Stories-writing Quote by Dani Shapiro

“Stories choose us, not the other way around.”

— Nidhie Sharma

“I believe we all have a choice in this world about how to tell stories”

— John Green

“What can we do with our stories,' he said, 'but tell them?”

— Sena Jeter Naslund

“We're all storytellers. We choose to tell ourselves the kind of tale we want to hear.”

— Danielle Ganek

“We decide what story to tell ourselves. Or whether we will tell one at all.”

— Ryan Holiday

“I never think of stories as made things; I think of them as found things. As if you pull them out of the ground,…

— Stephen King

“Stories matter. The stories we tell about each other. The stories you end up telling yourself.”

— J.C. Geiger

“...I'm choosing my own story. Because if you can't do that, you might as well give up.”

— Patrick Ness

“I think telling stories is like pushing something. Pushing against uncreation itself, maybe. And one day while you were doing that, you felt something…

— Stephen King

“Stories give you a way to see things. A way to understand the events of your life. Even if you don't realize it while…

— Matthew Kirby

“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

“The more stories I study, the more I begin to suspect that there is only one story, and that we are, all of us,…

— J. Aleksandr Wootton