I pride myself on being available to as many people's…

“It was a very American story, somehow. 'Lost.' Each community had such stories. Possibly, each family.”

— Joyce Carol Oates

When there are good postings available, the people who choose who is to come to that particular position, they will always have, at the…

— Arundhati Bhattacharya

You know I want to be available to people and accessible, I want to engage but I don't know anybody who can do that…

— Leah Williamson

We know people by their stories: their history, their habits, their secrets, their triumphs and failures. We know them by what they do. We…

— Bruce Barcott

“One may learn a great deal about a people by the stories they tell of others.”

— Timothy Zahn

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

— Jens Lekman

“The stories themselves aren't what moves him now...What moves him are the shadowy people behind the stories, the workers weary from their days, gathering…

— Lauren Groff

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

— Bonnie Jo Campbell

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

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

— Ernest Hemingway

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

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

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

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

— David Mitchell