How To Tell Quotes

#1. There might be a proper age to know how to tell a story, but there's no proper age to start telling them.

Xavier Dolan

#2. The happening and the telling are very different things. This doesn't mean that the story isn't true, only that I honestly don't know anymore if I really remember it or only remember how to tell it.

Karen Joy Fowler

#3. There are a million ideas in a world of stories. Humans are storytelling animals. Everything's a story, everyone's got stories, we're perceiving stories, we're interested in stories. So to me, the big nut to crack is to how to tell a story, what's the right way to tell a particular story.

Richard Linklater

#4. I didn't know how to tell him that I hadn't lost the instinct to survive and yet at the same time I didn't feel much need for self-preservation, that somehow there was a distinction between the two.

Jane Hamilton

#5. It's the only way I really know how to tell the story is to be able to kind of live through the characters. So when I find something that resonates with me, it's usually because it cuts to something very real inside of me; something that I've gone through or experienced.

Rob Reiner

#6. You see so many movies ... the younger people who are coming from MTV or who are coming from commercials and there's no sense of film grammar. There's no real sense of how to tell a story visually. It's just cut, cut, cut, cut, cut, you know, which is pretty easy.

Peter Bogdanovich

#7. I know how to tell a story to a thousand people. Sometimes I don't know how to tell a story to a piece of tape on a wall and a camera.

Katie Finneran

#8. Love is a word hard to express, a feeling easy to express and a word hard to take, only the people who try it know the meaning and how to tell it wisely.

Auliq Ice

#9. But in the wake of 'Bullet,' all the guys wanted to know was, 'How's it doing? How's it selling?' How to tell them I didn't give a flying fuck how it was doing in the marketplace, that what I cared about was how it was doing in the reader's heart?

Stephen King

#10. Most people don't know how to tell stories.

Ted Rall

#11. In the end, I will have to make a choice about how to tell my story ... There has to be a moment of going forward, when all the possibilities are left behind.

Helen Humphreys

#12. Express a mean opinion of yourself occasionally; it will show your friends that you know how to tell the truth.

E.W. Howe

#13. Comic strips introduced me to metaphors. They are pure metaphor, so you learn how to tell a story with symbols, which is a very valuable thing to learn. And I learned that from motion pictures, too, and from poetry. Poetry is mainly metaphor. If it doesn't have a metaphor, it doesn't work.

Ray Bradbury

#14. I've always been terrible on regular sitcoms with lots of jokes. I don't know how to tell jokes.

Rainn Wilson

#15. How to tell her in words, then, what he had learned himself by pain and grace? That only by forgiveness could she forget - and that forgiveness was not a single act, but a matter of constant practice. Perhaps

Diana Gabaldon

#16. I'm not the best person to analyze any kind of evolution in my work, but I do feel like it's been an ongoing struggle to basically teach myself how to tell the kinds of stories that interest me in comics form.

Adrian Tomine

#17. Sometimes a book isn't a heartbreaking work of staggering genius.
Sometimes it's the only story you knew how to tell.

Tahereh Mafi

#18. That's the problem with people who are not human. You can't tell how badly they're hurt, or how much they need your help, and until you ask, they don't always know how to tell you.

Jeff VanderMeer

#19. Anything that begins 'I don't know how to tell you this' is never good news.

Ruth Gordon

#20. If you teach kids how to tell stories, they have a better chance at everything.

Sherman Alexie

#21. The chief thing I learnt at school was how to tell lies.

Gwen Raverat

#22. You know how to tell when you're getting old? When your broad mind changes places with your narrow waist.

Red Skelton

#23. At last,' Padma says with satisfaction, 'you've learned how to tell things really fast.

Salman Rushdie

#24. So many stories, and to choose which ones to tell and how to tell them. The words, they will tap me on the shoulder and they will speak to me: 'Tell me! Tell me!' The stories choose me.

Eduardo Galeano

#25. But I couldn't say any of this yet. No one answer felt it could contain anything close to the truth about her. My thoughts of my mother were wild chaos, I didn't know how to tell him we'd been enmeshed for as long as I could remember.

Aspen Matis

#26. I certainly knew from an early age ... how to tell stories; how to create pictures in other people's heads.

Clive Barker

#27. It doesn't matter how nice that expensive watch looks on your wrist if you don't know how to tell time correctly. It doesn't matter how much money you have, if it costs you too much to make it.

Vincent J. Monteleone

#28. Learning how to tell a powerful story is learning how to show up as the winner you are.

Robert T. Kiyosaki

#29. She told me to live ... I didn't know how to tell Her that simply being alive was not enough to be called living.

Kiera Cass

#30. It is so rare ... to find a complete person, with a soul, a heart and an imagination; so rare for characters as ardent and restless as ours to meet and to be matched together, that I hardly know how to tell you what happiness it gives me to know you.

Hector Berlioz

#31. The reader may ask how to tell fact from fiction. A rough guide: anything that seems particularly unlikely is probably true.

Hilary Mantel

#32. The greatest moments are those when you see the result pop up in a graph or in your statistics analysis - that moment you realise you know something no one else does and you get the pleasure of thinking about how to tell them.

Emily Oster

#33. No dates until you're sixteen. And no boyfriends, either.' I'm not quite sure how to tell Mom, but it looks like I don't just have one boyfriend. I have two.

Cara Lockwood

#34. Let me Guess-you lost the coin toss with Dell, which left you stuck with me. Only you don't know how to tell me this because you're a penis-carrying human and can't figure out how to communicate with a mere vagina.

Jill Shalvis

#35. What I learned most was how to tell a story in 15 seconds or 30 seconds or 60 seconds - to have some kind of goal of what to try to do and make it happen in that time.

Renny Harlin

#36. I care," he said in a trembling voice. "I care so much that I do not know how to tell you without it seeming inconsequential compared to how I feel. Even if I am distant at times and seem as if I do not want to be with you, it is only because this scares me, too.

Aimee Carter

#37. My filmmaking background has really just been making movies with my friends since I was 12 years old. That's how I feel I learned how to tell a story visually, by just going out with a video camera and making movies with my friends and family.

Rian Johnson

#38. things like how to tell the age of a tree, the dances of the moon and tides, and the names of the clouds-like cumulonimbus and nimbosttratus-that sounded lie magic spells on his tongue.

Michelle Cuevas

#39. How to Tell If Shoes Fit: Walking around the shoe store is not going to tell you any more than test-driving a car around a showroom. And those little mirrors? That's so you can tell how your cat is going to like your shoes. The real way to tell how shoes fit is how badly you want them.

Mimi Pond

#40. I'm a story teller. I really know how to tell stories of Africa.

Angelique Kidjo

#41. What is your suggestion for someone who wants to start writing? Be a reader. It's the only real way to learn how to tell a story.

Natalie Babbitt

#42. Science is not just 'Here are some facts, learn that'. There's a thread through these stories that, if you know how to tell it because you know how they connect, then it's a thread that will land right in your mind, body and soul.

Neil DeGrasse Tyson

#43. One of the reasons I started working at 'South Park,' actually, was that I wanted to learn how to structure things and how to tell a story.

Bill Hader

#44. It was stupidly, infuriatingly impossible. No wonder I hadn't written anything decent in ages - I couldn't even figure out how to tell a boy that I loved him.

James Patterson

#45. The leader of the past was a person who knew how to tell. The leader of the future will be a person who knows how to ask.

Peter Drucker

#46. There is enormous need for professionals who know how to tell stories with narrative punch and nuance, who can work proactively and not just reactively, and whose approach is multi-faceted. We need more "useful photographers."

Fred Ritchin

#47. How to tell students what to look for without telling them what to see is the dilemma of teaching.

Lascelles Abercrombie

#48. To love someone is to put yourself in their place, we say, which is to put yourself in their story, or figure out how to tell yourself their story.

Rebecca Solnit

#49. It feels so big. It's almost insurmountable. I don't know how to tell them something like this and still come out of it feeling like Simon. Because if Leah and Nick don't recognize me, I don't even recognize myself anymore. My phone buzzes. Text

Anonymous

#50. You have a choice in this world, I believe, about how to tell sad stories, and we made the funny choice.

John Green

#51. And this gay thing. It feels so big. It's almost insurmountable. I don't know how to tell them something like this and still come out of it feeling like Simon. Because if Leah and Nick don't recognize me, I don't even recognize myself anymore.

Becky Albertalli

#52. We began to look at "Why is that?" And a large part of that has to do with the fact that when people have a lot of options to choose from they don't know how to tell them apart. They don't know how to keep track of them.

Sheena Iyengar

#53. People have forgotten how to tell a story. Stories don't have a middle or an end any more. They usually have a beginning that never stops beginning.

Steven Spielberg

#54. 'The Immigrant Story,' which took me about twenty-five years to write, was a very simple story, but I couldn't think of how to tell it. Then twenty years after I started it, I found this one page and realized it was going to be the story. That's the only way you get it sometimes.

Grace Paley

#55. I'm completely in love with her. I just don't know how to tell her because I'm afraid that as soon as I do, she'll run at full speed in the other direction.

Kristen Proby

#56. Original, pacy, and hugely entertaining-Seanan McGuire knows how to tell a good story!

Alma Alexander

#57. How to Tell a Good Pair of Shoes: Do you like them? Then they're good shoes.

Mimi Pond

#58. My dad knows how to tell a story. He'd make me laugh by doing all the different voices.

Lily Collins

#59. Darling girl, blinded by foolish thoughts of love. How to tell her that the hearts of men were not so easily won. If won, rarely kept.

Kate Morton

#60. He never said "Don't tell your mama." He never had to say it. I did not know how to tell anyone what I felt, what scared me and shamed me ... (109)

Dorothy Allison

#61. The white man knows many things," the other whispered back, "but he doesn't know how to tell a good lie.

Okey Ndibe

#62. Some people do want to stand on the rooftop and scream out their story. Others are cowering in the corner, or sitting with a blank face in class, and not knowing how to tell their story.

Lauren Myracle

#63. I've lied all my life. I'm just now learning how to tell the truth, and I'm not going to start playing games again, especially not with you.

Collette West

#64. I spent that whole damn day wandering around the city trying to figure out how to tell how much I loved you without sounding like an idiot.

S.C. Stephens

#65. I think my books talk about kids learning to like and respect themselves and each other. You can't write a message book; you just tell the best story you know how to tell.

Paula Danziger

#66. I nodded, but I didn't know how to tell her how wrong she was. That it's possible for a man to interpret a woman's initial permission as license to steamroll any boundary she may set after that. That once a woman says yes, it's possible a man might not give a shit when she changes her mind.

Amy Hatvany

#67. The veterinarian looked at Buttons for a few seconds, and then he looked up at Karen. He cleared his throat. He said, Ma'am, I don't know how to tell you this, but - Buttons - Buttons isn't a dog.

Laura Kasischke

#68. Carlyle said 'a lie cannot live.' It shows that he did not know how to tell them.

Mark Twain

#69. You don't need sex for that kind of thing to happen. For your body to forget how to tell if it's hungry or not. For you to mistake someone else's hunger for your own.

Carol Rifka Brunt

#70. More than once in the days that followed [Eustace] attempted to write it for them on the sand. But this never succeeded. In the first place Eustace (never having read the right books) had no idea how to tell a story straight.

C.S. Lewis

#71. Everyone has his own sound. I'm not going to presume how to tell anybody how to write.

Elmore Leonard

#72. There's a story in all of us. All we need to do is decide how to tell it" -Nicci Sefton

Nicci Sefton

#73. I believe we have a choice in this world about how to tell sad stories , on the one hand , we can sugercoat it. Nothing is too messed up that can't be fixed with a Peter Gabriel song, I like this version as much as the next girl does. It's just not the truth

John Green

#74. Don't believe everything you see. Look things up. Research them for yourself. Learn how to tell the difference between the lies you are being spoon-fed and the truth. The truth is always harder, because it requires an effort of will to obtain, and an effort of mind to understand.

Ron Wingrove

#75. I think a pilot is a pilot, no matter who's judging it, but I will say I am thinking a lot about how to tell stories for the series in a streaming environment where you can anticipate a huge portion of the audience will consume an entire season in the course of a day, two days or a week.

Frank Spotnitz

#76. Everything in life is arbitrary yet must be over-determined in literature. Jean McGarry knows how to tell a persuasive tale illuminating these truths.

Harold Bloom

#77. I have never learned how to tell somebody something good about myself; that should be a secret they must find out .

Joan Rivers

#78. A narrative voice with conviction is often hard to find. But not in baseball. The minors teach two lost American arts: how to chew tobacco and how to tell a story.

Thomas Boswell

#79. I am someone who's been in politics for 43 years and I know what I'm doing and what I should do. Have no doubt that I know how to tell the truth and to do so elegantly.

Fidel Castro

#80. Film-makers must decide what story to tell and how to tell it.

Jack Valenti

#81. The truth is we don't know the truth. We just live and learn how to tell the truth because we were born liars.

Auliq Ice

#82. But I don't know how to tell him all this. That I'm scared and I don't know how to be normal. I'm broken, just like him, and I'm not sure I can fix myself.

Carrie Ryan

#83. I've taught both screenwriting and playwriting, and playwriting is both much harder and much more rewarding. One can teach people how to tell a story in cinematic ways, but theater is a much more elusive craft.

David Ives

#84. I don't know how to tell a joke. I never tell jokes. I can tell stories that happened to me ... anecdotes. But never a joke.

Lucille Ball

#85. Do you know how to tell who the enemy is, Cassie?

Rick Yancey

#86. Too many musicians rush through everything with too many notes. I need time to take the picture. A ballad should be a ballad. It's important to understand what the song is saying, and learn how to tell the story. It takes time. I can't rush it. I really can't rush it.

Shirley Horn

#87. That is many poets don't know how to tell a story and they don't have a sense of how to put things in order to tell a story and we thought the poets could learn from fiction writers something about developing a character over time who wasn't just you and also creating a narrative structure.

Edward Hirsch

#88. All that I need now is someone with the brains and the know-how to tell me what I want.

Aimee Mann

#89. I get to tell the most interesting stories I know how to tell with the most interesting sentences I know how to compose - and people who aren't related to me read them. To be paid to write things that matter to me is extraordinary.

Amy Bloom

#90. You know how to tell if the teacher is hung over? Movie Day.

Jay Mohr

#91. Who taught you how to discern the Truth? Was it a big liar or a little liar or no liar at all? We cannot expect honesty from those we deal with if we don't even know how to tell when we're being lied to.

A. Antares

#92. A pause. It might have been pregnant. I've never been sure how to tell if a silence has conceived or not.

Lois Greiman

#93. And when they start talking, and they always do, you find that each of them has a story they want to tell. Everyone, no matter how old or young, has some lesson they want to teach. And I sit there and listen and learn all about life from people who have no idea how to live it.

Paul Neilan

#94. Tell me what you want?" His breath was warm against her lips.
"I want you."
"How? Give me permission, tell me it's okay to strip you naked, kiss you wherever the need takes me, and f**k you until you can't see straight."
"Yes, yes, please, all of that.

Dominique Eastwick

#95. Don't go in and tell somebody else how to run their business.

Carl Icahn

#96. I knew I must not join him, but how could I tell that to the one who taught me how to live?

Stephen Smith

#97. My first record wasn't even with the Fugees. I was signed to Big Beat Records, so I was signed back in 1989 to the label that the Knocks are on now. You can always tell which generation had the pulse based on how they see things.

Wyclef Jean

#98. I turned away, unexpectedly afraid to look at him. I was afraid of what he might be feeling, the depth of his loss, the extent of his fears. Will Traynor's life had been so far beyond the experiences of mine. Who was I to tell him how he should want to live it?

Jojo Moyes

#99. So when you ask me how string theory might be tested, I can tell you what's likely to happen at accelerators or some parts of the theory that are likely to be tested.

Edward Witten

#100. You know, people always ask me how I describe my music. First of all I tell them that's their job and then that also one day I hope to have things referred to as Martha Wainwright -esque.

Martha Wainwright