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As I say, I'm a discourse advocate. What form it comes is less important to me than the fact that there is discourse.

— Jim Lehrer

With sociolinguistics, after covering the basics of the field, I focused on discourse analysis.

— Carrie Brownstein

Writing is incidental to my primary objective, which is spinning a good yarn. I view myself as a storyteller more than a writer. The…

— Ashwin Sanghi

“Narrative, in short. is more than literature, it is the way we understand our lives. If literature merely supplied entertainment, then it wouldn't be…

— Robert N. Bellah

Well, if storytelling is important, then your narrative ability, or your ability to put into words or use what someone else has put into…

— Howard Gardner

I didn't study English literature - I studied philosophy at university - so Kierkegaard, Nietzsche - these people are among the most important writers…

— Sheila Heti

I certainly think its very important that writers as citizens - not necessarily as writers, but just as ordinary citizens - should talk about…

— Vikram Seth

Narratives are very important to me.

— Liza Soberano

I do find stories - or literary fiction - an apt form for analyzing the world. And especially for trying to imagine the other.…

— Jim Shepard

I certainly think it's very important that writers as citizens - not necessarily as writers, but just as ordinary citizens - should talk about…

— Vikram Seth

Our audience holds us to an incredibly high standard of continuity and emotional authenticity. We don't toy with that, but oftentimes we write stories,…

— Jeff Pinkner

“In our modern world, this elemental quality of storytelling is denied. We live today in a world in which everything has its place and…

— Michael Richardson