Accustomed Quote by Steven Spielberg

The idea of telling a story in reverse destabilises your ordinary moral reactions. That's one of the points of art - to challenge your…

— Vincent Cassel

“If a tale we're reading or watching on screen is too familiar, it becomes boring; we know the end from the beginning and switch…

— Orson Scott Card

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

— Yorgos Lanthimos

Telling a story in a futuristic world gives you this freedom to explore things that bother you in contemporary times.

— Suzanne Collins

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

“a story is a letter the author writes to himself to tell what he wouldn't discover otherwise.”

— Carlos Ruiz Zafón

I have always held the old-fashioned opinion that the primary object of work of fiction should be to tell a story.

— Wilkie Collins

“My story isn't sweet and harmonious, like invented stories. It tastes of folly and bewilderment, of madness and dream, like the life of all…

— Herman Hesse

“To find out what a story's really about,' the Librarian said, 'you don't ask the writer. You ask the reader .”

— Emily Winfield Martin

“It is a still stranger thing that there is nothing so delightful in the world as telling stories. It is far pleasanter than writing…

— Virginia Woolf

I like to think that one of things I've done with non-fiction since the very beginning is to find new ways of telling true…

— Errol Morris

“A story is a letter that the author writes to himself, to tell him things that he would be unable to discover otherwise.”

— Carlos Ruiz Zafón