We are the only animals that tell stories to understand…

We tell each other stories so we can understand the world better and there's catharsis and we understand the models of what a hero…

— Chris Pine

I felt the need to tell stories to understand myself.

— Manuel Puig

So I decided to make a film about our need to tell stories, to own our stories, to understand them, and to have them…

— Sarah Polley

“We, for our own part, simply call ourselves "we." "We" are the creature that tells itself stories to understand what sort of creature it…

— Salman Rushdie

“In the beginning of all things, wisdom and knowledge were with the animals, for Tirawa, the One Above, did not speak directly to man.…

— Eagle Chief Letakos-Lesa Pawnee

“...we have no right to distress any of God's creatures without a very good reason; we call them dumb animals, and so they are,…

— Anna Sewell

We call them dumb animals, and so they are, for they cannot tell us how they feel, but they do not suffer less because…

— Anna Sewell

I don't eat or wear animals, but I never tell people not to - that's just my view

— Loretta Swit

I am a man, and men are animals who tell stories. This is a gift from God, who spoke our species into being, but…

— Clive Barker

Very young children love and demand stories, and can understand complex matters presented as stories, when their powers of comprehending general concepts, paradigms, are…

— Oliver Sacks

We need the skeletons of other stories to understand our own, sometimes.

— Lauren Groff

Now, the world is more than it seems to be. You know this, of course, because you read stories. You understand that there is…

— Anne Ursu

My stories, I can understand them as a little toy that you wind up and you put it on the floor and it just…

— George Saunders

“It's time we started taking our audiences more seriously, and stop telling them stories they can understand.”

— Howard Barker

We are the storytelling animal.

— Salman Rushdie