“If the audience doesn't care about the characters, they won't care about the jokes.”— David Zucker
“It is the storyteller who makes us what we are, who creates history. The storyteller creates the memory that the survivors must have - otherwise their surviving would have no meaning.”— Chinua Achebe
“Everywhere, the telling of tales is a communal act, a collective experience. There is no tale-teller, and there is no tale, without a community of listeners.”— Ama Ata Aidoo
“A great biography is a great story. It has a beginning, a middle, and an end. It has a protagonist and it has a cast of supporting characters.”— Jon Lee Anderson
“I wasn't trying to hurt anyone... I was telling a story of a great love that I had in my life.”— Michael Bergin
“The illustrator's job is to get inside the author's head and between his lines, to find the one moment that crystallizes the story for the reader.”— Frank Kelly Freas
“Put a man and a woman on a stage and you have a story; a man and two women, a plot.”— George Balanchine
“Lights glimmered on the hills, and through the dale; And each companion told his favourite tale.”— Robert Bloomfield
“People create stories create people; or rather stories create people create stories.”— Chinua Achebe
“I really subscribe to that old adage that you should never let the truth get in the way of a good story.”— Paul Thomas Anderson
“The best thing you can do is to have a good script and a good story, because if you don't have that, you don't have anything.”— Paul Thomas Anderson