The Souvenir is an incredibly specific story, but people…

The specific story line that people have responded to the most has been the horror of bathing suit shopping.

— Cathy Guisewite

I have not lost any of my crazy, fearless, raw, soulful, eclectic side and I plan on continuing to tell universal stories in an…

— Janelle Monae

When I was writing stories about Chinese American characters in my fiction classes, I'd get comments like, 'You should consider writing more universal stories.'…

— Jenny Zhang

The best stories are universal stories that have been told for as long as humanity has existed it's just figuring out new ways to…

— James Frey

That larger story in 'Salvage the Bones' is just about survival, and I think that, in the end, there are things about this novel…

— Jesmyn Ward

I'm a storyteller who wants to tell untold, meaningful, universal stories in unforgettable ways. I want to do it all, study it all, and…

— Janelle Monae

I insist that through specificity, honesty, and diversity, who gets to hold the storytelling stick, you can have really universal stories that everyone can…

— Greta Lee

I've made it my mission to make movies starring African American actors and about the African American experience and put them in the mainstream.…

— Malcolm D. Lee

In twenty-first-century America, our stories have become one and the same: we work to consume, we live to consume, we are what we consume.

— Sandra Tsing Loh

Because my writing time has always been very limited, I try to be very choosy about which stories I work on. There are many…

— Ken Liu

To have Hollywood tell me or other women like me that we're not a market that interests them is silly. Good stories work.

— Phyllida Lloyd

Humans like stories. Humans need stories. Stories are good. Stories work. Story clarifies and captures the essence of the human spirit. Story, in all…

— Jasper Fforde

There are definitely a lot of roles I didn't get based off of the way I look, but I'm not going to let that…

— Alia Shawkat

I think we do have our true, original stories that work. I can tell you that 'The King's Speech,' which we did, became a…

— Harvey Weinstein

“I don’t recommend working with larger stories and breaking them down into technical items, often called Tasks. If we use Tasks, the business people…

— Anonymous