Blue Quote by Frank Deford

I think any journalist who spends time in a place realizes that there are lots of stories around beyond their primary story. You meet…

— Joe Sacco

People who actually tell stories, meaning people who write novels and make feature films, don't see themselves as storytellers.

— Stefan Sagmeister

I'm always drawn to stories that people don't know about, particularly when they're inside of a story that everyone knows about.

— Robert Redford

I like to tell untold true stories, or the lesser-known aspects of larger, familiar stories. I think people or topics that are slightly on…

— Nancy Kates

I find that most people know what a story is until they sit down to write one.

— Flannery O'Connor

I know Charlie Kaufman really well, for instance. Charlie Kaufman starts a story, and he has no freaking idea where he's going. None. Zero.…

— Stephen Gaghan

“I often forget that other people's stories aren't simply introductions to my own more engaging, more dramatic, more relevant, and better-told tales, but rather…

— Will Schwalbe

Most good fiction also has a character the writer seems to know more deeply than anyone can actually be known in life, but a…

— Nell Freudenberger

I really am just trying to tell stories. But stories are often grounded in larger events and themes. They don't have to be -…

— Neal Stephenson

When I write an original story I write about people I know first-hand and situations I'm familiar with. I don't write stories about the…

— Satyajit Ray

Writers, good ones, don't tell stories. Characters show stories.

— Robert Newton Peck

Everybody walks past a thousand story ideas every day. The good writers are the ones who see five or six of them. Most people…

— Orson Scott Card