Books Quote by Jaume Cabre

That's why I write fiction, because I want to write these stories that people will read and find universal.

— Jesmyn Ward

I'm always interested in the way people speak and move in their environment, in a very particular environment. I'm never interested in writing a…

— Zadie Smith

In theory I know that if you have a universal theme and a good story told well, it will work everywhere.

— S. S. Rajamouli

Once a story is set to a particular city, language and culture, the rest just follows.

— Rockline Venkatesh

For so long, I have privately felt that what makes a universal good story is cultural specificity. That is just the truth: the reality…

— Greta Lee

Often the most specific stories end up being the most universal.

— Measha Brueggergosman

“Some people think stories can be found, but they cannot—the universe gives them to us. Once your ear is attuned, and if you keep…

— Regina Brooks

If you ask me, the place that a story happens is as equal character. It's almost like an ecological viewpoint: These people are living…

— Mike Mills

It's so easy to call something a Jewish story or a gay story or a woman's story. Aesthetically, if a story is not universal,…

— Nathan Englander

I couldn't tell you why but now I know a story is in fact where you discover who you are, where a culture discovers…

— Chinua Achebe

Whatever film it is, the geography has to be right. If I cannot establish it, I'll get lost. I wouldn't even understand it in…

— Vetrimaaran

Though it may not seem like it, I never try to write about a place, per se; it's always, first and last, about story.…

— Martin McDonagh