Communication Quote by Carlos Ruiz Zafón

“[Fables] teach us that human beings learn and absorb ideas and concepts through narrative, through stories, not through lessons or theoretical speeches. This is…

— Carlos Ruiz Zafón

“Scripture trains us to listen to and learn from stories of all kinds, inside the sacred text and outside, and to discern patterns and…

— N.T. Wright

They (fables) teach us that human beings learn and absorb ideas and concepts through narrative, through stories, not through lessons or theoretical speeches.

— Carlos Ruiz Zafon

“Story is one of the most powerful ways we pattern our world and discover its meaningfulness. It goes beyond mere embellishment of a spiritual…

— Sarah Arthur

“Our trials, our troubles, our demons, our angels—we reenact them because these stories explain our lives. Literature's lessons repeat because they echo from deeper…

— Camron Wright

“Stories are masks of God. That's a story, too, of course. I made it up, in collaborations with Joseph Campbell and Scheherazade, Jesus and…

— Melanie Tem

Human beings have always told their histories and truths through parable and fable. We are inveterate storytellers.

— Beeban Kidron

We tell myths over and over again, lest we forget who we are, lest we not understand that these tales take us through the…

— Julie Taymor

There are mythic patterns under all of our lives. Each one of us, often unbeknownst to ourselves, is engaged in a drama of soul…

— Deena Metzger

“The Bible-as-story works. It works in all the ways that story itself works: in offering transcendence, identity, intimacy, timelessness, wonder, and so forth,”

— Sarah Arthur

“A story is only an outlet for frustrated aspirations, for aspirations which the story-teller conceives in accordance with a limited stock of spiritual resources…

— Sadegh Hedayat

“that the stories we tell about things, and thus the beliefs we have about their history and their nature, shape our experience of them, and…

— Robert Wright