Quotes about Telling a Story

Each song, you're telling a story and acting. Votes: 4

I'm just basically telling a story of my life. Votes: 4

I love being part of a company, and telling a story. Votes: 4

When you play a violin piece, you are a storyteller, and you're telling a story. Votes: 4

Everybody's got a different way of telling a story - and has different stories to tell. Votes: 4

Being an actor is an extension of telling a story and I loved story telling as a child. Votes: 4

I don't think in terms of optimism and pessimism when writing a story. I am telling a story. Votes: 4

Just telling a story. That's cinema. It's not silent, black and white. It's a simple story that's well made. Votes: 4

I'd say Rob Reiner's 'When Harry Met Sally' is my all-time favorite. It made me realize there's a way of telling a story where the audience is so in love with the characters that they forget you're even telling a story. Votes: 4

When you're telling a story, you've got to give details. Votes: 3

You can't really change the heart without telling a story. Votes: 3

Authenticy in marketing is telling a story people want to hear. Votes: 3

Every leader is telling a story... about what he or she values. Votes: 3

Using language like jungle growth isn't the solution to telling a story. Votes: 3

When telling a story about how wasted you were last night, stop. Votes: 3

Movie-making is telling a story with the best technology at your disposal. Votes: 3

Acting and singing are actually very similar because they're both telling a story. Votes: 3

I like when you are telling a story and fall into an impression. Votes: 3

I think film, to me, as a director, is about telling a story. Votes: 3

If you're telling a story it's always best not to play the ending. Votes: 3

I like to think that I am telling a story rather than writing it. Votes: 3

I'm just grateful to finally be telling a story with all females at the lead. Votes: 3

The most important thing to realize is that everyone is capable of telling a story. Votes: 3

I think, for me, I have to remember that I'm telling a story in some way. Votes: 3

I don't ever want anything to come in the way of me truthfully telling a story. Votes: 3

That's the miracle of telling a story in film: You can express something inside someone's mind. Votes: 3

Consciousness begins when brains acquire the power, the simple power I must add, of telling a story. Votes: 3

Swimming has been a very effective medium for telling a story about the state of our planet. Votes: 3

I think when you're telling a story from inside of you that's genuine, people connect with it. Votes: 3

History had its own way of explaining things. The way historians explain things is by telling a story. Votes: 3

As a writer, I am just an actor in a play, telling a story that needs to be told. Votes: 3

Poetry is a fresh morning spider-web telling a story of moonlit hours of weaving and waiting during a night. Votes: 3

There's nothing wrong with a male's point of view, obviously, but it's just a different way of telling a story. Votes: 3

Magicians will always tell you the trick is the most important thing, but Im more interested in telling a story. Votes: 3

Magicians will always tell you the trick is the most important thing, but I'm more interested in telling a story. Votes: 3

I'm not interested in telling a story in my photographic work. I'm more interested in freezing certain moments in time. Votes: 3

From a craft standpoint, telling a story in the first-person present tense over the course of 500 pages is a daunting challenge. Votes: 3

Whatever you do in terms of telling a story, the most important thing that you can define is who you are. Votes: 3

And telling a story, I suppose, is like winding a skein of spun yarn- you sometimes lose track of the beginning. Votes: 3

There's nothing funny the first time about telling a story about getting beat up and it makes you leave high school. Votes: 3

All of my favourite albums have this incredible amount of conceptual glue to them, even if they are not telling a story. Votes: 3

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. Votes: 3

I don't think I have what it takes to make a good action game. I think I'm better at telling a story. Votes: 3

Style is not an end in itself, it is only a means to an end - the means of telling a story. Votes: 3

Singing is about telling a story. When you are onstage, you get to be your own self... When acting, you're someone else. Votes: 3

I keep on having ideas and developments. Some happen and some don't, but I still always have a way of telling a story. Votes: 3

A special effect is a tool, a means of telling a story. A special effect without a story is a pretty boring thing. Votes: 3

We have no filter for music, but we feel it when what's being spoken and sung is telling a story and evidencing a character. Votes: 3

When a woman wins an Oscar for telling a story from a woman's point of view, that's going to be the win. That's the moment. Votes: 3

When you're telling a story, I think you should tell it to its fullest, with reckless abandon, and absolutely let it be what it is. Votes: 3

I don't like books that play to the gallery, but I've become more concerned with telling a story as clearly and engagingly as I can. Votes: 3

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. Votes: 3

Honestly, there are so many things about structuring a story for film and telling a story for film that are really different from doing radio. Votes: 3

All writers are different, each have their own artist way they go about telling a story. The only thing they have in common, is they write. Votes: 3

The most important thing to realise is that everyone is capable of telling a story. It doesn't matter where we were born or how we grew up. Votes: 3

I want to work with anyone who's passionate about telling a story. I obviously have a list of people I really love, but it's a really long list. Votes: 3

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. Votes: 3

I work with gold that holds our past and diamonds that see the future and rubies that long for love. It's just a way of telling a story. Votes: 3

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. Votes: 3

The Irish way of telling a story is a complex and elaborate one, complete with wild exaggerations, a certain delight in improbable fantasy, and a heightened sense of drama. Votes: 3

We're telling a story. And the demands of that are different from the demands of a documentary. The audience must believe in order to keep faith in the story. Votes: 3

The real difference between telling what happened and telling a story about what happened is that instead of being a victim of our past, we become master of it. Votes: 3

I had the feeling that focusing on objects and telling a story through them would make my protagonists different from those in Western novels - more real, more quintessentially of Istanbul. Votes: 3

For me, there's a fine line between telling a story that's fictional with lots of details and then removing yourself too much from it, so it's bloodless, a little too fictional. Votes: 3

I definitely feel like, as a singer, I've been able to transition into acting because I always saw them in the same vein. It's all about connecting and telling a story. Votes: 3

The pleasure of writing fiction is that you are always spotting some new approach, an alternative way of telling a story and manipulating characters; the novel is such a wonderfully flexible form. Votes: 3

As a media member, my goal is to inform the American fans of persons of character. It's a joy for me, either writing a good story or telling a story on video. Votes: 3

In the South, we tell stories. We tell stories if you're in a sales position, if you're in a retail position, you lure your customer by telling a story. You just do. Votes: 3

I've been drawing my whole life. My mom says my sister and I were drawing by age 1. Animation seems a real, natural extension of drawing as a way of telling a story visually. Votes: 3

For me, being in front of a camera is a matter of practicing and refining your art. I think, if you're telling a story worth telling, it's worth investing the time into developing. Votes: 3

Then the writing became so fluid that I sometimes felt as if I were writing for the sheer pleasure of telling a story, which may be the human condition that most resembles levitation. Votes: 3

There's no better way to test a person than to put them in the middle of a war. That's clearly going to show what kind of a character you're telling a story about. Votes: 3

That's the gift 'Precious' has given me. You really think you're telling a story about a fat black girl, and only fat black girls will understand it, and then you realize we're all Precious. Votes: 3

My dad's a Pentecostal minister, meaning that he's full of charisma. If he's telling a story about Noah's ark, you best know each tiger is going to be having their own little conversation and narrative. Votes: 3

[Janco] paused. His eyes held a distant gleam as if seeing into his past. 'My first practice was a shock. I was a cocky smart aleck--' [Opal] 'Was?' [J] 'Be quiet. I'm telling a story here. Votes: 3

I think going from doing TV and straight plays to Shakespeare is weird enough because you have this heightened language, and you are telling a story through metric poetry. But I think music is that place beyond poetry. Votes: 3

I like the detail work of telling a story in small pieces, as is done in movie-making, and also the long leap of faith needed to see a theatre performance through each night. Both require focus and self-discipline. Votes: 3

Story is about pulling the reader in and a plot is a more externalized mechanism of revelation. A plot is more antic, more performative, and less intimate. When you're telling a story you're telling it into someone's ear. Votes: 3

I want to bring drawing back to the basics, make it about the pleasure that it can afford and remove the notion that it's some kind of precious or difficult activity. It's another way of telling a story. Votes: 3

Because you're telling a story, and I'm sure people fifty years ago would tell the same story differently if they were telling it to you today. Because the time is different. The film is the work of today's audience. Votes: 3

I would make a genuinely terrible guide. I can't remember things. I would get half way through telling a story or explaining something and I would get distracted. Oh, and I have absolutely no sense of direction at all. Votes: 3

I know the responsibility that entails from telling a story. The one thing I despise the most is when I go to a movie and I see a whole bunch of lazy actors making me waste my time and money. Votes: 3

I'd say I'm the opposite of someone that has the urge to stand in front of strangers and make them laugh, but the idea of getting up and telling a story and people finding it amusing always appealed to me. Votes: 3

My partner, Danny Strong, came to me with this idea of telling a story about my life and merging that with music and the hip-hop world. He wrote 'The Butler' and originally wanted to do 'Empire' also as a movie. Votes: 3

Art is the provocation for talking about enigma and the search for sense in human life. One can do that by telling a story or writing about a fresco by Giotto or studying how a snail climbs up a wall. Votes: 3

Just because I'm telling a story about a woman losing faith is not my rebellion against what I grew up in. If anything, it really affected the way I approached the story, and in fact, approach everything. I don't judge my characters. Votes: 3

I think there's always satisfaction that comes from digging in and telling a story and being on the front line and writing about it. I think there's a venue available if you look. Even print journalism is in good shape in areas. Votes: 3

I think the novel is not so much a literary genre, but a literary space, like a sea that is filled by many rivers. The novel receives streams of science, philosophy, poetry and contains all of these; it's not simply telling a story. Votes: 3

Theatre is the principal job of an actor. An actor's job is to tell a story to someone in a room. TV and film can be great and I really love doing it, but it is a different way of telling a story. Votes: 3

I always have the best story at the party. Anyone telling a story at a party is like, 'No, no, you've got to listen to my story!' I'm like, 'Step aside, everybody. I'm going to blow the doors off this place.' Votes: 3

I've always thought stand-up comedians were the oral storytellers of our time, because they know rhetoric, they know delivery, they know timing, they know all of these things that you can only learn by telling a story out loud and interacting with an audience. Votes: 3

I knew that a historian (or a journalist, or anyone telling a story) was forced to choose, out of an infinite number of facts, what to present, what to omit. And that decision inevitably would reflect, whether consciously or not, the interests of the historian. Votes: 3

Literary modernism kind of grew out of a sense that, "Oh my god! I'm telling a story! Oh, that can't be the case, because I'm a clever person. I'm a literary person! What am I going to do to distinguish myself? I know! I'll write Ulysses." Votes: 3

Writing for theatre is certainly different to writing an essay or any other kind of fiction or prose: it's physical. You're also telling a story, but sometimes the story isn't exactly what you intend; maybe you uncover something you had no idea you were going to uncover. Votes: 3

I couldn't be happier teaming up to make the feature with a company as innovative as VICE. There is so much the world doesn't know about piracy in Somalia and the people involved, and I'm excited to be telling a story of piracy in Somalia from a different perspective. Votes: 3

Everyone is told to go to high school and get good grades and go to college and get good grades and then get a job and then get a better job. There's no one really telling a story about how they totally blew it, and they figured it out. Votes: 3

I'm a sci-fi fan, and I guess you have to let go of some of that at some point, and realize that as long as you're focused on telling a story that you care about, at the end of the day, that's what really matters, even to hard-core sci-fi fans. Votes: 3

I can still remember the miraculous feeling of writing a sentence, then more sentences, telling a story. The first thing I wrote was a one-page summary of Robinson Crusoe and I am so sorry I do not have it any more; it was at that moment I became an author. Votes: 3

Anyone can write a story based on the kind of horror where you see a guy in car and then there's the bad guy in the back seat. It's infantile to rely on that for telling a story. That's like going to bed and thinking there's a monster under your bed. It's silly. Votes: 3

The Torah is the foundational text for Jewish law, but the Haggadah is our book of living memory. We are not merely telling a story here. We are being called to a radical act of empathy. Here we are, embarking on an ancient, perennial attempt to give human lives - our lives - dignity. Votes: 3

I think cinema should provoke thoughts, sure, but using it as I soapbox I think is the wrong place. I never want to be part of something like that, where there's an agenda there that's not about telling a story, where its someone getting on a soapbox and preaching their own beliefs onto somebody. Votes: 3

Everything has changed, but the process of telling a story has not changed. It's like cavemen sitting around the fire; somebody's going to tell the story. Somebody is drawing on the wall. You're communicating. You're trying to learn and teach at the same time. You're your own student and you're your own teacher, but the process is of the communicating. Votes: 3

I'm a sucker for gag reels and teaser trailers for new seasons. One of the great parts of panels, especially on a show like 'Supernatural,' which can be so dark, it's fun to get up there and laugh and remember we're only telling a story. Seeing Eric Kripke and Ben Edlund up there being so funny always makes me laugh. Votes: 3

The writers I care about most and never grow tired of are: Shakespeare, Swift, Fielding, Dickens, Charles Reade, Flaubert and, among modern writers, James Joyce, T. S. Eliot and D. H. Lawrence. But I believe the modern writer who has influenced me most is Somerset Maugham, whom I admire immensely for his power of telling a story straightforwardly and without frills. Votes: 3

That's what people want to watch - somebody telling a story. So if you go in and tell a story that makes sense to them, that touches them, then they're going to watch; then they'll tell a friend and that type of thing. In terms of how many people are watching in a given week, it's more the advertiser's job, not mine. Votes: 3

I'm a writer. I just love telling stories. Votes: 2

I'm telling a Richard Pryor story through me. Votes: 2

I love being a storyteller. I love telling stories. Votes: 2

I'm a conduit for telling people's stories. It's a privilege. Votes: 2

History's like a story in a way: it depends on who's telling it. Votes: 2

I think that whenever a book is not a challenge, I'm telling the wrong story. Votes: 2

I am a story-teller, and I look to academic research... for ways of augmenting story-telling. Votes: 2

I thought I wanted to be a playwright because I was interested in stories and telling stories. Votes: 2

I'm really into the idea of telling stories. Everyone needs stories. Everyone needs to escape every once in a while. Votes: 2

I can make up stories with the best of them. I've been telling stories since I was a little kid. Votes: 2

Memory is the way we keep telling ourselves our stories - and telling other people a somewhat different version of our stories. Votes: 2

I always wanted to do an animated movie. I find it to be incredibly liberating as a way of telling a story. Votes: 2

Story telling is joke telling. Votes: 0

Any story worth telling is worth embellishing. Votes: 0

I'll be at Lambeth telling my story Votes: 0

Make your life a story worth telling, Votes: 0

Every story needs to be worth telling. Votes: 0

The right story needs the right telling. Votes: 0

Any story worth telling is worth exaggerating. Votes: 0

I love political dramas. I love good story-telling. Votes: 0

Marketing, when done well, is about story telling. Votes: 0

History depends on who is telling the story. Votes: 0

I'm telling the same story in every film. Votes: 0

Don't spoil a good story by telling the truth. Votes: 0

There is nothing wrong with just telling the story. Votes: 0

They say a story loses something with each telling. Votes: 0

The first draft is just you telling yourself the story. Votes: 0

Courage is telling our story, not being immune to criticism. Votes: 0

Throughout history, story telling was at the very beginning of life. Votes: 0

My wife is the fact-checker, I'm in the story telling business. Votes: 0

The story is not in the plot but in the telling. Votes: 0

All photographers have to do, is find and catch the story-telling moment. Votes: 0

I hate telling that story to people who've been struggling for years. Votes: 0

The craft of the novelist does lie first of all in story-telling. Votes: 0

A story has to break your heart or it's not worth telling. Votes: 0

For me, it's writing a book and telling people about this story. Votes: 0

Each person's life is a story that is telling itself in the living. Votes: 0

I'm interested in telling the character's story, not my beliefs, political or otherwise. Votes: 0

The most important thing is story-telling. It's as singular and old-fashioned as that. Votes: 0

It doesn't matter what story we're telling, we're telling the story of family. Votes: 0

I think there's a certain lyricism in the telling of a scientific story. Votes: 0

My function as a writer is not story-telling but truth-telling: to make things plain. Votes: 0

No story is worth telling without the twists and turns. Make them count instead. Votes: 0

Every day is a new opportunity to make your life a story worth telling. Votes: 0

The prose as such has to be singing the song the story is telling. Votes: 0

The more personal you get, the more universal a story you end up telling. Votes: 0

Documentarian Laura Poitras has crafted a first-rate Hitchcockian-type thriller telling the story of Edward Snowden. Votes: 0

Most of the pain we feel is nothing more than a story that needs telling. Votes: 0

Trust me, I'm telling you stories. ... I can change the story. I am the story. Votes: 0

On average, physicians interrupt patients within eighteen seconds of when they begin telling their story. Votes: 0

I got this story from someone who had no business in the telling of it. Votes: 0

Telling Phil Hellmuth a bad beat story, is like telling Joan Rivers a Botox Story Votes: 0

Just as with the quartet, each part of a painting is telling a different story. Votes: 0

When you hide another story in a story, that's the story I am telling the children. Votes: 0

If I had to define my philosophy, it would be about exploration, a journey, a story-telling. Votes: 0

The telling of a good story, especially one that is real and true, is always exciting. Votes: 0

For me, the act of telling the story and showing it to somebody is almost gravy. Votes: 0

You can't be a serious writer of fiction unless you believe the story you are telling. Votes: 0

It's dark already and I'm out here again, talking, telling the story to the quiet night. Votes: 0

Whatever story you're telling in Louisiana, the landscape is going to become a character in it. Votes: 0

Sometimes there's a disjoint between what works on the page and what works with visual story telling. Votes: 0

God has a story to tell about you. A major part of it is you telling yours. Votes: 0

Not every story has a happy ending, but that doesn’t mean it’s not worth telling. Votes: 0

I think not many young people are willing to pay the price of telling their own story. Votes: 0

If you aren't telling a good story, nobody thinks you died too soon; they just think you died. Votes: 0

If you keep telling the same sad small story. You will keep living the same sad small life. Votes: 0

Whenever you think that your needs are not being met, you’re telling the story of a future Votes: 0

When you are telling your story, hold your own ink pen. Don't let anybody else tell your story. Votes: 0

We're all story-telling creatures, and also I think that's the point about biography because the life is exemplary. Votes: 0

I wanted to tell a story that interested me as much in the telling as in the watching. Votes: 0

I fell in love with the possibilities of telling the story in the future, and married that quickly. Votes: 0

If you have something that people connect with, you want to keep telling that story and progressing forward. Votes: 0

Sometimes the story we're telling the world isn't half as endearing as the one that lives inside us. Votes: 0

I was a young cat, and I was very fast, but I wasn't telling no kind of story. Votes: 0

Telling my story is to empower people to believe in their own power. We have so much power individually. Votes: 0

There are definitely some stories worth telling and I think there's something to be said for telling your story. Votes: 0

Anyone can have a once-upon-a-time or a happily-ever-after, but it's the journey between that makes the story worth telling. Votes: 0

Writers are given one great story to tell their story. I’m telling my story as a political document. Votes: 0

I associate times with certain music. It still is that for me. It's telling the story of our lives. Votes: 0

I think story-telling is innate in human beings, it's something that we've done since we scrawled across cave walls. Votes: 0

I'm not the go-to guy. Everybody is trying to tell their story and have different ways of telling it. Votes: 0

A happy ending isn't really the end. It's just the place where you choose to stop telling the story. Votes: 0

That's the most important thing for me in TV, telling the story to as many people as we can. Votes: 0

By telling my own story, I hope to help remove the stigma. It never should be something to hide. Votes: 0

God is telling an amazing, glorious, epic story. We have to decide if we will trust Him with it... Votes: 0

The trouble with telling a good story is that it invariably reminds the other fellow of a dull one. Votes: 0

Start telling the story of your amazing life, and the law of attraction must make sure you receive it! Votes: 0

Humans are pattern-seeking story-telling animals, and we are quite adept at telling stories about patterns, whether they exist or not. Votes: 0

The unutterable violence of the Holocaust shook our confidence in the possibility of telling any story of faith at all. Votes: 0

Telling a story in a futuristic world gives you this freedom to explore things that bother you in contemporary times. Votes: 0

I was just fascinated with how everyone else in the world lived, and I was interested in telling their story. Votes: 0

At the core of investigative journalism is exactly the same thing that drives a page-turning thriller: telling a great story. Votes: 0

Good restaurant design is about achieving equilibrium between the food, service, and design - in effect, telling a complete story. Votes: 0

The sad ending is only because the author stops telling the story. But it still goes on. It's just untold. Votes: 0

Whatever story you're telling, it will be more interesting if, at the end you add, "and then everything burst into flames. Votes: 0

Because theatre is a story-telling art form, we feel entitled to assume that the playwright got there before we got there. Votes: 0

Depending on the story that you're telling, you can be relatable to everybody or nobody. I try and tell everybody's story. Votes: 0

Anyone who tells you they're not nervous playing on the CMAs stage, I'm afraid they're not telling you the whole story. Votes: 0

As filmmakers, we're constantly always looking for something to bring the audience deeper into the reality of the story we're telling. Votes: 0

The most attractive characteristic in a person is the story they are telling the world. We stop and stare at stories. Votes: 0

I'm an around-the-way girl. I'm a singer, songwriter. I'm about positivity and spreading a good message and telling the people's story. Votes: 0

Good literature boils down to two things: How interesting is the story you are telling, and how interesting is your telling. Votes: 0

The idea of starting with that Kanye [West] song is declarative. It says, "This is the kind of story we're telling." Votes: 0

Drawing is the poet's written line, set down to see if there be a story worth telling, a truth worth revealing. Votes: 0

There is only the actuality of what happens in life. The rest is just a story, no matter who's telling it. Votes: 0

The longer the president goes without telling his side of the story, the more unease there will be in the public. Votes: 0

I don't think I've ever really pursued telling my story, but I think things come to you at the right time. Votes: 0

If the script is telling the story well, that is your inspiration, and you do not need to go somewhere else. Votes: 0

What I am telling you, before you begin my story, is this -- two things: I crave truth. And I lie. Votes: 0

I had a story-telling mother; she's written novels and short stories. So I feel like maybe I'm staying alive by telling tales. Votes: 0

Child,' said the Lion, 'I am telling you your story, not hers. No one is told any story but their own. Votes: 0

The telling of a story, like virtually everything in this life, was always made all the easier by a cup of tea. Votes: 0

Life begins at forty, but so does arthritis, and the habit of telling the same story three times to the same person. Votes: 0

The world is dark, and light is precious. Come closer, dear reader. You must trust me. I am telling you a story. Votes: 0

It's only afterwards that it becomes anything like a story at all. When you're telling it, to yourself or to someone else. Votes: 0

Great marketing is all about telling your story in such a way that it compels people to buy what you are selling. Votes: 0

Not only is your story worth telling, but it can be told in words so painstakingly eloquent that it becomes a song. Votes: 0

First-person narrators can't die, so as long as we keep telling the story of our own lives we're safe. Ha bloody fucking Ha. Votes: 0

I'm not interested in breaking news. I'm interested in telling the story of what's going on and then trying to figure it out. Votes: 0

You have to know the story that you're telling, and you have to know the tone in which the story is being told. Votes: 0

Each child’s story is worthy of telling. There shouldn’t be a sliding scale of death. The weight of it is crushing. Votes: 0

Re-telling the Christian story is the essence of my vocation. That has been going on since the Evangelists in one form or another. Votes: 0

Nietzsche said that everyone tells themselves the story of their life. That's true about countries, too. We're constantly telling ourselves the American story. Votes: 0

America is a nation of prayer. It's impossible to tell the story of our nation without telling the story of people who pray. Votes: 0

I learned another thing, which is that just because someone is eating the ashes of your protagonist doesn't mean you stop telling the story. Votes: 0

Watching a movie from beginning to end is like reading, because even though what you see are images, they are telling you a story. Votes: 0

Telling a story of illness, one pulls a thread through a narrow opening flanked on one side by shame and the other by trivia. Votes: 0

Watching a movie from beginning to end is like reading, because even though what you see are images, they are telling you a story Votes: 0

The only thing standing between you and your goal is the bullshit story you keep telling yourself as to why you can't achieve it. Votes: 0

Life is like that. Death sweeps it away. That's what death is for. That's why they keep telling this story. It's the only story. Votes: 0

We are, as a species, addicted to story. Even when the body goes to sleep, the mind stays up all night, telling itself stories. Votes: 0

Voice really depends on the answer to the question, Who is telling this story? . . . That will color your diction-and determine your metaphors, your sensibility. Votes: 0

The simple act of telling a woman's story from a woman's point of view is a revolutionary act: it never has been done before. Votes: 0

Certainly, I devote my energy to both telling my personal life story and seeking self- obliteration. However, I will not destroy myself through art. Votes: 0

No love story worth telling is easy. The hills and valleys that make a relationship, in my opinion, is really a dynamic worth watching. Votes: 0

I think people are tired of being slammed with foul language and sexual content that really has nothing to do with (telling a good story)... Votes: 0

Sometimes people get mad at The Simpsons' subversive story telling, but there's another message in there, which is a celebration of making wild, funny stories. Votes: 0

When you have a steady and lifelong group of girlfriends, chances are the person you're telling the story to is actually part of the story. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

Animation offers a medium of story telling and visual entertainment which can bring pleasure and information to people of all ages everywhere in the world. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

If you read, your book is kind of your friend, because it's like the book is telling you its story and you're being the listener. Votes: 0

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! Votes: 0

I was raised by and have raised people who regard telling one story when two would do as a sign someone is not really trying. Votes: 0

You have to find your tone and work within that to make it as real so the audience can really engage in the story you're telling. Votes: 0

You can be intuitive when you've got a more expansive role. You can get into the poetry of telling the story rather than just pushing buttons. Votes: 0

Basically, all novelists should want to tell a story, and if they don't want to, they shouldn't be novelists. I think story-telling is important and underrated. Votes: 0

Writing is something you do alone. It's a profession for introverts who wanna tell you a story but don't wanna make eye contact while telling it Votes: 0

I'm just trying to make the point that the story we're telling ourselves is often very different from the story we're telling the people around us. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

A story, after all, does not only belong to the one who is telling it. It belongs, in equal measure, to the one who is listening. Votes: 0

My mom has a tape from when I was, like, 2 years old, talking with my grandma, telling her a story that's really elaborate about werewolves and wolves. Votes: 0

Hallelujah! Amen! Christianity is so inherent in western story-telling, you can't really get around it. But it wasn't something that drew me to it more or less. Votes: 0

Frank Sinatra said this great thing, that singing isn't about singing in tune, or great technical singing. It's about making people believe in the story you're telling. Votes: 0

Woodrell's storytelling is as melodic, jangly and energetic as a good banjo riff.... Sammy Barlach's story is a tragedy, but the telling of it is a pleasure. Votes: 0

Telling Alan Turing's story in a two-hour film was a tremendous challenge. It felt in some small way like our filmmaking version of breaking the enigma code. Votes: 0

It's not so much that I got that idea at some point, it came up naturally because of the improvisational nature of the story I was telling. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

This is what life is about: seeing new places, meeting new people, grabbing life by the balls and squeezing until it coughs up a story worth telling. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

I still have nightmares of dead comrades, a long time ago, talking to me. 'Emmanuel, don't forget about us, don't give up, keep telling our story.' Votes: 0

The deepest failures any fiction writer is likely to have are failures of not quite comprehending the truth of the story that he or she is telling. Votes: 0

A story is based on what people think is important, so when we live a story, we are telling people around us what we think is important. Votes: 0

Escaping into the fantasy of intellectual investigation or narrative story telling makes me feel hopeful. That too is a fiction, but one that makes me feel good sometimes. Votes: 0

When everyone is determined to present someone as a monster, there are two possibilities: either he’s a saint or they themselves are not telling the whole story. Votes: 0

Telling a true story about personal experience is not just a matter of being oneself, or even or finding oneself. It is also a matter of choosing oneself. Votes: 0

For the doubters out there, of course I was going to have help from Penguin's editorial team in telling my story, which I talked about from the beginning. Votes: 0

Frankly, I'm mainly telling the story to myself. Thinking about audience is too daunting, and worst case, invites you to homogenize, to soften the hard edges of things. Votes: 0

The fact that somebody's telling you a story about people who didn't exist doesn't make the experience of the story any less real in your heart and mind. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

I think as long as the standard of quality, the story-telling, film-making, acting etc. etc. remains consistent, then you've got a good change of making a decent anthology. Votes: 0

If you want to know someone's story, they have to tell it aloud. But every time, the telling is a little but different. It's new, even to me. Votes: 0

The Celtic folk-tales have been collected while the practice of story-telling is still in full vigour, though there is every sign that its term of life is already numbered. Votes: 0

I write movies, so - I look at boxing, and I commentated on it, as if I were telling you the story of a movie or a short story. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

Maybe our telling of the story wasn't as clear as it should have been, but I don't think that's true. In terms of understanding the story, it comes across. Votes: 0

I start with the history, and I ask myself, 'What are the great turning points? What are the big dramatic scenes that are essential to telling the story?' Votes: 0

I usually make sure that my stories are from Africa or my own background so as to highlight the cultural background at the same time as telling the story. Votes: 0

I'm interested in reality, and I'm interested in survival. I'm interested in people who aren't the lucky ones, who maybe have a tougher time surviving, and telling their story. Votes: 0

When you write a story, you're telling yourself the story," he said. "When you rewrite, your main job is taking out all the things that are not the story. Votes: 0