Attention Quote by Lorraine Hansberry

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

— Jesmyn Ward

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

— Measha Brueggergosman

Touching on universality is an important part of effective storytelling, but the problem with cliches is that they are tired and dull. And that's…

— Miguel Syjuco

“all writers, given adequate technique—technique that communicates—can stir our interest in their special subject matter, since at heart all fiction treats, directly or indirectly,…

— John Gardner

I insist that through specificity, honesty, and diversity, who gets to hold the storytelling stick, you can have really universal stories that everyone can…

— Greta Lee

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

Only thought is capable of inventing the fiction of a State that is universal by right, of elevation the State to the level of…

— Gilles Deleuze

“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

“We will arrive at the universal not by abandoning our particularity but by turning it into a way of reaching others, by virtue of…

— Maurice Merleau-Ponty

Everything has its own kind of theatricality and its own drama.

— Parker Posey

“Universalism is a corruption of objectivity. Whereas objectivity is achieved from particular things, universalism claims to define particularity from an abstract notion posed arbitrarily.”

— Alain de Benoist

The greatest rules of dramatic writing are conflict, conflict, conflict.

— James Frey