Language Quote by Alex Epstein

“Narratives are the primary way in which we make sense of our lives, as opposed to, for example schema,cognition, beliefs, constructs. Definition of narrative…

— Jacqui Stedmon

“Listening to Ella furiously and endlessly unfurl the yarns of the Mingus tales, I understood that the need to tell stories is deeply embedded…

— Aleksandar Hemon

Narrative storytelling is wired into our humanity.

— Kevin Reilly

This unceasing interplay between experience and narrative is a uniquely human attribute. We are the storytellers, the ones who put life into words.

— Christina Baldwin

Storytelling is powerful; film particularly. We can know a lot of things intellectually, but humans really live on storytelling. Primarily with ourselves; we're all…

— Richard Linklater

“Novel is a particular form of narrative./ And narrative is a phenomenon which extends considerably beyond the scope of literature; it is one of…

— Michel Butor

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

— Jerome Bruner

I think storytelling in general is how we really deeply know things. It's ancient.

— Ellen Ullman

“There is nothing that is not both narrative and language. Even the paradoxical physics by which the universe is held together is both. We…

— Katharine Haake

“Narrative is an open-ended invitation to ethical and poetical responsiveness. Storytelling invites us to become not just agents of our own lives, but narrators…

— Richard Kearney

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

— Yuval Noah Harari

“People are hardwired to listen to stories. Stories are the way human knowledge was passed down before the written word. Storytelling is hardwired into…

— Akash Karia