Conversation Quote by Julio Torres

It's gut instinct that helps me determine how to write a story. I love the surreal because I am faced with the challenge of…

— Roxane Gay

I have always enjoyed dealing with a slightly surrealistic situation and presenting it in a realistic manner. I've always liked fairy tales and myths,…

— Stanley Kubrick

“Human beings across every culture I know about require such stories, stories with cool winds and wood smoke. They speak to something deep within…

— Peter Straub

There is an extraordinary power in storytelling that stirs the imagination and makes an indelible impression on the mind.

— Brennan Manning

Stories are the creative conversion of life itself into a more powerful, clearer, more meaningful experience. They are the currency of human contact.

— Robert McKee

Stories can bring alive the moral universe in a very vivid, useful, engaging way.

— Morris Gleitzman

I wanted to literalize the surreal here. Those are my favorite kinds of stories. I love when Gabriel García Márquez does that, for instance…

— Porochista Khakpour

If you tell the story emotionally in a truthful way, then you start naturally looking at the landscape and thinking "Wow, we have to…

— Viggo Mortensen

I've always been a big believer that you can use the elements of storytelling to bring the reader along and to hopefully illuminate a…

— David Grann

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

— Yorgos Lanthimos

I like to think that storytelling is something that can always bring success, if you tell it in the right way and if you…

— Noah Kahan

You devise ways to tell a story that complies with your sensibility. Style and method are really extensions of your present sensibility.

— Aleksandar Hemon