#tellin

All great literature is one of two stories; a man goes on a journey or a stranger comes to town. ↗

— Leo Tolstoy

#storytelling #literature

We spend the first twelve months of our children's lives teaching them to walk and talk and the next twelve telling them to sit down and shut up. ↗

— Phyllis Diller

#children #down #first #lives #months

Truth disappears with the telling of it. ↗

— Lawrence Durrell

#telling #truth

The writing process, the way I go about it is I do whatever the beat feels like, whatever the beat is telling me to do. Usually when the beat comes on, I think of a hook or the subject I want to rap about almost instantly. Within four, eight bars of it playing I'm just like, 'Oh, OK. This is what I wanna do'. ↗

— Eminem

#almost #bars #beat #comes #eight

I love heels, I'm telling you. When I walk in flats, I get knee pain. ↗

— Sofia Vergara

#get #heels #i #i love #knee

I used to annoy my father by telling him how much I felt luck was with me. ↗

— Gene Tierney

#father #felt #him #how #i

I think it's important that we all try to give something to this medium, instead of just thinking about what is the most efficient way of telling a story or making an audience stay in a cinema. ↗

— Lars von Trier

#audience #cinema #efficient #efficient way #give

Nothing's worse than telling your family you got a pilot, hearing the pilot got picked up, and then finding out it's not in the fall lineup. ↗

— Dreama Walker

#family #finding #got #hearing #lineup

I love telling stories. I love the intimacy between the writer and reader. When you write sketches it's over in two minutes. When you write a book the characters have to have a bit of emotional depth. ↗

— David Walliams

#bit #book #characters #depth #emotional

Every great love starts with a great story... ↗

— Nicholas Sparks

#storytelling #love