Telling Stories Quotes (page 21)

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• world
• else
• forget the world

Don't forget - no one else sees the world the way you do, so no one else can tell the stories that you have to tell. Charles de Lint

• tells
• sizes
• size

Whatever story you want to tell, tell it at the right size. Richard Linklater

• motivational
• love
• motivation

All directors are storytellers, so the motivation was to tell the story I wanted to tell. That's what I love. Spike Lee

• watch
• interesting
• me

I wanted to tell a story that interested me as much in the telling as in the watching. Neil LaBute

• daughter
• country
• women

I know this president. And I can tell you that he cares deeply about the next generation of young women in this country - his daughters, and everyone's daughters. President Obama had the courage to stand with Sandra Fluke. Without hesitation, he defended her right to tell her story. Nancy Keenan

• kindness
• empty
• you

With Westerns you have the landscape is important, and it's empty, and only you populate it. When you populate it, you can tell any kind story that Shakespeare told, you can tell in a Western. Lawrence Kasdan

• inspirational
• change
• life

People come up to me and tell me how I changed their life and I've inspired them. And they tell me their stories, and that keeps me going. Valerie Bertinelli

• great
• greatness
• wellness

I have a great story to tell... and I tell it well. No holds barred. Aishwarya Rai

• book
• believe
• angel

If an angel should come and tell a different story from that in the Book, don't believe it. Dwight L. Moody

• thoughts
• fall
• hero

You may glory in a team triumphant, but you fall in love with a team in defeat. Losing after great striving is the story of man, who was born to sorrow, whose sweetest songs tell of saddest thought, and who, if he is a hero, does nothing in life as becomingly as leaving it. Roger Kahn

• she
• wise
• world

You’re just the romantic age,” she continued- “fifty. Twenty-five is too worldly wise; thirty is apt to be pale from overwork; forty is the age of long stories that take a whole cigar to tell; sixty is- oh, sixty is too near seventy; but fifty is the mellow age. I love fifty.” - Hildegarde F. Scott Fitzgerald

• different
• may
• society

Edward Morgan Forster, OM (January 1, 1879? June 7, 1970), was an English novelist, short story writer, and essayist. He is known best for his ironic and well-plotted novels examining class difference and hypocrisy in early 20th-century British society. Forster's humanistic impulse toward understanding and sympathy may be aptly summed up in the epigraph to his 1910 novel Howards End: "Only connect." Forster was gay, but this fact was not made public during his lifetime. His posthumously... E. M. Forster

• thoughts
• women
• hope

Let me hasten to add that I am not at all like Jane Eyre, who must have given hope to so many plain women who tell their stories in the first person, nor have I ever thought of myself as being like her. Barbara Pym

• story
• stories
• plot

The story is not in the plot but in the telling. Ursula K. Le Guin

• time
• writing
• believe

Yes, it was scary, but every time I got a frisson of fear I tried to remember what Frank Quinn was always telling me. "Susan, believe in yourself. You are the person writing your story. Susan Boyle