This unceasing interplay between experience and narrative…

“Reality exists only through experience, and it must be personal experience. However, once related, even personal experience becomes a narrative.”

— Gao Xingjian

“If you lose your ego, you lose the thread of that narrative you call your Self. Humans, however, can't live very long without some…

— Haruki Murakami

The novel form is about the protagonist's struggle to transform his arbitrary, fragmented, given experience into a narrative as meaningful as his favorite books.

— Elif Batuman

As popular culture becomes more presentist, we move away from entertainment as the vicarious experience of a narrative - as watching someone else's story…

— Douglas Rushkoff

“Bookstores contain the residue of thousands of people who went in there to find an experience, a narrative that guided them to a new…

— Lauren Leto

Not all poetry wants to be storytelling. And not all storytelling wants to be poetry. But great storytellers and great poets share something in…

— Sarah Kay

Before we were born, a whole society of storytellers was already here. The storytellers who were here before us taught us how to be…

— Miguel Angel Ruiz

We are basically storytellers, descendants of the old men who sat around the fire and told us legends, fairytales, exploits, or maybe just how…

— Sol Saks

I love creating stories, dreaming up characters and breathing life into them. From several generations of Irish storytellers, I think that's what I was…

— Linda Conrad

I believe that all brands will become storytellers, editors and publishers, all stores will become magazines, and all media companies will become stores. There…

— Natalie Massenet

I am not attempting to preserve culture, or record actual events or stories. Instead I bow my head in gratitude to those storytellers who…

— Patricia Briggs

All humans are storytellers with their own unique point of view. When we understand this, we no longer feel the need to impose our…

— Miguel Angel Ruiz

The earliest storytellers were magi, seers, bards, griots, shamans. They were, it would seem, old as time, and as terrifying to gaze upon as…

— Ben Okri

To be able to make up stories has been a great gift to me from my ancestors and from the storytellers who were so…

— Leslie Marmon Silko

Well, I think storytellers have always found murder a fascinating device.

— Donna Tartt