stories - not even when we're asleep. — Russ Harris

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

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

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

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

Whoever is missing in action turns
Into a flower, after he reappears
In stories, such as the old people were
Telling... — Simeon Dumdum Jr.