If I'm not playing basketball, I'm reading or thinking of…

Just recognizing and naming that many of the things we treat as historical fact are stories can help erode their power over our sense…

— Annie Leonard

I like to tell kids that I started thinking about stories when I first started reading stuff like Dr. Seuss and 'Go, Dog. Go!,'…

— Jon Scieszka

The creative process; I enjoy thinking up the stories and situations for my books.

— Judy Blume

Sometimes the way comes later, when I'm not working or thinking about it at all. When stories don't work, you try to convince yourself…

— Mary J. Miller

I started writing, or rather, thinking, stories as a child, and at that time the reason was very clear.

— Anonymous

My process is thinking, thinking and thinking - thinking about my stories for a long time.

— Hayao Miyazaki

We should have stories in common, I found myself thinking. We should have stories, and jokes no one understands, and memories that we know…

— Kamila Shamsie

I am never not thinking about stories. 'The Bone Season' is 90% of my brain - 10% is interacting with the rest of the world.

— Samantha Shannon

I spend a lot of time thinking of stories and reading and that's where my creativity comes from.

— Mukul Dev

As I get older I find myself thinking about stories more and more before I work so that by the time I eventually sit…

— Chris Ware

I certainly knew from an early age... how to tell stories; how to create pictures in other people's heads.

— Clive Barker

“Stories create stories, create stories, create stories, or nothing gets done.”

— Bill Willingham

“One more nice thing about short stories is that you can create a story out of the smallest details -an idea that springs up…

— Haruki Murakami

We're writers. What do we do? We tell stories. We make up stories. We create art.

— Hector Tobar

I've always just wanted to tell stories, and create stuff, and I think "Creator" or "Director" would probably be the two words that I…

— Shane Dawson