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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

Child,' said the Lion, 'I am telling you your story, not hers. No one is told any story but their own. — C.S. Lewis

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.

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

Make your life a story worth telling, — Adam Braun

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

As an actor, you tell part of a story. As a writer, you get more of telling that story. But as a director, they're seeing the world through your eyes. — Jonah Hill

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

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

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

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

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

Singing is about telling a story. When you are onstage, you get to be your own self ... When acting, you're someone else. — Sabrina Carpenter

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

Don't spoil a good story by telling the truth. — Isabella Stewart Gardner

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

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

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

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

I was just fascinated with how everyone else in the world lived, and I was interested in telling their story. — Michelle Monaghan

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

Not only is your story worth telling, but it can be told in words so painstakingly eloquent that it becomes a song. — Gloria Naylor

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

Good literature boils down to two things: How interesting is the story you are telling, and how interesting is your telling. — Hillel F. Damron

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

Your only job is creating a life that contains a story worth telling. — Carolyn Parkhurst

When you write a story, you're telling yourself the story. When you rewrite, your main job is taking out all the things that are not the story. — Stephen King

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

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

When people seek to undermine your dreams, predict your doom or criticize you, remember that they are telling you their story, not yours. — Cynthia Occelli

Movie-making is telling a story with the best technology at your disposal. — Tom Hanks

... just because someone is eating the ashes of your protagonist doesn't mean you stop telling the story. — Miriam Toews

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

The idea of telling a story in reverse destabilises your ordinary moral reactions. That's one of the points of art - to challenge your preconceptions. — Vincent Cassel

When you change your story that you tell about yourself, you change your life. You can start telling a better story right now. — Sheri Kaye Hoff

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

The first draft is just you telling yourself the story. — Terry Pratchett

Each person's life is a story that is telling itself in the living. — William Throsby Bridges

The best way to teach people is by telling a story — Kenneth H. Blanchard

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

Telling a story that is consistent with everything that happened before, — Michael Lewis

If the past is no longer present
is it fiction? — Natasha Tsakos

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

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

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

The trouble with telling a good story is that it invariably reminds the other fellow of a dull one. — Sid Caesar

Telling the story, acknowledging what has happened and how you feel, is often a necessary part of forgiveness. — Sharon Salzberg

Swimming has been a very effective medium for telling a story about the state of our planet. — Lewis Gordon Pugh

Because theatre is a story-telling art form, we feel entitled to assume that the playwright got there before we got there. — Tom Stoppard

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

I like to think that I am telling a story rather than writing it. — Alistair MacLeod

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

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

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

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

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

You're telling the story, creating the sets, doing the lighting, the designing, and establishing the pace. — Bill Sienkiewicz

Start telling the story of your amazing life, and the law of attraction must make sure you receive it! — Rhonda Byrne

Any story that I can consider worth telling is one that you could tell in words. — Ira Glass

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

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

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 telling of a story, like virtually everything in this life, was always made all the easier by a cup of tea. — Alexander McCall Smith

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