Able Quote by Carol Shields

“Stories are psycho-diagnostic ― they diagnose the condition of our psyches. When we watch, read or hear a story, whatever detail jumps out reflects…

— Thea Euryphaessa

Stories, as much as we like to talk about them, retrospectively, as emanations of theme or worldview or intention, occur primarily as technical objects…

— George Saunders

In a long story like 'Weathercraft,' it becomes kind of convoluted. It can become perhaps difficult to remember what led up to whatever point…

— Jim Woodring

Stories are compasses and architecture, we navigate by them, we build our sanctuaries and our prisons out of them, and to be without a…

— Rebecca Solnit

“One thing writers have in common is the need to procrastinate. People don't really understand this, but it's not avoiding work, it is work.…

— Steven T. Seagle

It's amazing how flexible the human mind is in terms of jumping into a backstory or an aside. Vonnegut is a great example -…

— Noah Hawley

“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

There's something in psychology called the narrative paradigm, which essentially means that we think of our lives as stories in which we are the…

— Aleksandar Hemon

Stories are in one way or another mirrors. We use them to explain to ourselves how the world works or how it doesn’t work.…

— Neil Gaiman

You are saying, are you not, I said to Manuelito, that stories have more room in them than ideas? [...] He laughed. That is…

— Alice Walker

We need to look at the repetitions in the stories we tell ourselves [and] at the process of the stories rather than merely their…

— Philippa Perry