Ends Quote by Alex Bledsoe

“A story is already over before we hear it. That is how the teller knows what it means.”

— Joan Silber

“Every story instructs. The teller ignores this truth at peril.”

— Steven Erikson

“People respond to the stories. They tell them themselves. The stories spread, and as people tell them, the stories change the tellers.”

— Neil Gaiman

“Every good story-teller nowadays starts with the end, and then goes on to the beginning, and concludes with the middle...”

— Oscar Wilde

“The teller has no responsibility to make the listener believe in the truth. Each must take the words and make them their own. No…

— Sara Gran

“All truth is fiction, really, for the teller tells it as he sees it, and it might be different from some other teller.”

— Witi Ihimaera

“Remember that what you are told is really threefold: shaped by the teller, reshaped by the listener, concealed from both by the dead man…

— Vladimir Nabokov

“We are not only the tellers of our stories, we are the stories themselves.”

— Jonathan Safran Foer

“A few mad exaggerations, alright, within a couple of days: swear to fucking god, they were like throwing grenades and pulling out all kinds…

— China Miéville

“I did not want to tell her what happened, but I had to now. I could not stop talking because now I had started…

— Chris Cleave

“Is any story not always the narrator's story, in the end?”

— Lee Smith

“A man is always a teller of stories (...) and he tries to live his life as if he were recounting it”

— Jean Paul Sartre