Agendas Quote by Jim Shepard

People are interested in examining the way we consume narratives.

— Rod Blackhurst

For me as a writer, the story has always taken precedence over everything else. I have never sat down to write with broad, sweeping…

— Khaled Hosseini

I'm endlessly intrigued by stories, and I love helping someone to formulate his or her story. I can drift off when I'm reading pure…

— Andrew Solomon

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

If I feel like I haven't really tapped into the essence of the story when I do an assignment, I may revisit it on…

— Hilton Als

However much I may like to talk about or be interested in a more philosophical or moral agenda, [film] is, ultimately, about narrative. And…

— Edward Zwick

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

— Yorgos Lanthimos

The way we as a world consume stories - and sometimes people - is a phenomenon that we're seeing much more of now.

— Brian McGinn

Neurologists say that our brains are programmed much more for stories than for abstract ideas. Tales with a little drama are remembered far longer…

— John P. Kotter

What interests me about fiction is plot. And what interests me about plot is whether someone tells a story that moves me within the…

— Malcolm Gladwell

People love stories; they use stories to make sense of the world.

— Ryan Holiday

As a matter of writing philosophy, if there is one, I try not to ever plot a story. I try to write it from…

— Anonymous