Don't have stories; have sentences.

You don't have anything if you don't have the stories.

— Leslie Marmon Silko

I think that if you have a knack for storytelling, and you work really hard at it, you'll have a chance to tap into…

— Adam Ross

Narration is as much a part of human nature as breath and the circulation of the blood… storytelling is intrinsic to biological time, which…

— A. S. Byatt

Had I been brighter, the ladies been gentler, the Scotch been weaker, had the gods been kinder, had the dice been hotter, this could…

— Mickey Rooney

My sentences got sharper and my stories more efficient, and I gradually learned to imagine the reader more clearly and to empathize with that…

— Karen Thompson Walker

Sometimes I am a collector of data, and only a collector, and am likely to be gross and miserly, piling up notes, pleased with…

— Charles Fort

If you do weave one-liners into a story, you have to have an overall story as well, otherwise it doesn't really count as narrative.

— Tim Vine

I have always been fascinated by the supernatural elements in stories, whether fairy tales, myths, film or literature.

— Trudi Canavan

When we read a story, we inhabit it. The covers of the book are like a roof and four walls.

— John Berger

The greatest tales, well told, awaken the fears and longings of the listeners. Each man hears a different story. Each is touched by it…

— Juliet Marillier

“She is both the bookends and the stories between.”

— Kirk Diedrich

I've always been interested in medicine and was pleased when my brother became a doctor. But after thinking seriously about that field, I realized…

— Lois Lowry

Some stories, you use up. Others use you up.

— Chuck Palahniuk

I make no distinction between writing and storytelling; I've always wanted to tell stories.

— Damon Lindelof

I think that storytelling and creation are very close to what the center of what magic is about. I think not just for me,…

— Alan Moore