Compact Quote by Etgar Keret

You really have to hold as many stories as possible in your hands before you figure out how to tell your singular story in…

— Nia DaCosta

Each story tells me how to write it, but not the one afterwards.

— Eudora Welty

Stories are the most primitive and purest form of communication.

— Blake Mycoskie

Stories are how we learn best. We absorb numbers and facts and details, but we keep them all glued into our heads with stories.

— Chris Brogan

I have tried (I am not sure how successfully) to write plain tales. I dare not say they are simple; there is not a…

— Jorge Luis Borges

When I am writing anything in general, I just want to tell the story that exists in my head; I don't try to write…

— Lauren DeStefano

I'm trying to tell the story in the most clear, concise, and truthful way, taking those everyday words and phrases and capturing them in…

— Jay-Z

I just want to be part of great stories that are told and for them to be relevant.

— Zoe Saldana

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

— Jessica Shirvington

I always look for stories that really try to tell the world that I see, a world that values and is full, in fact,…

— Connie Nielsen

Ideas for stories come in really different terms and really different ways for me. Sometimes they're from books, sometimes they're just kind of out…

— Brian Evenson

My stories are pretty simplistic, but the characters are always complex and always right, and that comes from the script and my research and…

— Tony Scott