Grain Quote by Anonymous

It goes against the American storytelling grain to have someone in a situation he can't get out of, but I think this is very…

— Kurt Vonnegut

Somebody gets into trouble, then gets out of it again. People love that story. They never get tired of it.

— Kurt Vonnegut

I think sometimes a narrative can come out of a single word.

— Ben Gibbard

I think that inevitably, the trouble our characters go through is a kind of metaphor for what's happening in ourselves.

— Alice Mattison

I think that storytelling, at its essence, allows us to feel like we all suffer the same insanity or a similar insanity of existence:…

— David Harbour

It's the tradition of American writers getting away in order to see the country - to get a better view.

— Laurie Anderson

Whoever is writing in the United States is using the American Dream as an ironical pole of his story. People elsewhere tend to accept,…

— Arthur Miller

Personal narrative is one of the few things where people don't get caught up in fighting over esoteric rhetoric.

— Hasan Minhaj

The idea of us telling a story where a character doesn't get everything he wants at the end is one of the relatable things…

— Dan Scanlon

I think this is when most people give up on their stories. They come out of college wanting to change the world, wanting to…

— Donald Miller

The American story is a story of great moments and dreadful moments.

— Alexis Denisof

“What seems worst of all, though, is that even the leaders don't recognize this. The greatest danger of the whole mess is that all…

— Zoltan Istvan