Top 1200 Telling Stories Quotes & Sayings - Page 4

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

For girls and women, storytelling has a double and triple importance. Because the stories of our lives have been marginalized and ignored by history, and often dismissed and treated as 'gossip' within our own cultures and families, female human beings are more likely to be discouraged from telling our stories and from listening to each other with seriousness.

I love telling stories. I don't really think in terms of clear 'aims.'

People expect me to be, first and foremost, a storyteller. I lead by telling stories.

My mother was a very hard-working maid, and their stories are worth telling.

I keep everything very simple. I like telling stories.

....we ain't doing civil rights here. We just telling stories like they really happen.

And now you'll be telling stories of my coming back and they won't be false, and they won't be true but they'll be real

At the end of the day, filmmaking is all about telling stories, and I'm just doing my part.

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

Essentially, I'm a storyteller, and I make my living by telling stories, be they music or nonfiction or fiction.

Above all things, I delight in listening to stories, and sometimes in telling them.

I now do my own cabaret act, singing and telling stories about my life.

I've been a big fan of telling stories with young people that have a strong sense of reality.

I seem to enjoy telling stories with a central absence, with a lacuna tunnelled into them.

You spend so much time as a writer telling straight and linear stories.

This was what I liked most about my friends: just sitting around & telling stories.

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

Slick Rick has always been one of those guys real good at telling stories.

For me, growing-up music was always about telling stories.

I've sort of always been obsessed with telling stories and making things up.

I come from a family of storytellers. My grandmother was great at telling stories, and my mother was an amazing storyteller.

When I was a boy, unconsciously, spontaneously I learned the art of telling ironic stories.

Everybody is a story. When I was a child, people sat around kitchen tables and told their stories. We don't do that so much anymore. Sitting around the table telling stories is not just a way of passing time. It is the way the wisdom gets passed along. The stuff that helps us to live a life worth remembering.

I love telling stories that allow people to be less afraid to tell theirs.

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

I love telling stories. But I believe that nobody could teach you to direct a movie.

You can only really get to any truth by telling peoples' stories.

Everyone's always telling themselves stories about their lives, writers or not.

The difference between hope and despair is a different way of telling stories from the same facts.

Awareness is the key. Do we see the stories that we're telling ourselves and question their validity?

Digression is my passion. I love telling the main stories, but in some ways, what I love most is using those narratives as a way of stringing together the interesting stories that people have kind of forgotten, and that are kind of surprising. The problem is, how do you pare stories away so that the book doesn't become a distracting jumble of material, and readers lose focus? In my experience, there's really only one way to do that. I pack it all in with the rough draft, then count on myself and my trusted readers to tell me what's good and what's not good.

I've loved comics since I was very young, and I've always liked telling stories.

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. Maybe they would have been less glamorous than films, but I would continue to tell stories.

I encourage all novelists to move to TV right now, that is the way to go. I was living in New York working at a bank as a day job about seven years ago. I was writing novels at night and decided, "Wow, there's so much great TV, and they're telling the complex, interesting, psychologically nuanced stories that, as a novelist, you dream of telling. And it's a healthy, exciting, thriving medium - that's where I need to be."

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

All too often, white documentary filmmakers are the ones telling the stories of people of color.

I'm most interested in working and learning from different people and telling good stories.

You get guys around a campfire, and they start telling their stories. That's the fellowship that they want to be in.

We're always telling stories, we're supposed to be reacting, a man and woman on the ice, it's romantic.

I want to contribute to the culture and keep great writers alive by telling the stories of their lives.

I'm consistently telling stories about the value of the human condition and connectedness and things like that.

I'm addicted to when people are bringing you around their country, telling you their stories. They become so enthusiastic, so passionate.

One mark of a second-rate mind is to be always telling stories.

Spreading the positivity is just as important as telling the difficult stories.

Telling some stories, Miss Leroy says, is committing suicide.

The kinds of stories I want to be a part of telling are about delving into what it is to be a human being.

I love telling stories, and am almost entirely unable to keep a secret.

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.

I like to be fulfilled in telling stories and in creating, but I'm just a curious person.

We're always just telling stories, and stories are always just approximations of the truth. It's never the truth exactly.

What's interesting about the U.K. is that it celebrates an alternative voice. It's up for telling new stories.

Telling the proper stories is as if you were approaching the throne of Heaven in a fiery chariot.

I've heard stories of other people that are similar stories to me - their mother or father passing away. People have come out to me on Instagram. It's amazing that they can tell me and confide in me. I always want to take the time and write these long messages telling them how much that means to me.

In luggage claim at the Minneapolis airport, the guy came up to me and said, "Maybe you're wrong, maybe stories do matter." I wrote that on a scrap of paper and put it above my desk. That was the thing that pushed me through to the end of telling Despereaux, that comment, "Maybe they do...maybe stories matter."

Telling stories never fails to produce good in the universe.

I love the adventure of telling all types of stories and trying to conquer each one.

I had an idea in the beginning to do a book about some of the events that I had covered, just various stories that I've covered. Reporters spend a lot of time telling each other tales about how they covered stories, and that's what this book started out to be.

What I'm passionate about is telling stories which mean something to me.

I'm afraid there are no magical tips. There is no secret. Writing is all about telling stories as well as you can.