Always Quote by Tracy K. Smith

I always crave to see more stories about and by people of color, particularly new work by young black writers.

— Katori Hall

“The storyteller has always been a valuable member of society. Even in prehistoric times when men hunted wild beasts and lived in caves they…

— D.E. Stevenson

All stories interest me, and some haunt me until I end up writing them.

— Isabel Allende

It takes such little imagination to include people of colour in the stories you tell and so much more work to exclude folks.

— Rege-Jean Page

I feel that our stories are cross culturally irrelevant, and I'm a member if a larger community of people who have no boundaries in…

— Giancarlo Esposito

I've always been interested in listening to people's stories.

— Jens Lekman

Stories have always been incredibly comforting and can help illuminate things that are hard to understand other wise.

— Alison Sudol

I personally tend to be drawn to stories that aren't paid much attention to, or stories that aren't on people's radar.

— Anderson Cooper

I always look for stories that really try to tell the world that I see, a world that values and is full, in fact,…

— Connie Nielsen

I used to be a good story writer. I could make up a story with like, eight people in it and tell you where…

— Danielle Bregoli

I'm always reading. And I keep a whole list of stories, often unusual stories. There are a hundred some-odd ideas on that list.

— Joshuah Bearman

All stories interest me, and some haunt me until I end up writing them. Certain themes keep coming up: justice, loyalty, violence, death, political…

— Isabel Allende