Everything Quote by Brian J. Smith

People are hungry for stories. It's part of our very being.

— Studs Terkel

Storytelling comes naturally to humans, but since we live in an unnatural world, we sometimes need a little help doing what we'd naturally do.

— Dan Harmon

It's a human desire to be scared. On some level, that's how we survived - that sense of fear and danger. Our lives are…

— Noah Hawley

“The underlying and more ominous question is whether the story of our species — the greater human narrative — has simply become too enormous,…

— Steve Almond

We have to listen to other people's stories. That's the thing. And that's the only way that we eventually get to know ourselves.

— Colum McCann

My desire as a storyteller is to always catch the readers off guard; to give them something they aren't expecting, and take them in…

— Chris Claremont

The way we as a world consume stories - and sometimes people - is a phenomenon that we're seeing much more of now.

— Brian McGinn

We evolved to make sense of this nonlinear and unpredictable world with stories. These stories are often very powerful.

— Dominic Cummings

In the writers' room, the challenge is always to tell interesting stories in unexpected ways, so we try to never limit ourselves in how…

— Nahnatchka Khan

This is how deeply rooted stories are, folks. We crave them before we can walk, and we start telling them before we can talk.

— Patrick Rothfuss

People who understand everything get no stories.

— Bertolt Brecht

Why does reading freak people out so much? Sure, I could be pretty anti-social when we were on the road, but if I was…

— Nick Hornby