Anita Brookner Quotes

You have to figure out who the right person is to tell the story. And often, people who are very self-aware will only sound as if they are pontificating if they tell the story.

I think that good storytelling of any kind does promote a humility in that it encourages you to see the world the way that other people see it.

I love guys and the way they think; they're so straightforward - and women can learn from that.

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

My only job is to write in such a way that the reader gets a new handle on humanity.

My career has been driven with the hope of telling stories, as it helps me to judge people less.

Telling your story is transformative. For both the storyteller and their audience, a new bridge to understanding is created.

I think the most important quality for a writer to have is empathy.

I just wanted to tell good stories that helped explain the world to people.

You have to understand, my dears, that the shortest distance between truth and a human being is a story.

Taking on different characters and seeing things through the eyes of different people is interesting to me. When I look at what people are going through in life, I try to understand their story.

When I'm covering a story, it's not just about gathering facts, but it's gathering the human element as well.

I have ventured out and written about real-life experiences that I haven't gone through myself, but I've known people to go through them. In the past, I've always written about my experiences and people related to that, but there's a lot of other things that I've never written about that people have gone through.

At the end of the day, you have a side of the story that needs to be heard, too.

Some of the songs are inspired by personal things that have happened. Others have been inspired by other people's stories, you know, like someone that witnesses something and so I tell the story through my own eyes. And some songs are just about how I feel about the world and others about the places that we have travelled to.

I look for subjects who have stories to tell - who are looking to tell something.

Just to get the basic fundamentals and empathy - I think that's the most important thing to bring to it if you've acted in the past and are now a director: the empathy.

When podcasts are in charge there will be no wars, just ears. That will probably be our motto, but in Latin. In our podcastian future, we'll comprehend that each story has another angle, every case a contradictory piece of evidence.

Every person I see has a story to tell.

I'm trying to grow more as a journalist and understand the story I'm photographing in order to communicate it in a better way.

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

Language is never a problem when you have the screenplay ready.

I think, in some ways, that is the balm of stories, of fables, of tales: it's the way we're wired. We have always needed to distill what we're going through and try to understand it by looking either backwards or forwards. And the hardest is to look in the now.

I like to talk about my life.

Telling stories and having them received is so important. That dialogue is everything. I tell my students all the time that what separates us as human beings is our ability to hold stories. Our narrative history. There is so much power in that. Storytelling is our human industry.