Allowing Quote by Colum McCann

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

— Yorgos Lanthimos

People make events into stories. Stories give events meaning.

— Scarlett Thomas

A story is open-ended. A story invites you into it to make your own meaning.

— Katherine Paterson

People are interested in examining the way we consume narratives.

— Rod Blackhurst

I completely hold on to the idea that people are eager if not desperate to be told a good story.

— Peter Hedges

If something wants to be a story, it will be.

— Scarlett Thomas

You won't have a story unless you have conflict, which means if there's no conflict in a situation, people look for a way to…

— Diana Gabaldon

Well, I suppose I'm interested in ways of storytelling and in stories that are about storytelling.

— Neil Jordan

I'm interested in telling stories that add up to more than the entertainment of the story. That's what does it for me.

— Bennett Miller

What I may intend for a story to communicate and what a story ends up communicating could be two different things. And it could…

— Max Lucado

I always believe that a good story will find its audience and that it will attract different kinds of elements of creative people who…

— Marc Platt

I believe that the writer should tell a story. I believe in plot. I believe in creating characters and suspense.

— Ernest Gaines