‘The Master and Margarita’ is deeply to do with the unconscious. It is a story about a man who writes a story in a time when he’s not supposed to write that story: the story of Pontius Pilate. – Simon McBurney
The genius of a folk melody or story is not the feeling that it’s original but quite the opposite – the feeling that it has existed all along. – Susan Orlean
I like Disney stuff. No-one looks at ‘Toy Story’ and says,’ Oh, that’s just for kids.’ Why is it that games can only appeal to a certain audience, but movies and books – I mean, how many adults read ‘Harry Potter?’ – Warren Spector
I like straightforward names for my characters. When I get too symbolic with names or places, I start feeling like the characters and the story are less read, and I lose interest. – Tayari Jones
I studied Hitchcock a little bit at University and knew the famous story about the Birds – that he’d tortured Tippi for a day using real birds. I had no idea that it was a five-day onslaught and that it was the tip of an iceberg that carried on through to another film. – Toby Jones
Telling a story in a futuristic world gives you this freedom to explore things that bother you in contemporary times. – Suzanne Collins
However much, as readers, we lose ourselves in a novel or story, fiction itself is an experience on the order of memory -not on the order of actual occurrence. – Samuel R. Delany
The so-called commercialism includes elements like story, plots, rhythms and large big scenes. – Zhang Yimou
You can construct whatever story you want to. Documentaries are constructions, as is all journalism. – Tim Hetherington
A short story is a shard, a sliver, a vignette. It’s a biopsy on the human condition but it doesn’t have this capacity to think autonomously for itself. – Will Self
My father who in this case was an obsessive life-long storyteller, and by a very peculiar trick of my father’s. My father would tell a very, very long story, and the punch line would be in Yiddish. – Stephen Greenblatt
Why, I wonder, should the popularity of a news story matter to me? Does it mean it’s a good story or just a seductive one? – Susan Orlean
The first story I ever sold was to ‘Argosy’ magazine, which no longer exists. That issue also contained work by several other more celebrated writers, like Ray Bradbury – so I felt I had at least one toe on the ladder. – Wilbur Smith
You write a story about loneliness, and you grab them all because everybody’s an expert on that one. – Theodore Sturgeon
If the right idea comes up, and it feels true to talk about somebody being in a truck, and that’s the only way to tell the story, then I will reluctantly tell the story that way. – Shane McAnally
I always liked the story of Noah’s Ark and the idea of starting anew by rescuing the things you like and leaving the rest behind. – Zach Braff
I have never made a game that wasn’t explicitly about empowering players to tell their own story. – Warren Spector
The portal structure is simply a technique: it is neither necessary nor unnecessary, except as the writer and the story make it so. In the case of ‘The Chronicles of Thomas Covenant,’ it was absolutely necessary to my intentions. – Stephen R. Donaldson
You set up the story, but the characters start talking, and they go places that you didn’t expect. You have to follow. – Zoe Kazan
You don’t go to your 9 to 5 and share every story with your coworkers, and in the same way, not every YouTuber shares every story with their audience. – Tyler Oakley
