I'm sure I'll also be very attentive to how tension is…

I felt like I was some kind of primitive spring-loaded machine, placed under far more tension than it had ever been built to sustain,…

— Elizabeth Gilbert

I honestly would tell anyone young to start looking at stories and learning story, because I think that’s the next step after people go,…

— Bob Odenkirk

'That is the story. Do you think there is any way of making them believe it?' ' Not in the first generation', he said,…

— Plato

My sense is that we are missing a huge part of the human story. I think it's possible, indeed probable, that we are a…

— Graham Hancock

I think it's such a challenge to tell a story, and I think, to be honest, the shorter, the clearer, the better.

— Ashley Williams

It's a wonderful experience to be reading a story and think you've got things all figured out, and then suddenly, it all goes upside-down…

— Fiona Barton

I think you make the movie in your head that you have to make, and you have to get it out of you. You…

— Ti West

“Literature works from mind to mind and is more progenitive. It is at once more universal and more poignantly particular. If it speaks of…

— J.R.R. Tolkien

I don't think I've ever really pursued telling my story, but I think things come to you at the right time.

— Charisma Carpenter

I'm a true believer in story. I think when you just tell people to think, people tend to get resistant and defensive and feel…

— Jordan Peele

I do think there's a certain savviness to be able to recognize the way people want a good story, and I think that we…

— Kevin Young

The way to tell a really big story, I think, is to tell a really small story.

— Bruce Feiler

It's the same old story, all you think about is money.

— Rafael Nadal

I don't really decide what the core of the story is before I write. I write to figure out what the story is. And…

— Greta Gerwig

No matter what I'm talking about, I can involve you into the story where you think it's you doing it. You're living it. I…

— Larry Winget