Dangers Quote by David Milch

Until recently we’ve only been able to speculate about story's persuasive effects. But over the last several decades psychology has begun a serious study…

— Jonathan Gottschall

The word story is intended to alert the reader to the fact that, however closely the narrative may fit the facts, the fictional process…

— Bruce Chatwin

Stories are one thing that will be constant in life. Whether told, written, reenacted they are a fundamental part of human nature.

— Jessica Shirvington

Stories are wondrous things. And they are dangerous.

— Thomas King

Any carefully planned thing destroys the creativity. You can't think your way through a story; you have to live it. So, you don't build…

— Ray Bradbury

The practice of fiction can be dangerous: it puts ideas into the head of the world.

— Anthony Burgess

You set up a story and it turns inside out and that is, for me, the most exciting sort of story to write. The…

— Nigel Kneale

The unrealistic nature of these tales (which narrowminded rationalists object to) is an important device, because it makes obvious that the fairy tales’ concern…

— Bruno Bettelheim

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

— Yorgos Lanthimos

When you are in the middle of a story it isn't a story at all, but only a confusion; a dark roaring, a blindness,…

— Margaret Atwood

Neither novels or their readers benefit from any attempts to divine whether any facts hide inside a story. Such efforts attack the very idea…

— John Green

I'm much more interested in allowing a story to happen, and people find whatever meaning is in there.

— Colum McCann