Italo Calvino Quotes

I'm a conduit for telling people's stories. It's a privilege.

I just want people to hear me and my story.

Storytelling is about listening in any media.

'Tell to Win' reveals the key elements that tellers of purposeful stories utilize to engage their listeners and turn them into viral advocates of the tellers' goals.

You have to figure out who the right person is to tell the story. And often, people who are very self-aware will only sound as if they are pontificating if they tell the story.

The game is just one long conversation, and I'm anticipating that, and I will say things like 'Did you know that?' or 'You're probably wondering why.' I'm really just conversing rather than just doing play-by-play. I never thought of myself as having a style. I don't use key words. And the best thing I do? I shut up.

No story lives unless someone wants to listen.

But stories don't only speak; they are spoken to, by the circumstances under which they are written.

A man who tells secrets or stories must think of who is hearing or reading, for a story has as many versions as it has readers.

I love entertaining and I love storytelling.

I write what I hear.

I just wanted to tell good stories that helped explain the world to people.

For screenwriting, when you're writing, you're talking to hundreds - hundreds of people who might be interpreting what you're saying. When you're writing a comic book, you're really only talking to the artist.

I'm not seeking for answers; I just want to tell stories and state my opinion.

Engagement is always better then disengagement. If we don't talk, somebody else will.

There's a difference between telling a story and not providing an explanation because you just don't do it well or pull it off.

I hate to write! But I love to talk, so I'm told that when people read my books, it like I'm there just talking with them.

Telling stories and having them received is so important. That dialogue is everything. I tell my students all the time that what separates us as human beings is our ability to hold stories. Our narrative history. There is so much power in that. Storytelling is our human industry.

I think acting, for me, is about play. It's about time, and it's about feeling, like there's a story to tell and I can tell it through my body and my voice.

If you're singing, you're telling a story. So to tell it and tell it right, that's it.

When I grew up, a director was Cecil B DeMille, a guy sitting down with a megaphone speaking. He was the voice of God, the image of God. When I went to start making docs, I quickly turned the megaphone to my ear not to my mouth. It's more about funneling in the words and listening as doc filmmaker.

I always encourage other people to share a story and voices. That is so important.

If I want to tell a story to 10 people, I don't need a star. If I want to tell it to 10,000 people, the best case scenario is you get an actor and a star.

The eagerness of a listener quickens the tongue of a narrator.

But if we have people who have the power to tell a story, there will always be readers.