Top 100 Quotes About Telling Stories
#1. I like telling stories of imperfect people because most people are imperfect.
David S.Goyer
#2. Since I was a child, I've liked telling stories. Maybe because my father's a director, I grew up loving stories. I'm not good at spinning them at a dinner table because I do go on a bit, but I love writing them, and directing is just a way of editing the story.
Mary Stuart Masterson
#4. Writing is powerful. Whether it's a little girl hiding from the Nazis in an attic, or Amnesty International writing letters on behalf of political prisoners, the power of telling stories is usually what causes change.
Erin Gruwell
#5. Gaza Writes Back' provides conclusive evidence that telling stories is an act of life, that telling stories is resistance, and that telling stories shapes our memories.
Refaat Alareer
#6. Manchester Youth theater, then the National Student Theater Company, and later, my degree course, all helped form my love of telling stories and directing.
Justin Chadwick
#7. A visual understanding of great composition and how to use a camera and expensive lenses can be learned, but drive and a real hunger for making photos and telling stories ... I don't think that part can be learned. You either have that inside, or you don't.
Aaron Huey
#8. I can't imagine a mental life, a spiritual existence, not inextricably bound up with language of a formal, mediated nature. Telling stories, choosing an appropriate language with which to tell the story: This seems to me quintessentially human, one of the great adventures of our species.
Joyce Carol Oates
#9. Have I told you about Christ?" "Ghost-born-man-walking-on-water-telling-stories-dead-on-tree.
Robert Holdstock
#10. Writing is solitary. You spend so much time alone and in your own mind, telling stories.
Ruth Ozeki
#11. The difference between hope and despair is a different way of telling stories from the same facts.
Alain De Botton
#13. The brain stays up all night telling stories while we sleep. We just call them dreams.
Jonathan Gottschall
#14. Some people believe in telling stories. Some believe in doing things about which stories will be told in times to come.
Sharad Vivek Sagar
#15. I like being part of good movies and telling stories that mean something to me. I also like playing characters that I look up to.
Katie Holmes
#16. I love telling stories, that's it. I love it. That's the word I would choose to describe what I love the most.
Jeff Probst
#17. We're always just telling stories, and stories are always just approximations of the truth. It's never the truth exactly.
Brit Marling
#18. The stories in 'Jim the Boy' are either made up or appropriated from some source other than my family. But the idea of a family telling stories to the kid, often to impart some kind of lesson, that's very familiar, and that's the way that I grew up.
Tony Earley
#19. Data, I think, is one of the most powerful mechanisms for telling stories. I take a huge pile of data and I try to get it to tell stories.
Steven Levitt
#20. I want to be scared. I want to keep taking insane risks. I want to be scared because you're going to grow through that whether you want to or not. I don't want to play the same guy. I want to keep throwing curveballs to you guys and keep telling stories.
Taylor Kitsch
#21. Millions wanted to see shows written, directed, and acted by people of colour telling stories about themselves. Duh.
Jeff Chang
#22. That is how we always keep our beloved dead alive, isn't it? By telling stories about them; true stories.
James D. Bradley
#23. For me, I just want to continue telling stories - whether it's musically or theatrically, this is what I love to do. So, I want to create more.
AJ Michalka
#24. I like telling stories about people with problems. I can't really put it much simpler than that.
Steve Buscemi
#25. Mark Twain had a way of telling stories that shifts your consciousness away from labels.
Val Kilmer
#26. I want to continue to make beautiful movies. The most important thing is to be a part of beautiful stories, that's all I want. So I don't care if it's a Hollywood movie or an independent movie or a Spanish or American movie. I care about telling stories.
Melanie Laurent
#27. I love being a storyteller. I love telling stories.
Henry Rollins
#28. We are always telling stories to ourselves, about ourselves...But we can control those stories...I believe that! Events in our life have meaning because we choose to give it to them
Dan Chaon
#29. Telling stories has been a compulsion of mine since I could physically say, 'Once upon a time ... ' But in high school, I realized I could study creative writing in college and actually pursue it as a viable career.
Victoria Aveyard
#30. 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
#31. She sighed once, wishing she had a talent for the details of telling stories. She wasn't bad at themes, she mused, but she could never figure out how to turn a theme into an engaging tale.
Nora Roberts
#32. You know," King said, "I'm not much good at telling stories. That sounds like a paradox, but it's not; it's the reason I write them down.
Stephen King
#33. It is futile to spend time telling stories about the fleetness of each day.
Dejan Stojanovic
#34. So finally, I can feel a sort of pride in all my family - Mum, Lynn, Corin, Tasha, my cousin Gemma - because, I think how wonderful that this troop of gypsies can carry on telling stories.
Joely Richardson
#35. In little pockets of conversation, old men were telling stories of ancient floods. Women were talking of about how much rain there'd been in other towns
Paragould, Lepanto, and Manila.
John Grisham
#36. My dad was a journalist. He was in Rwanda right after the genocide. In Berlin when the wall came down. He was always disappearing and coming back with amazing stories. So telling stories for a living made sense to me.
Patrick J. Adams
#37. When you direct your first film, you always start by telling stories that you are familiar with.
Sophie Marceau
#38. As Long as we Keep telling stories about people we lost, they'll never go away. (from Bonus features 'Big Hero 6')
Jeph Loeb
#39. It's horrid to be called a Shakespearean actor because that's incredibly limiting, and we love acting. We like telling stories; anything that excites us we want to be a part of. Science fiction is fun, too!
Timothy Dalton
#40. I'm always interested in telling stories that have a message because I really do believe that film is so powerful.
Naomie Harris
#41. The important things that stay are the moments spent listening to people singing, telling stories, enjoying life.
Paulo Coelho
#42. If I had not been successful as a director, then I'm sure I would still be telling stories. I would have continued on 16mm or found a different medium through which to tell them.
Pedro Almodovar
#43. To make movies you just have to want it enough. You have to have the passion for telling stories. You have to get by the love-of-movies aspect. You can't just be a movie fan.
John Carpenter
#44. 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
#45. Whether I'm telling stories in songs or if directing is the next step, being a storyteller is what I like doing.
Kelly Jones
#46. Storytellers, by the very act of telling, communicate a radical learning that changes lives and the world: telling stories is a universally accessible means through which people make meaning.
Chris Cavanaugh
#48. I don't actually see that much difference between telling stories in journalism and telling them on film. The tools are very different, but the basic idea is the same.
Peter Landesman
#49. Every novel is brand-new. It's never been written before in the history of the world. At the same time, it's merely the latest in a long line of narratives - not just novels, but narratives generally - since humans began telling stories to themselves and each other.
Thomas C. Foster
#50. Writing wasn't about making money. I wanted to find fulfillment in writing and telling stories, and that's what's driven me.
Ted Dekker
#51. When modern writers gave up telling stories, they gave up the greatest thing we had.
Howard Nemerov
#52. I have 60-plus videos on YouTube and over 30 million views. Of those 60, only three or four are branded videos. I built that audience by telling stories the way I like to tell them.
Casey Neistat
#53. Facebook is really about communicating and telling stories ... We think that people can really help spread awareness of organ donation and that they want to participate in this to their friends. And that can be a big part of helping solve the crisis that's out there.
Mark Zuckerberg
#54. I shot many scenes of Hamburg, albums full of postcard motifs, and I discarded almost all of them. I ride my bike through Hamburg every day. I go shopping here, I go to the doctor - and yet I no longer have the eye for telling stories about this damn city, even though I love it.
Fatih Akin
#55. Television has - particularly at the HBO level in the United States - become a completely new genre. Something like Deadwood or The Wire is a whole new thing - there was no equivalent to that medium before. It's like a new way of telling stories.
William Gibson
#56. I remember myself at 10 years old telling stories to my sisters and brother. This is something I did through my adolescence and even through my twenties.
Pedro Almodovar
#57. Every now and then, people will recognize me at restaurants or Universal Studios or something. I'll always take a picture with them if they want. I mean, that's what telling stories and acting for a living are for - for the people.
Matthew Moy
#59. I began observing, making paintings of my surroundings, taking a vow of silence, listening, composing music, writing, and making time for formal education. Then I started telling stories.
John Francis
#60. 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
#61. She was so tired of the old way of telling stories, all those too-worn narrative paths, the familiar plot thickets, the fat social novels. She needed something messier, something sharper, something like a bomb going off.
Lauren Groff
#62. I keep trying to train myself to stop saying 'filmmaker' and start saying 'storyteller.' We're telling stories.
Christine Vachon
#63. 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
#64. Other kids grew up telling stories about the Pilot," Caleb says. "But I grew up watching him fly.
Ally Condie
#65. I thought I wanted to be a playwright because I was interested in stories and telling stories.
Francis Ford Coppola
#66. Language is material to shape and mold, not only a transparent or invisible medium for communication, business contracts, or telling stories.
Kenneth Goldsmith
#67. As long as I could hold a pencil, I was drawing and telling stories and making jokes. I've just been lucky that no one ever stopped me, and now I can do that for a living.
Alex Hirsch
#68. Marketing is the act of telling stories about the things we make - stories that sell and stories that spread.
Seth Godin
#69. Comedy, it's a way for me to keep my acting chops. It's like a free acting class, to get up in front of a live audience. You get to have fun telling stories.
Gabrielle Dennis
#70. When you're telling stories, you are actually trying to illuminate some portion of the truth in an artful way. The story may immediately seem to be a lie, but it's like an impressionistic painting - you see the light and the color better than you would with a photo-realistic piece.
Christopher Moore
#71. I love telling stories from a kid's point of view because they don't really see all the obstacles in front of them. They're resilient, and sometimes adults can steal that from them.
George Tillman Jr.
#72. I feel like in telling stories, there are the things the audience thinks are important, and then there are the things that are actually important.
J.J. Abrams
#73. My filmmaking really began with technology. It began through technology, not through telling stories, because my 8mm movie camera was the way into whatever I decided to do.
Steven Spielberg
#74. My parents and I always put great emphasis on telling stories that appeal to a child's sense of humor.
Mike Berenstain
#75. I get my ideas for books from my own kids and sometimes from other children. Often when I am telling stories I will say: I am going to make up a new story.
Robert Munsch
#76. Ever since I can remember I was telling stories and had a huge interest in other people and what made them tick.
Candace Bushnell
#77. I really love sort of classical cinema where people were telling stories with very little dialogue, and people were using the camera in a really interesting way.
Alex Winter
#78. I really said, 'Okay, this is just the right job for me. This is really what I need to be doing: telling stories through music in lots of different styles of music.'
Christopher Lennertz
#79. In my family, telling stories is just a way of life.
Helen Oyeyemi
#80. In documentary filmmaking, there's a tradition of telling stories about victims. We often do that from a very patronizing place, but mostly we do it from a very selfish place, to reassure ourselves that our lives are in sympathy and solidarity with the victims.
Joshua Oppenheimer
#81. 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
#82. I'm driven by telling stories, I love telling stories.
Phil Keoghan
#83. More than reading - much more than reading, in fact - I developed a love for telling stories from listening to two parents who really knew how to do it. And it really is an art.
Robert Kurson
#84. I got a Super 8 camera when I was eight years old, and I just wanted to tell stories - I love telling stories.
Brett Ratner
#85. I feel very privileged that I get to spend my life telling stories that mean something to people.
Mary Stuart Masterson
#86. Fiction is an urgent business. It is the Dying Us telling stories to the Dying Us, trying to crack the nonsense in our heads open with a big hammer pronto, before Death arrives.
George Saunders
#87. 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
#88. 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
#89. I might do a film someday for the collection. I love designing sets and creating environments, in film school and for my own presentations. I love telling stories.
Pamela Love
#90. Even the pictures I was doing at college - a little narrative based on a butterfly catcher, or a chimney sweep - the images were always telling stories. They were all scenarios and moods which I storyboarded and worked through - it's exactly what I do now.
Tim Walker
#91. The human race has been telling stories since it began.
Doris Lessing
#92. I would definitely not rule out doing television, because I think it's a great medium for telling stories.
Chris Pratt
#93. I was very fortunate that a teacher saw that I read a lot and got bored very easily and had a lot of energy, so she said, 'You've got to go to this youth theater.' I joined Manchester Youth Theatre when I was really young, and I just loved putting on and being involved in plays and telling stories.
Justin Chadwick
#94. The mind never stops telling stories - not even when we're asleep.
Russ Harris
#95. Telling stories never fails to produce good in the universe.
Mary Pipher
#96. With female-oriented movies, unless it's something like 'Bridesmaids' or a romantic comedy, you've got to really worry about your opening weekend. And I'm always telling stories about women, not younger women, and it's just a much tougher audience to get to the movie theater.
Callie Khouri
#97. As an artist, I am interested in telling stories that haven't been told before, stories that are going to affect people, and also stories that shine light on areas of history that haven't had light shined on them before.
Naomie Harris
#98. Sometimes I think I'm a one-trick pony because I'm not very inventive about new ways of telling stories.
Sara Paretsky
#99. Most of my books came from when I was telling stories.
Robert Munsch
#100. When I entered college, it was to study liberal arts. At the University of Pennsylvania, I studied English literature, but I fell in love with broadcasting, with telling stories about other people's exploits.
Andrea Mitchell
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