Stories allow us to pretend that there is a cure for…

Quacks pretend to cure other men's disorders, but fail to find a remedy for their own.

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

“Stories are like DNA, they shape the culture that they’re a part of. A society is not a society without its own unique stories.…

— James Rozoff

I suppose the other thing too many forget is that we were all stories once, each and every one of us. And we remain…

— Charles de Lint

I'm always interested in people being able to share stories that allow us to see the landscape of human foibles, challenges, and ultimately triumph.

— Oprah Winfrey

I'm always excited about stories that allow me to explore a character and create interesting stories and worlds that we haven't seen before.

— Dee Rees

“we all have stories we tell ourselves. We tell ourselves we are too fat, too ugly, or too old, or too foolish. We tell…

— Eleanor Brown

“Stories allow the writer and the reader to live in the same world”

— Irene Fantopoulos

I love telling stories that allow people to be less afraid to tell theirs.

— Gina Rodriguez

As a writer, I absorb stories, allow them to churn within my own head and heart - often for years - until I find…

— Walter Dean Myers

It's a terrible thing that your life turns into a good story.

— Salman Rushdie

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

— Chuck Palahniuk

Each child’s story is worthy of telling. There shouldn’t be a sliding scale of death. The weight of it is crushing.

— Anderson Cooper

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

If you look back at my story, it doesn’t matter where you look, but God’s fingerprints are all over the place.

— Jeremy Lin

I had sort of had a 21st birthday when I was 17, 18 years old living in Japan. I had all of that stuff…

— Sarah Wright