Affects Quote by Michael Koryta

“Every morning brings us news of the globe, and yet we are poor in noteworthy stories. This is because no event comes to us…

— Walter Benjamin

By delivering experience, novels can alter the stance we adopt toward news - not much, I'm sure, but they can make it a little…

— Zia Haider Rahman

Until recently we’ve only been able to speculate about story's persuasive effects. But over the last several decades psychology has begun a serious study…

— Jonathan Gottschall

Why, I wonder, should the popularity of a news story matter to me? Does it mean it's a good story or just a seductive…

— Susan Orlean

...What happens is of little significance compared with the stories we tell ourselves about what happens. Events matter little, only stories of events affect…

— Rabih Alameddine

I believe that stories are incredibly important, possibly in ways we don't understand, in allowing us to make sense of our lives, in allowing…

— Neil Gaiman

Another effect of news articles is that the events, however frightening, can thus be consigned to the box of things that happen to other…

— Zia Haider Rahman

I had an idea in the beginning to do a book about some of the events that I had covered, just various stories that…

— Bob Schieffer

I always believe that a good story will find its audience and that it will attract different kinds of elements of creative people who…

— Marc Platt

I believe in plot, in development of character, in the effect of the passage of time, in a good story - better than something…

— John Irving

The power of story is potent and that's why historical fiction can be an extraordinarily significant way of teaching people logical truth propositions, moves…

— Hank Hanegraaff

The big story of the day is always going to be driven by what's happened and by the facts and the events.

— Richard Quest