Everyone is necessarily the hero of his own life story. – John Barth
Writing a story allows us to play with our imaginary friends when we are adults. – Dr.SunWolf, professorsunwolf.com
Sometimes reality is too complex. Stories give it form. – Jean Luc Godard
There is no greater agony than bearing an untold story inside you. – Maya Angelou
To be a person is to have a story to tell. – Karen Christence Dinesen
Time, the earth, and death are living things, as stories are — so long as other living things exist to feed them, and for them to nourish in their turn. – Robert Bringhurst, 1995, Introduction to The Dreamer Awakes by Alice Kane
If you dont know the trees you may be lost in the forest, but if you dont know the stories you may be lost in life. – Anon.
Under the Earth I go, On the oak leaf I stand. I ride on the filly That was never foaled, And I carry the dead in my hand. – Anon.
We construct a narrative for ourselves, and thats the thread that we follow from one day to the next. People who disintegrate as personalities are the ones who lose that thread. – Paul Auster
I will open my mouth in a parable I will utter dark sayings of old. Things that we have heard and known, that our fathers told us. We will not hide them from their children, but tell it to the coming generations. – Bible
One mark of a second-rate mind is to be always telling stories. – Jean De La Bruyere
It is not the voice that commands the story: it is the ear. – Italo Calvino
There are only two or three human stories, and they go on repeating themselves as fiercely as if they had never happened before. – Willa Cather
A good story cannot be devised; it has to be distilled. – Raymond Chandler
You have to understand, my dears, that the shortest distance between truth and a human being is a story. – Anthony De Mello
When a man fell into his anecdotage it was a sign for him to retire from the world. – Benjamin Disraeli
There are no stories without meaning. And I am one of those men who can find it even when others fail to see it. Afterwards the story becomes the book of the living, like a blaring trumpet that raises from the tomb those who have been dust for centuries…. – Umberto Eco
The most erroneous stories are those we think we know best – and therefore never scrutinize or question. – Stephen Jay Gould
Nobody has any conscience about adding to the improbabilities of a marvelous tale. – Nathaniel Hawthorne
Man is eminently a storyteller. His search for a purpose, a cause, an ideal, a mission and the like is largely a search for a plot and a pattern in the development of his life story — a story that is basically without meaning or pattern. – Eric Hoffer
