Story is what happens to people.

“A story happens when two equally appealing forces, or characters, or ideas try to occupy the same place at the same time, and they're…

— Amy Hempel

In a movie, you work three months to tell a story that happens in two hours. In a Mexican soap opera, you work one…

— Diego Luna

Sometimes the life story that happens in books can happen in real life…movies aren't the only thing that have real life written in it!!

— Shar-rae

If you ask me, the place that a story happens is as equal character. It's almost like an ecological viewpoint: These people are living…

— Mike Mills

In a very real way, one writes a story to find out what happens in it. Before it is written it sits in the…

— Samuel R. Delany

Well, I think the main message is there is more to your story. There is more than what happens between the crib and the…

— Max Lucado

Once, I thought I had a novel, and it turned out it was only a short story. I wrote about 800 pages, but it…

— Richard Bausch

“Secondly, you can spend your whole life being a story that happens to somebody else. You can twist and cram and shave down every…

— Laurie Penny

That's what I love about documentary filmmaking, we never know where the story is going, we don't know what is going to happen next,…

— Gordon Quinn

I'm not first and foremost interested in story and the what-happens, but I'm interested in who's telling it and how they're telling it and…

— Amy Hempel

We are wearing coats of trust. When one tells a story this is what happens.

— Terry Tempest Williams

There's an attitude that I have where I bring the art to the table and the writer brings the writing to the table, but…

— Brian Stelfreeze

Actors are merely the medium through which a story happens.

— Ian Mckellen

Compelling characters are not cogs in the machine of your plot; they are human beings to whom the story happens.

— David Corbett

I have absolutely no interest in playing the young male lead around which a story happens.

— Taron Egerton