“Stand behind the stories that are real, not just reel.” — Chintha Sai Bhargav Reddy Copy Share Image
If you’re too rigid in your thinking you may miss some wonderful opportunities for storytelling. — Vince Gilligan Copy Share Image
It's the problem with fairy tales. From far away, they seem so perfect. But up close, they're just as complicated as real… — Soman Chainani Copy Share Image
My mother used 'Cinderella' as the antidote of what was in store for me. — Catherine Oxenberg Copy Share Image
“Think like magician, present like magician and perform like magician.” — Amit Kalantri Copy Share Image
All great literary works influence us as writers, not their stories as much as their storytelling ability. — Michael Scott Copy Share Image
Even a poor translator couldn't kill a style that moves with such narrative clarity. — William Zinsser Copy Share Image
Truth may be stranger than fiction on a plot and narrative basis, but fiction can investigate tone in a way that things… — Ray McKinnon Copy Share Image
In the best of all possible worlds, directors would obsess about the quality of their storytelling, and not the details of their… — Roger Ebert Copy Share Image
“Recalls The Treasure of the Sierra Madre, the better work of Jim Thompson (The Grifters; After Dark, My Sweet) and Thomas Berger’s… — Scott B. Smith Copy Share Image
“If you don't have a narrative, just make one up. You can always change it when you have more clarity. Any narrative… — L. R. W. Lee Copy Share Image
To try to write a grand cosmical drama leads necessarily to myth. To try to let knowledge substitute ignorance in increasingly larger… — Hannes Alfven Copy Share Image
You have a natural tendency to want an emotionally satisfying tale - and to make investments based on that - despite times… — Barry Ritholtz Copy Share Image
I do think any modern storyteller is influenced by the stories we all grow up with and become familiar with, our shared… — Ian Doescher Copy Share Image
The bedrock thing of country music is, it's about storytelling. I feel like I was able to find a niche because I… — Mary Chapin Carpenter Copy Share Image
The way you write dialogue is the same whether you're writing for movies or TV or games. We use movie scriptwriting software… — Sam Lake Copy Share Image
You get a lot of narrative energy from people who make really big mistakes, who act against their best interests, who do… — Kelly Link Copy Share Image
Writers imagine that they cull stories from the world. I'm beginning to believe that vanity makes them think so. That it's actually… — Arundhati Roy Copy Share Image
“Overnight, our neighbors began to look at us differently. Maybe it was the little girl down the road who no longer waved… — Julie Otsuka Copy Share Image
All your clear and pleasing sentences will fall apart if you don't keep remembering that writing is linear and sequential, that logic… — William Zinsser Copy Share Image
How often do we stand convinced of the truth of our early memories, forgetting that they are assessments made by a child?… — Benjamin Zander Copy Share Image
Even the pictures I was doing at college - a little narrative based on a butterfly catcher, or a chimney sweep -… — Tim Walker Copy Share Image
“fiction has enabled us not merely to imagine things, but to do so collectively. We can weave common myths such as the… — Yuval Noah Harari Copy Share Image
