Fiction Quote by Aleksandar Hemon

“Much like Ella, I'd found myself with an excess of words, the wealth of which far exceeded the pathetic limits of my own biography.…

— Aleksandar Hemon

“I think human beings have evolved to appreciate narrative, in the same way that we have evolved to learn language. What is narrative, after…

— Alex Epstein

“As the video game designer and writer James Wallis puts it, “Human beings like stories. Our brains have a natural affinity not only for…

— Jonathan Gottschall

I just think, as a species, what we [people] enjoy most is creation and creativity, and telling stories is an extension of expressing all…

— Seth Gabel

Humans think in stories, and we try to make sense of the world by telling stories.

— Yuval Noah Harari

“Only Homo sapiens can discuss things that are not tangible, such as fantasies, legends, myths, deities, and religions. The ability to talk about fiction…

— Read trepreneur

Stories are one thing that will be constant in life. Whether told, written, reenacted they are a fundamental part of human nature.

— Jessica Shirvington

“Human beings across every culture I know about require such stories, stories with cool winds and wood smoke. They speak to something deep within…

— Peter Straub

For most of human history, 'literature,' both fiction and poetry, has been narrated, not written — heard, not read. So fairy tales, folk tales,…

— Angela Carter

Storytelling is how we survive, when there's no feed, the story feeds something, it feeds the spirit, the imagination. I can't imagine life without…

— Alice Walker

We are storytelling creatures, and as children we acquire language to tell those stories that we have inside us.

— Jerome Bruner

I think story-telling is innate in human beings, it's something that we've done since we scrawled across cave walls.

— Cameron Diaz