Concepts Quote by Steven Knight

James Delaney as an individual is sort of like a grain of sand in an oyster who is irritating all of them. But for…

— Steven Knight

The late Nadine Gordimer in South Africa, for example, had a wonderful ability to get her country's injustices and contradictions down on paper. Ditto…

— Adam Hochschild

“A story, whether it be novel, short fiction, screenplay, play or poetry or any form of non-fiction, is like an ecosystem in which everything…

— Andrew Binks

Shakespeare is so fundamental to the way we see story. A tremendous amount of narratives come from him - more than many authors are…

— Rebecca Serle

“all of us need a story outside ourselves, a form through which we imagine ourselves as players in the game.”

— Siri Hustvedt

“As a novelist it is my job to tell stories that inspire and entertain but I am increasingly mindful that many of these historical…

— Sara Sheridan

'The Story of Us with Morgan Freeman' is a reminder that people across the world are rebelling against norms and forging new paths for…

— Patrisse Cullors

Many characters in the novel are representative of types that exist in India. He represents the caste system in India with an air of…

— Anita Desai

Shakespeare is in many ways an African writer and 'Hamlet' would be seen as a very accurate historical saga about an African kingdom.

— Henning Mankell

The literary game is the abyss of human society itself: interactive, playful and tragic. We can't live alone. For me, Robinson [Crusoe] is either…

— Dumitru Tepeneag

I am not Shakespeare or Hemingway, but I have written stories on tennis that were brilliant.

— Ion Tiriac

“Everyone is necessarily the hero of his own life story. Hamlet could be told from Polonius's point of view and called The Tragedy of…

— John Barth