Life Quote by David Byrne

Writers are looking for a story. Using your own life as the basis for a story gives it an association with reality that's a…

— Melvyn Bragg

Storytelling is not what I do for a living - it is how I do all that I do while I am living.

— Donald Davis

While I think storytelling is a meaningful way to spend your life... it does feel a little bit secondary or off-point.

— David Simon

Storytelling is all about using the imagination, for me at least it is. That's why I'm bored sometimes to see movies. I'm bored to…

— Peter Stormare

Plots are artificial. Does your life have a plot? It has characters. There is a narrative. There's a lot of story, a lot of…

— Richard Linklater

There's something in psychology called the narrative paradigm, which essentially means that we think of our lives as stories in which we are the…

— Aleksandar Hemon

Because of an instability at my own core, it comforts me to live, fixed, within a story. If reading is our consolation for having…

— Norman Lock

My life is storytelling. I believe in stories, in their incredible power to keep people alive, to keep the living alive, and the dead.

— Tim O'Brien

I'm endlessly intrigued by stories, and I love helping someone to formulate his or her story. I can drift off when I'm reading pure…

— Andrew Solomon

Life, to me, doesn't feel like a straightforward story; it doesn't make sense for me to get up there and just tell a story.…

— Bo Burnham

Most of my stories, if not all of them, have some basis in real life. That's the kind of fiction I'm most interested in.…

— Raymond Carver

Storytelling is at the heart of life. As a child, I was never bored because I could always get on with my story.

— Marion Woodman