Quote by Bart D. Ehrman

Oral storytelling goes back so long ago, and those stories that were told orally were always layered and changed with time.

— Ashwin Sanghi

But stories don't only speak; they are spoken to, by the circumstances under which they are written.

— Tom Junod

Stories are told over time, and so they naturally accrue meanings.

— John Edgar Wideman

Telling a story is the way of exploring so many different things - human behavior, society, whatever existence.

— Yorgos Lanthimos

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

— Jessica Shirvington

In constructing our narratives, we identify which particular events or experiences were formative or transformative. In telling our stories, we also claim some authority…

— Peg O'Connor

We live in a society that is in transition from oral to written. There are oral stories that are still there, not exactly in…

— Chinua Achebe

“...There is no such thing as a story. The words on paper are only instructions used by each reader to create a story. The…

— Damon Knight

“There’s a saying in the oral tradition of storytelling that when you tell a story, when you give out a story, it is no…

— Ishmael Beah

“Stories allow the writer and the reader to live in the same world”

— Irene Fantopoulos

“It is a law of the story-teller's art that he does not tell a story. It is the listener who tells it. The story-teller…

— Melville Davisson Post

“A folklore study differs from most writing, in that the tale is told in the voice of the individual telling the story, not by…

— Karen Jones Gowen