Circles Quote by Deena Metzger

Stories open up new paths, sometimes send us back to old ones, and close off still others. Telling and listening to stories we too…

— Arthur Kleinman

“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

I don't always, or even usually, read stories from beginning to end. I start anywhere and proceed in either direction. A story is not…

— Alice Munro

Writing a story is like going down a path in the woods. You follow the path. You don't worry about getting lost. You just…

— Jan Brett

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

By nature, human beings search for ways to make sense and meaning out of their lives and their world. One way that we make…

— Susan Campbell Bartoletti

Long before I wrote stories, I listened for stories. Listening for them is something more acute than listening to them.

— Eudora Welty

A story is not like a road to follow... it's more like a house. You go inside and stay there for a while, wandering…

— Alice Munro

We have to listen to other people's stories. That's the thing. And that's the only way that we eventually get to know ourselves.

— Colum McCann

Stories are how we learn best. We absorb numbers and facts and details, but we keep them all glued into our heads with stories.

— Chris Brogan

Stories are at the very heart of being human; they talk about where we're from, where we are, and where we're going. They're like…

— Bill Harley