Accurate Quote by Stephen Jay Gould

My sister-in-law believes that few narratives are so tightly constructed that you can't skip boring bits and still keep abreast of what's going on.

— Arthur Smith

We need to look at the repetitions in the stories we tell ourselves [and] at the process of the stories rather than merely their…

— Philippa Perry

Stories are how we learn best. We absorb numbers and facts and details, but we keep them all glued into our heads with stories.

— Chris Brogan

Stuff starts to feel stale comedically when you're just rehashing things, so putting together a writers' room where the majority is made up of…

— Nahnatchka Khan

As filmmakers, we're constantly always looking for something to bring the audience deeper into the reality of the story we're telling.

— Jeff Bridges

We just try to find stories that are interesting to us.

— Christopher Miller

“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

Stories are artifacts, not really made things which we create and can take credit for, but pre-existing objects which we dig up.

— Stephen King

I like the compressed nature of the story telling.

— Brad Hall

The telling of stories creates the real world.

— Alberto Manguel

People always want narratives to be clean and easy.

— W. Kamau Bell

I don't beat at the details, but I do always keep in mind that anything that isn't A) moving the story forward or B)…

— Jim Shepard