--- title: "13 Experience Story Quotes by 12 authors" description: "Browse 13 Experience Story quotes by 12 authors. Discover the best Experience Story sayings and thoughts." image: "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/594/christina-baldwin-12158_language_we-cannot-think-without-language-we-cann_2001304.jpg" --- > [We cannot think without language, we cannot process experience without story.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/christina-baldwin/we-cannot-think-without-language-we-cannot-process-experience-without/) [Christina Baldwin](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/christina-baldwin/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/594/christina-baldwin-12158_language_we-cannot-think-without-language-we-cann_2001304.jpg) > [I like to have an album arc that comes from an experience rather than a story.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jon-hopkins/i-like-to-have-an-album-arc-that-comes-from-an-experience-rather-than/) [Jon Hopkins](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jon-hopkins/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/a51/jon-hopkins-6720_album_i-like-to-have-an-album-arc-that-comes-f_583815.jpg) > [I still feel, as I did when I was six or seven, that books are simply the best way to experience a…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/philip-reeve/i-still-feel-as-i-did-when-i-was-six-or-seven-that-books-are-simply/) [Philip Reeve](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/philip-reeve/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/904/philip-reeve-13157_best_i-still-feel-as-i-did-when-i-was-six-or_3200968.png) > [The fact that somebody's telling you a story about people who didn't exist doesn't make the experience of the story any less…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/john-darnielle/the-fact-that-somebody-s-telling-you-a-story-about-people-who-didn-t/) [John Darnielle](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/john-darnielle/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/bdc/john-darnielle-2176_facts_the-fact-that-somebody-s-telling-you-a-s_2063200.jpg) > [“Postmoderns must have the opportunity to experience the story as a story without the gospel being continually reduced to mere message.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/sarah-arthur/postmoderns-must-have-the-opportunity-to-experience-the-story-as-a/) [Sarah Arthur](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/sarah-arthur/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/cf6/sarah-arthur-7184_christianity_postmoderns-must-have-the-opportunity-to_1960173.jpg) > [“If events occur to challenge and test us and we experience them only as a story to be recorded and sold, then…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/chuck-palahniuk/if-events-occur-to-challenge-and-test-us-and-we-experience-them-only/) [Chuck Palahniuk](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/chuck-palahniuk/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/df8/chuck-palahniuk-37_story_if-events-occur-to-challenge-and-test-us_75356.jpg) > [No matter how close to personal experience a story might be, inevitably you are going to get to a part that isn't…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/roddy-doyle/no-matter-how-close-to-personal-experience-a-story-might-be/) [Roddy Doyle](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/roddy-doyle/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/28b/roddy-doyle-10269_experience_no-matter-how-close-to-personal-experien_1893382.jpg) > [Don't despair for story's future or turn curmudgeonly over the rise of video games or reality TV. The way we experience story…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jonathan-gottschall/don-t-despair-for-story-s-future-or-turn-curmudgeonly-over-the-rise/) [Jonathan Gottschall](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jonathan-gottschall/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/1af/jonathan-gottschall-14219_animal_don-t-despair-for-story-s-future-or-turn_1992301.jpg) > [“It's a story you can break down and analyze and find analogies and lessons in it, and then it becomes a story…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/noam-shpancer/it-s-a-story-you-can-break-down-and-analyze-and-find-analogies-and/) [Noam Shpancer](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/noam-shpancer/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/1b7/noam-shpancer-35250_life_it-s-a-story-you-can-break-down-and-anal_945025.jpg) > [We live in story like a fish lives in water. We swim through words and images siphoning story through our minds the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/christina-baldwin/we-live-in-story-like-a-fish-lives-in-water-we-swim-through-words-and/) [Christina Baldwin](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/christina-baldwin/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/fa2/christina-baldwin-12158_fishes_we-live-in-story-like-a-fish-lives-in-wa_2182061.jpg) > [My own experience is that once a story has been written, one has to cross out the beginning and the end. It…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/anton-chekhov/my-own-experience-is-that-once-a-story-has-been-written-one-has-to-2/) [Anton Chekhov](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/anton-chekhov/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/93a/anton-chekhov-298_books_my-own-experience-is-that-once-a-story-h_1279511.jpg) > [The lovers enter into a story together - "this how we met, this is how we were meant for each other" -…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/melissa-febos/the-lovers-enter-into-a-story-together-this-how-we-met-this-is-how-we/) [Melissa Febos](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/melissa-febos/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/17f/melissa-febos-7449_break_the-lovers-enter-into-a-story-together-t_3172480.png) > [The more foreign to me, to my existence, to your core existence, the more foreign the foreign language, it's really moving to…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/nathan-englander/the-more-foreign-to-me-to-my-existence-to-your-core-existence-the/) [Nathan Englander](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/nathan-englander/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/57c/nathan-englander-8048_believe_the-more-foreign-to-me-to-my-existence-t_2923551.jpg) ```json { "@context": "https://schema.org", "@graph": [ { "@type": "ItemList", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/experience-story/#itemlist", "name": "Experience Story Quotes", "numberOfItems": 13, "itemListElement": [ { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 1, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "We cannot think without language, we cannot process experience without story.", "creator": { "@type": "Person", "name": "Christina Baldwin" }, "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/christina-baldwin/we-cannot-think-without-language-we-cannot-process-experience-without/", "image": { "@type": "ImageObject", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/594/christina-baldwin-12158_language_we-cannot-think-without-language-we-cann_2001304.jpg", "contentUrl": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/594/christina-baldwin-12158_language_we-cannot-think-without-language-we-cann_2001304.jpg", "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/594/christina-baldwin-12158_language_we-cannot-think-without-language-we-cann_2001304.jpg", "width": 1080, "height": 1080, "caption": "“We cannot think without language, we cannot process experience without story.” — Christina Baldwin", "creditText": "SMS4Smile Quotes", "creator": { "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/#organization" } } } }, { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 2, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "I like to have an album arc that comes from an experience rather than a story.", "creator": { "@type": "Person", "name": "Jon Hopkins" }, "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jon-hopkins/i-like-to-have-an-album-arc-that-comes-from-an-experience-rather-than/", "image": { "@type": "ImageObject", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/a51/jon-hopkins-6720_album_i-like-to-have-an-album-arc-that-comes-f_583815.jpg", "contentUrl": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/a51/jon-hopkins-6720_album_i-like-to-have-an-album-arc-that-comes-f_583815.jpg", "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/a51/jon-hopkins-6720_album_i-like-to-have-an-album-arc-that-comes-f_583815.jpg", "width": 1080, "height": 1080, "caption": "“I like to have an album arc that comes from an experience rather than a story.” — Jon Hopkins", "creditText": "SMS4Smile Quotes", "creator": { "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/#organization" } } } }, { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 3, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "I still feel, as I did when I was six or seven, that books are simply the best way to experience a story.", "creator": { "@type": "Person", "name": "Philip Reeve" }, "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/philip-reeve/i-still-feel-as-i-did-when-i-was-six-or-seven-that-books-are-simply/", "image": { "@type": "ImageObject", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/904/philip-reeve-13157_best_i-still-feel-as-i-did-when-i-was-six-or_3200968.png", "contentUrl": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/904/philip-reeve-13157_best_i-still-feel-as-i-did-when-i-was-six-or_3200968.png", "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/904/philip-reeve-13157_best_i-still-feel-as-i-did-when-i-was-six-or_3200968.png", "width": 1080, "height": 1080, "caption": "“I still feel, as I did when I was six or seven, that books are simply the best way to experience a story.” — Philip Reeve", "creditText": "SMS4Smile Quotes", "creator": { "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/#organization" } } } }, { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 4, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "The fact that somebody's telling you a story about people who didn't exist doesn't make the experience of the story any less real in your heart and mind.", "creator": { "@type": "Person", "name": "John Darnielle" }, "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/john-darnielle/the-fact-that-somebody-s-telling-you-a-story-about-people-who-didn-t/", "image": { "@type": "ImageObject", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/bdc/john-darnielle-2176_facts_the-fact-that-somebody-s-telling-you-a-s_2063200.jpg", "contentUrl": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/bdc/john-darnielle-2176_facts_the-fact-that-somebody-s-telling-you-a-s_2063200.jpg", "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/bdc/john-darnielle-2176_facts_the-fact-that-somebody-s-telling-you-a-s_2063200.jpg", "width": 1080, "height": 1080, "caption": "“The fact that somebody's telling you a story about people who didn't exist doesn't make the experience of…” — John Darnielle", "creditText": "SMS4Smile Quotes", "creator": { "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/#organization" } } } }, { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 5, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "“Postmoderns must have the opportunity to experience the story as a story without the gospel being continually reduced to mere message.”", "creator": { "@type": "Person", "name": "Sarah Arthur" }, "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/sarah-arthur/postmoderns-must-have-the-opportunity-to-experience-the-story-as-a/", "image": { "@type": "ImageObject", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/cf6/sarah-arthur-7184_christianity_postmoderns-must-have-the-opportunity-to_1960173.jpg", "contentUrl": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/cf6/sarah-arthur-7184_christianity_postmoderns-must-have-the-opportunity-to_1960173.jpg", "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/cf6/sarah-arthur-7184_christianity_postmoderns-must-have-the-opportunity-to_1960173.jpg", "width": 1080, "height": 1080, "caption": "“Postmoderns must have the opportunity to experience the story as a story without the gospel being…” — Sarah Arthur", "creditText": "SMS4Smile Quotes", "creator": { "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/#organization" } } } }, { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 6, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "“If events occur to challenge and test us and we experience them only as a story to be recorded and sold, then have we lived? Have we matured? Or will we die fighting vaguely cheated and shortchanged by our storytelling vacation?”", "creator": { "@type": "Person", "name": "Chuck Palahniuk" }, "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/chuck-palahniuk/if-events-occur-to-challenge-and-test-us-and-we-experience-them-only/", "image": { "@type": "ImageObject", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/df8/chuck-palahniuk-37_story_if-events-occur-to-challenge-and-test-us_75356.jpg", "contentUrl": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/df8/chuck-palahniuk-37_story_if-events-occur-to-challenge-and-test-us_75356.jpg", "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/df8/chuck-palahniuk-37_story_if-events-occur-to-challenge-and-test-us_75356.jpg", "width": 1080, "height": 1080, "caption": "“If events occur to challenge and test us and we experience them only as a story to be recorded and sold…” — Chuck Palahniuk", "creditText": "SMS4Smile Quotes", "creator": { "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/#organization" } } } }, { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 7, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "No matter how close to personal experience a story might be, inevitably you are going to get to a part that isn't yours and, actually, whether it happened or not becomes irrelevant. It is all about choosing the right words.", "creator": { "@type": "Person", "name": "Roddy Doyle" }, "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/roddy-doyle/no-matter-how-close-to-personal-experience-a-story-might-be/", "image": { "@type": "ImageObject", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/28b/roddy-doyle-10269_experience_no-matter-how-close-to-personal-experien_1893382.jpg", "contentUrl": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/28b/roddy-doyle-10269_experience_no-matter-how-close-to-personal-experien_1893382.jpg", "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/28b/roddy-doyle-10269_experience_no-matter-how-close-to-personal-experien_1893382.jpg", "width": 1080, "height": 1080, "caption": "“No matter how close to personal experience a story might be, inevitably you are going to get to a part that…” — Roddy Doyle", "creditText": "SMS4Smile Quotes", "creator": { "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/#organization" } } } }, { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 8, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "Don't despair for story's future or turn curmudgeonly over the rise of video games or reality TV. The way we experience story will evolve, but as storytelling animals, we will no more give it up than start walking on all fours.", "creator": { "@type": "Person", "name": "Jonathan Gottschall" }, "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jonathan-gottschall/don-t-despair-for-story-s-future-or-turn-curmudgeonly-over-the-rise/", "image": { "@type": "ImageObject", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/1af/jonathan-gottschall-14219_animal_don-t-despair-for-story-s-future-or-turn_1992301.jpg", "contentUrl": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/1af/jonathan-gottschall-14219_animal_don-t-despair-for-story-s-future-or-turn_1992301.jpg", "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/1af/jonathan-gottschall-14219_animal_don-t-despair-for-story-s-future-or-turn_1992301.jpg", "width": 1080, "height": 1080, "caption": "“Don't despair for story's future or turn curmudgeonly over the rise of video games or reality TV. The way we…” — Jonathan Gottschall", "creditText": "SMS4Smile Quotes", "creator": { "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/#organization" } } } }, { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 9, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "“It's a story you can break down and analyze and find analogies and lessons in it, and then it becomes a story about life. But you can also experience it whole, and then it's not a story about life. Then it is life.”", "creator": { "@type": "Person", "name": "Noam Shpancer" }, "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/noam-shpancer/it-s-a-story-you-can-break-down-and-analyze-and-find-analogies-and/", "image": { "@type": "ImageObject", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/1b7/noam-shpancer-35250_life_it-s-a-story-you-can-break-down-and-anal_945025.jpg", "contentUrl": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/1b7/noam-shpancer-35250_life_it-s-a-story-you-can-break-down-and-anal_945025.jpg", "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/1b7/noam-shpancer-35250_life_it-s-a-story-you-can-break-down-and-anal_945025.jpg", "width": 1080, "height": 1080, "caption": "“It's a story you can break down and analyze and find analogies and lessons in it, and then it becomes a…” — Noam Shpancer", "creditText": "SMS4Smile Quotes", "creator": { "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/#organization" } } } }, { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 10, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "We live in story like a fish lives in water. We swim through words and images siphoning story through our minds the way a fish siphons water through its gills. We cannot think without language, we cannot process experience without story.", "creator": { "@type": "Person", "name": "Christina Baldwin" }, "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/christina-baldwin/we-live-in-story-like-a-fish-lives-in-water-we-swim-through-words-and/", "image": { "@type": "ImageObject", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/fa2/christina-baldwin-12158_fishes_we-live-in-story-like-a-fish-lives-in-wa_2182061.jpg", "contentUrl": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/fa2/christina-baldwin-12158_fishes_we-live-in-story-like-a-fish-lives-in-wa_2182061.jpg", "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/fa2/christina-baldwin-12158_fishes_we-live-in-story-like-a-fish-lives-in-wa_2182061.jpg", "width": 1080, "height": 1080, "caption": "“We live in story like a fish lives in water. We swim through words and images siphoning story through our…” — Christina Baldwin", "creditText": "SMS4Smile Quotes", "creator": { "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/#organization" } } } }, { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 11, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "My own experience is that once a story has been written, one has to cross out the beginning and the end. It is there that we authors do most of our lying.", "creator": { "@type": "Person", "name": "Anton Chekhov" }, "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/anton-chekhov/my-own-experience-is-that-once-a-story-has-been-written-one-has-to-2/", "image": { "@type": "ImageObject", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/93a/anton-chekhov-298_books_my-own-experience-is-that-once-a-story-h_1279511.jpg", "contentUrl": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/93a/anton-chekhov-298_books_my-own-experience-is-that-once-a-story-h_1279511.jpg", "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/93a/anton-chekhov-298_books_my-own-experience-is-that-once-a-story-h_1279511.jpg", "width": 1080, "height": 1080, "caption": "“My own experience is that once a story has been written, one has to cross out the beginning and the end. It…” — Anton Chekhov", "creditText": "SMS4Smile Quotes", "creator": { "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/#organization" } } } }, { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 12, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "The lovers enter into a story together - \"this how we met, this is how we were meant for each other\" - and then at some point (in my experience, at least), the story splits, and they no longer share it. Then, you either change the story, or you break up. I've always broken up.", "creator": { "@type": "Person", "name": "Melissa Febos" }, "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/melissa-febos/the-lovers-enter-into-a-story-together-this-how-we-met-this-is-how-we/", "image": { "@type": "ImageObject", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/17f/melissa-febos-7449_break_the-lovers-enter-into-a-story-together-t_3172480.png", "contentUrl": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/17f/melissa-febos-7449_break_the-lovers-enter-into-a-story-together-t_3172480.png", "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/17f/melissa-febos-7449_break_the-lovers-enter-into-a-story-together-t_3172480.png", "width": 1080, "height": 1080, "caption": "“The lovers enter into a story together - \"this how we met, this is how we were meant for each other\" - and…” — Melissa Febos", "creditText": "SMS4Smile Quotes", "creator": { "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/#organization" } } } }, { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 13, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "The more foreign to me, to my existence, to your core existence, the more foreign the foreign language, it's really moving to me to think, to get to experience my own story crossing those boundaries. To have that experience that I so cherished as a reader. I can't believe this. To me, it's really nice because that would be a thing where I'm like, \"There may be lots of Jews in my work. I'm not writing stories for Jews. I'm telling stories about people, and Jews are people, too.\"", "creator": { "@type": "Person", "name": "Nathan Englander" }, "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/nathan-englander/the-more-foreign-to-me-to-my-existence-to-your-core-existence-the/", "image": { "@type": "ImageObject", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/57c/nathan-englander-8048_believe_the-more-foreign-to-me-to-my-existence-t_2923551.jpg", "contentUrl": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/57c/nathan-englander-8048_believe_the-more-foreign-to-me-to-my-existence-t_2923551.jpg", "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/57c/nathan-englander-8048_believe_the-more-foreign-to-me-to-my-existence-t_2923551.jpg", "width": 1080, "height": 1080, "caption": "“The more foreign to me, to my existence, to your core existence, the more foreign the foreign language, it's…” — Nathan Englander", "creditText": "SMS4Smile Quotes", "creator": { "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/#organization" } } } } ] }, { "@type": "CollectionPage", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/experience-story/#webpage", "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/experience-story/", "name": "Experience Story Quotes", "isPartOf": { "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/#website" }, "mainEntity": { "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/experience-story/#itemlist" }, "primaryImageOfPage": { "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/594/christina-baldwin-12158_language_we-cannot-think-without-language-we-cann_2001304.jpg" }, "description": "Browse 13 Experience Story quotes by 12 authors. Discover the best Experience Story sayings and thoughts.", "breadcrumb": { "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/experience-story/#breadcrumb" } }, { "@type": "BreadcrumbList", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/experience-story/#breadcrumb", "itemListElement": [ { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 1, "name": "Home", "item": "https://sms4smile.com/" }, { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 2, "name": "Quotes", "item": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/" }, { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 3, "name": "Topics", "item": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/categories/" }, { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 4, "name": "Experience Story Quotes", "item": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/experience-story/" } ] }, { "@type": "WebSite", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/#website", "name": "SMS4Smile Quotes", "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/", "publisher": { "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/#organization" } }, { "@type": "Organization", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/#organization", "name": "SMS4Smile Quotes", "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/", "logo": { "@type": "ImageObject", "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wp-content/themes/sq/assets/icons/icon-512.png", "width": 512, "height": 512 } } ] } ```