Influence Quote by Edwidge Danticat

The big influence on me was Robert Altman, who, especially in 'Nashville,' transformed my sense of dramatic structure and showed how you could handle…

— Tony Kushner

You can hear my opinion on various subjects, but telling my story is the most authentic thing I can do. There's nothing more powerful…

— Hasan Minhaj

I can't say L'Etranger influenced me to write, but for the first time I considered the possibility of telling a story that resembled my…

— Sefi Atta

The experience you're going to take the audience on is as important as the story you're trying to tell. And that experience needs to…

— Sam Esmail

I'm always touched by people's different stories of who they are and why they made the choices that they made. I feel so empowered…

— Tracee Ellis Ross

In some sense that was a blessing, because it forced me to focus on prose. I feel my narrative voice in prose is more…

— Kevin Keck

I never thought I'd be a good influence on anybody with anything I did or said or sang.

— Randy Travis

“Behind a life of influence you will find a masterful storyteller.”

— Mollie Marti

The only real influence I've ever had was myself.

— Edward Hopper

It was step by step that I earned my way into the lives and hearts of people by giving them recordings that I grew…

— Dionne Warwick

Some of the best things that have happened in my stories have happened seemingly of their own accord. The writer becomes a listener, just…

— Will Hobbs

I've met many people who have come up to me and told me how my story has impacted them.

— Jason Collins