Sophie Marceau Quotes

I guess I've always just been naturally inclined to tell stories.

I think I've become a better storyteller over the years.

I've always said I have one skill. That skill - if I have it at all - is storytelling.

Everyone seems quite good at stories and making them up.

I always like to tell a story.

A good writer is basically a story teller, not a scholar or a redeemer of mankind.

Storytelling is my currency. It's my only worth. The only thing of value I have in this life is my ability to tell a story, whether in print, orating, writing it down or having people acting it out.

I tell stories. That's what I do. I've always told stories.

I can make up stories with the best of them. I've been telling stories since I was a little kid.

People love stories. They need stories.

I love working fictional characters into a piece of history. It plays to my strengths, which are characterization and dialogue, and assists me in my admitted weakness, plot.

People still love a good story, and I don't think that will change.

I'm just trying to tell a nice story. Whether you're a writer or a producer, all you want to do is tell a good yarn.

Audiences still crave storytelling.

I always had an interest in telling stories.

I just want to be a good storyteller.

I used to be a good story writer. I could make up a story with like, eight people in it and tell you where they all lived, what color their houses are.

I tell a good story.

I enjoy stories that can spark a conversation.

I can't tell a story just by deciding to tell a story, do it in a didactic way. I need to have my own emotion, to feel, 'Wow, there is something I can discover, I can create.'

I was an actor for a little bit. That's when I started to understand fiction - and that one of the great things about fiction is that you're dependent on the characters as much as they're dependent on you.

When you write fiction, you have an ideal reader in your mind who's sort of you but smarter.

What interests me in writing a novel is taking really remote voices, characters, and stories and beginning to create some kind of web.

Storytelling, in print or speech, needs vital energy.

The trouble with telling a good story is that it invariably reminds the other fellow of a dull one.