People love stories; they use stories to make sense of the…

People need stories...we use stories to teach, to learn, to make sense of the world around us. As long as we need stories, we…

— Jennifer Chiaverini

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

— Chuck Palahniuk

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

— David Mitchell

I don't necessarily think stories have functions any more than diamonds have functions, or the sky has a function... Stories exist. They keep us…

— Neil Gaiman

But I was always comedic and would tell stories and use a lot of expressions.

— Millicent Simmonds

Children are nowadays very fluent in telling their own stories; they use social media all the time. However, very few people ask them for…

— Alice Rohrwacher

You can take any one of our stories that we use right now, put western clothes on us, stick us out in the west…

— Majel Barrett

Sometimes I observe stuff I haven't been through and write about it. I used to walk my dog with these 50-year-olds, and they'd tell…

— Jorja Smith

I think we create our world through stories. We use storytelling to escape or protect ourselves from the unimaginable and the horrible - from…

— Joshua Oppenheimer

“The best sci-fi stories use the fantastical to remind us of the reality of who we are today, the hope of who we may…

— Julio-Alexi Genao

“Ms. Doman had this whole thing about how we have to tell stories about whatever happens to us, and then we can use those…

— Rachel DeWoskin

“The ability to see our lives as stories and share those stories with others is at the core of what it means to be…

— John Capecci and Timothy Cage

The job of reading is to use stories as a way into seeing other people as we see ourselves

— John Green

What's the use of stories that aren't even true?

— Salman Rushdie

All the words I use in my stories can be found in the dictionary-it's just a matter of arranging them into the right sentences.

— W. Somerset Maugham