Telling Stories Quotes - Page 9

• Despite the impression you may have from watching too much TV, movies are not about reproducing reality. Theyre about telling stories.

  Seth Shostak

  Reality, Stories, May

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• Here's the truth about telling stories with your life. It's going to sound like a great idea, and you're going to get excited about it, and then when it comes time to do the work, you're not going to want to do it. It's like that with writing books, and it's like that with life. People love to have lived a great story, but few people like the work it takes to make it happen. But joy costs pain.

  Donald Miller

  Pain, Book, Writing

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• Humans are, by nature, pattern-seeking, storytelling animals, and we are quite adept at telling stories about patterns whether they exist or not.

  Michael Shermer

  Animal, Stories, Patterns

  "Out of This World" by Michael Shermer, www.washingtonpost.com. November 21, 1999.

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• 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.

  Rachel Naomi Remen

  Children, People, Community

  Rachel Naomi Remen (2006). “Kitchen Table Wisdom: Stories that Heal, 10th Anniversary Edition”, p.22, Penguin

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• That’s how people live, by telling stories. What’s the first thing a kid says when he learns how to talk? “Tell me a story.” That’s how we understand who we are, where we come from. Stories are everything.

  Jeffrey Eugenides

  Kids, People, Stories

  Jeffrey Eugenides (2003). “Middlesex”, p.179, A&C Black

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• I think telling stories is like pushing something. Pushing against uncreation itself, maybe.

  Stephen King

  Thinking, Stories, Pushing

  Stephen King, Darrel Anderson (2005). “The Dark Tower VI: Song of Susannah”, Scribner Book Company

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• I was telling stories before I could write. I like to tell stories, and I like to talk to things. If you]ve read fairy tales, you know that everything can talk,from trees to chairs to tables to brooms. So I grew up thinking that, and I turned it into stories.

  J. California Cooper

  Writing, Thinking, Tree

  FaceBook post by J. California Cooper from May 15, 2012

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• It sounds trite, but I like telling stories.

  Rebecca Hall

  Sound, Stories

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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

  Alain de Botton

  Differences, Despair, Different

  Twitter post from Jan 08, 2013

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• I keep everything very simple. I like telling stories.

  Michael Fassbender

  Simple, Stories

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• 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

  Thinking, Important, Feels

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Hopefully life is long. Do stuff you will enjoy thinking about and telling stories about for many years to come. Do stuff you will want to brag about.

  Rachel Maddow

  Inspirational, Graduation, Thinking

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• The brain stays up all night telling stories while we sleep. We just call them dreams.

  Jonathan Gottschall

  Dream, Sleep, Night

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