Doe Quote by Albert Renger-Patzsch

I have also led you astray by talking of technique as if it were something that could be separated from the rest of the…

— Flannery O'Connor

Every object tells a story if you know how to read it.

— Henry Ford

We interpret the world through stories... everybody makes in their own way sense of things, but if you have stories it helps.

— Paula Rego

It's a fun thing to do, to put yourself in the service of something if you think you can add an interpretation. It's no…

— Joss Whedon

Technique in the minds of many is something rigid, something like a formula that you impose on the material; but in the best stories…

— Flannery O'Connor

Telling a story is the way of exploring so many different things - human behavior, society, whatever existence.

— Yorgos Lanthimos

The best way to truly understand narrative art is to experience it.

— George Lucas

I think the story should always determine the visual approach. There are situations where you want things to feel alive and like life, and…

— Judd Apatow

You devise ways to tell a story that complies with your sensibility. Style and method are really extensions of your present sensibility.

— Aleksandar Hemon

I believe that the way someone speaks and acts tells their story. You can read a person from cover to cover upon appearance and…

— Anonymous

I think that the way that I write stories is by instinct. You have some basic ideas - a character, or an image, or…

— Dan Chaon

Stories are told over time, and so they naturally accrue meanings.

— John Edgar Wideman