Josh Radnor Quotes

I don't really believe in stories, only in the people who tell them.

Fiction can either be a mirror reflecting you back to yourself or it can be a clean pane of glass looking on the outside.

There's nothing wrong with a male's point of view, obviously, but it's just a different way of telling a story.

I would not want to write something about something I do not think about.

I have so many different voices and stories to tell.

The stories we are told shape the way we see the world, which shapes the way we experience the world.

I have written every one of my novels to convince somebody of something.

I was probably 35 when I wrote the first story. The voice is kind of a mix in that it has a young voice, but it's also someone who's looking back. I like that kind of double vision.

You rehear your life by reading about what happens to other people.

It's great to express yourself and tell other people's stories and get into the minds of people who aren't like you.

I think cinema should provoke thoughts, sure, but using it as I soapbox I think is the wrong place. I never want to be part of something like that, where there's an agenda there that's not about telling a story, where its someone getting on a soapbox and preaching their own beliefs onto somebody.

The media is a like any other group of people. Their universe is all that matters.

To me, point of view is everything.

Do not tell people how to live their lives. Just tell them stories and they will figure out how those stories apply to them.

People tell stories and it's up to those who listen whether to believe or not." "Shouldn't the storyteller believe it." "The storyteller should tell it.

The purpose of a storyteller is not to tell you how to think, but to give you questions to think upon.

I think the world is like a great mirror, and reflects our lives just as we ourselves look upon it.

In these night recitations we create a space between things as we felt them at the time and as we speak them now. This is the space reserved for irony, sympathy and fond amusement, the means by which we rescue ourselves from the past.

Stories are in one way or another mirrors. We use them to explain to ourselves how the world works or how it doesn’t work. Like mirrors stories prepare us for the day to come. They distract us from the things in darkness.

It's easy now, now that it's a story. When you were going through it, it was life. Always much harder to get the plot line on.

He who stands most remote from his age is he who mirrors it best.

When you are in the middle of a story it isn't a story at all, but only a confusion; a dark roaring, a blindness, a wreckage of shattered glass and splintered wood; like a house in a whirlwind, or else a boat crushed by the icebergs or swept over the rapids, and all aboard powerless to stop it. It's only afterwards that it becomes anything like a story at all. When you are telling it, to yourself or to someone else.

The conventional wisdom is - people say this all the time - you should only write something when you're far enough away from it that you can have a perspective. But that's not true. That's a story that you're telling. The truth of it is here, right now. It's the only truth that we ever know. And I'm interested in that truth and the confusion being part of the experience and sorting it your way through and figuring it out.

My passion is to tell stories that reflect humanity.

What I've learned in the last few years is that I am merely a storyteller.