Communication Quote by Ernest Kurtz

“Listening to stories and telling them helped our ancestors to live humanly—to be human. But somewhere along the way our ability to tell (and…

— Ernest Kurtz

“A story is built from the things that did not happen as much as from the things that did. Evolution is a history of…

— Adrian J. Walker

“Stories come alive in the telling. Without a human voice to read them aloud, or a pair of wide eyes following them by flashlight…

— John Connolly

“Humans, however, can’t live very long without some sense of a continuing story. Such stories go beyond the limited rational system (or the systematic…

— Haruki Murakami

“Our perceptions are an ongoing, ever-growing. ever-changing story, and our brain allows us to be not just passive listeners to that story, but also…

— Beau Lotto

“This story was a story of our time. And a writer's attempts not to fathom his time amount but to sounding his mind in…

— Louis Zukofsky

“Human nature, for better or worse, always eventually comes to the fore again. And human nature likes and needs stories that are stories.”

— John C. Wright

Narrative and metaphysics alike become flimsy and frivolous if they venture too far from the home base of all humanism - the single, simple…

— John Updike

“A story is about a single moment in a character's life when a definitive choice is made, after which nothing is the same.”

— John L'Heureux

“Everything began all over again immediately: arrival of manuscripts, requests, people’s stories, each person mercilessly pushing ahead his own little demand (for love, for…

— Roland Barthes

But human beings fall easily into despair, and from the very beginning we invented stories that enabled us to place our lives in a…

— Karen Armstrong

“That is a complicated matter. The heart of the tale and the ideas behind it are simple. Time has altered and condensed their nuances,…

— Erin Morgenstern