Beauty Quote by Diana Abu-Jaber

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

I think that the way that I write stories is by instinct. You have some basic ideas - a character, or an image, or…

— Dan Chaon

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

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

Great stories happen all around you every day. At the time they’re happening, you don’t think of them as stories. You probably don’t think…

— Paul Smith

Stories make ideas and concepts come alive and by shifting the action to another world and another time, they help us step back and…

— Prakah Iyer

There's just so many great stories in the past that you can know a little bit about, but you can't know it all, and…

— Geraldine Brooks

We read to find out what the world is like, to experience lots of lives, not just the one we live. If it is…

— Ramona Koval

Stories move in circle. They don’t move in straight lines. So it helps if you listen in circles. There are stories inside stories and…

— Deena Metzger

...these stories are a kind of beacon. By making stories full of empathy and amusement and the sheer pleasure of discovering the world, these…

— Ira Glass

Stories are for joining the past to the future. Stories are for those late hours in the night when you can't remember how you…

— Tim O'Brien

Because we humans find stories such fascinating things, it’s all too easy to get interested in the story for its own sake, and lose…

— Steve Denning