There are a lot of people that never get their stories told.

My mother told me stories all the time... And in all of those stories she told me who I was, who I was supposed…

— Paula Gunn Allen

I suppose there will never be a lack of things to say, of stories to be told and shared.

— Erin Morgenstern

“This is a story, told the way you say stories should be told: Somebody grew up, fell in love, and spent a winter with…

— Ann Beattie

Stories are told over time, and so they naturally accrue meanings.

— John Edgar Wideman

The human world is made of stories, not people. The people the stories use to tell themselves are not to be blamed

— David Mitchell

To refrain from storytelling is perhaps one of the highest forms of respect we can pay. Those people, with no stories to circle them,…

— Ben Marcus

Nobody went out to pasture, and a lot of people are doing their best work. Bruce Springsteen, Tom Petty, and Sting are at the…

— Bonnie Raitt

The dead and past stories that I have told again in divers fashions, are not set down without authority.

— Marie de France

All the stories of the Bible that I know came to me first from my grandfather's lips... He would see stories in everything. He…

— Philip Pullman

It's very important to me that people get to see themselves in stories. When someone tells me they've never seen themselves, I have a…

— Seanan McGuire

In my time since moving to the United States, I've found that there is a dearth of great writing for black people. There are…

— David Oyelowo

I know that there are a lot of people out there with stories far worse than mine but you, too, can make it. To…

— Tyler Perry

I'm of the people in the bar and the people in my stories. They are my tribe.

— Bonnie Jo Campbell

I love different sorts of people, their stories, all the different facets, that make them, them. This is entwined with how I am compelled…

— Gemma Cairney

“I never trust frank and simple people whose stories hold together.”

— Ernest Hemingway