Roger Ross Williams Quotes

The great thing is to have been surrounded by stories all my life.

No story has power, nor will it last, unless we feel in ourselves that it is true and true of us.

I don't do films because they tell a particular kind of story, I do films with stories that touch me.

Personal stories are the emotional glue that connects your audience to your message.

A good story is like a bitter pill, with the sugar coating inside of it.

My personal feeling is that audiences are crying out for stories they can invest in and feel. I see a lot of big movies that leave me feeling rather numb.

Whoever tells the best story shapes the culture.

Great stories move through fear.

In a sea of stories, find the right one to tell, and the right way to tell it.

It has always been quite apparent to me that no important story can fail to tell us something of value to us.

A story does that: it will reach out and hook somebody and hold them for just a few moments while you unpack this story in their presence.

Fire will burn any human body it touches, and starvation will waste it, but stories are not so predictable in their effects.

Michael Rubio said Trump's plan was impulsive and not well thought out. The other thing that's really annoying Republicans is that this was supposed to be their great week. The president gave a speech on terrorism that was not well received. They were working hard to tie Hillary Clinton to the president. Then along comes Donald Trump, and the story changes dramatically.

I've always chosen the roles that aren't the direct lead because I like being a very poignant character in the story, rather than being seen in every single seen.

All great literary works influence us as writers, not their stories as much as their storytelling ability.

It's cool to tell a real story.

You could omit anything if you knew that the omitted part would strengthen the short story and make people feel something more than they understood

If you're going to have a story, have a big story, or none at all.

What more can life hold, than to know that because of your story, somebody out there has decided to read again!

A story only matters, I suspect, to the extent that the people in the story change.

Hillary [Clinton] doesn't have a fascinating story to get behind. She doesn't fascinating story to tell. The only thing about Hillary is, you know, "first female president."

A story has to have muscle as well as meaning, and the meaning has to be in the muscle.

The Business story is designed to trigger the listener to take an effective action. If it doesn't, the story fails.

When one side only of a story is heard and often repeated, the human mind becomes impressed with it insensibly.

As a reader, I don't feel a story has an obligation to make me happy. I want stories to show me a bigger world than the one I know.