Control Quote by Nahnatchka Khan

When you write a story, it just flows and you don't control it. It's subconscious.

— Imtiaz Ali

It never gets easier to tell your story. Each time you speak it, you relive it.

— Nadia Murad

When I write characters, I need to hear their voice. As soon as I get them speaking, and I feel how they use language,…

— Dana Spiotta

I don't feel that I have to control every aspect of things that I appear in. You learn a lot performing someone else's writing.

— Steve Carell

The good thing about not speaking the language is you just listen. You listen to everyone, every producer, every writer.

— DJ Snake

When I discovered that, through acting, you can speak a beautiful language aloud and have a relationship to language that isn't one that's just…

— Maya Hawke

But stories don't only speak; they are spoken to, by the circumstances under which they are written.

— Tom Junod

If you want to tell the untold stories, if you want to give voice to the voiceless, you've got to find a language. Which…

— Salman Rushdie

We are storytelling creatures, and as children we acquire language to tell those stories that we have inside us.

— Jerome Bruner

Film is the only language I speak, and I have been lucky to be involved in some great stories. You don't want to preach…

— Clark Johnson

Language is so inherent to humanity, so necessary for even basic thinking, that stories and poetry are available to anyone who can process language.

— Aleksandar Hemon

“There it is; the light across the water. Your story. Mine. His. It has to be seen to be believed. And it has to…

— Jeanette Winterson