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“My very first lessons in the art of telling stories took place in the kitchen . . . my mother and three or four of her friends. . . told stories. . .with effortless art and technique. They were natural-born storytellers in the oral tradition.”

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Author:Paule Marshall

“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.”

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Author:J. California Cooper

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

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Author:Rumi

“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!”

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Author:Timothy Dalton

“We need art. We've been telling stories since the beginning. As human beings, we need it for our survival.”

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Author:Lili Taylor

“Hollywood has its own way of telling stories. I was just telling stories that I was familiar with. And it's what I want to do in the future: I want to take my audio cinema and put it on the screen.”

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Author:Ice T

“However much I may like to talk about or be interested in a more philosophical or moral agenda, [film] is, ultimately, about narrative. And it's about telling stories that are engaging and dramatic.”

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Author:Edward Zwick

“There's no other way to learn about it, except through documentaries. I encourage documentarians to continue telling stories about World War II. I think documentaries are the greatest way to educate an entire generation that doesn't often look back to learn anything about the history that provided a safe haven for so many of us today. Documentaries are the first line of education, and the second line of education is dramatization, such as The Pacific.”

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Author:Steven Spielberg

“I'm not a writer because I want to make money. I'm a writer because I'm a very slow thinker, but I do care about thinking, and the only way I know how to think with any kind of finesse is by telling stories.”

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Author:Gregory Maguire

“I now possess the tools as a producer and a songwriter to really just go out and make smashes all day long. I could make an album full of smash records that got pop appeal. But my heart is in hip-hop. My heart is in telling stories. And it's like therapy for me.”

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Author:J. Cole

“I like telling stories of imperfect people because most people are imperfect.”

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Author:David S. Goyer

“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.”

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Book:Talking Back: To Presidents, Dictators, and Assorted Scoundrels

Source: Talking Back: To Presidents, Dictators, and Assorted Scoundrels

“When a friend needs consoling, do not give in to the temptation of telling stories similar to theirs of disaster or bereavement. It is something people often do to show empathy but nothing is more tiresome than other people's problems when you want to focus on your own. Listening is by far the best form of consolation.”

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Author:Giles Andreae

“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.”

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Author:Joyce Carol Oates

“There's a great tradition in storytelling that's thousands of years old, telling stories about kings and their palaces, and that's really what I wanted to do.”

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Author:Aaron Sorkin

“I'm a writer. I just love telling stories.”

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Author:Kurt Busiek

“Ever since I can remember I was telling stories and had a huge interest in other people and what made them tick.”

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Author:Candace Bushnell

“I've been acting since second grade, telling stories, making my parents laugh here and there, so I'm hoping my "thing" is acting. But I also make a really good bread pudding.”

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Author:Anna Camp

“Writing wasn't about making money. I wanted to find fulfillment in writing and telling stories, and that's what's driven me.”

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Author:Ted Dekker

“Somewhere along the line, I realized that I liked telling stories, and I decided that I would try writing. Ten years later, I finally got a book published. It was hard. I had no skills. I knew nothing about the business of getting published. So I had to keep working at it.”

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Author:Janet Evanovich

“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.”

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Author:Patrick J. Adams

“It sounds trite, but I like telling stories.”

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Author:Rebecca Hall

“The idea for actors is to make a living telling stories, so if you can do that, then you’re way ahead of the game.”

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Author:John C. McGinley

“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.”

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Author:Taylor Kitsch