Elements Quote by Malcolm Cowley

“An author cannot of course remain wholly unaffected by his experience, but the ways in which a story-germ uses the soil of experience are…

— J.R.R. Tolkien

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

— Yorgos Lanthimos

A story is a kind of biopsy of human life. A story is both local, specific, small, and deep, in a kind of penetrating,…

— Lorrie Moore

When you are gestating, you feel full of life, you feel full of joy, you feel full of fantasy, of stories.

— Thalia

A story to me means a plot where there is some surprise. Because that is how life is - full of surprises.

— Isaac Bashevis Singer

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

A story to me means a plot where there is some surprise... Because this is how life is full of surprises.

— Isaac Bashevis Singer

Story is a medicine which strengthens and arights the individual and the community.

— Clarissa Pinkola Estes

A story is how we construct our experiences.

— Doris Lessing

A little bit of one story joins onto an idea from another, and hey presto, . . . not old tales but new ones.…

— Salman Rushdie

The basic quality that any great story must have is a story that illustrates the human condition.

— William Shatner

What a story is, is devious. It pretends transparency, forthrightness. It engages with ordinary people, ordinary matters, recognizable stuff. But this is all a…

— Joy Williams