Civilization Quote by Gardner R. Dozois

“Employment was invented to make education seem useful.”

— Mokokoma Mokhonoana

The novel, in its best form, I regard as one of the most powerful engines of civilization ever invented.

— John Herschel

We're writers. What do we do? We tell stories. We make up stories. We create art.

— Hector Tobar

I enjoy research as much as writing so I try to make my stories as fact-based as possible, which I think helps them seem…

— Raymond Buckland

The goal of storytelling should be to make stories as ubiquitous as music.

— Malcolm Gladwell

I make up stories that take place in real space with real people. If I could convert this into a technique for experimental novels,…

— John Darnielle

“Humans are storytellers. It is our nature to make up stories, to interpret everything we perceive. Without awareness, we give our personal power to…

— Miguel Ruiz

So we make stories of our own, in fevered and envious imitation of our Maker, hoping that we'll tell, by chance, what God left…

— Clive Barker

We know people by their stories: their history, their habits, their secrets, their triumphs and failures. We know them by what they do. We…

— Bruce Barcott

“If folks don't like the way you look, they almost never take the time to find anything out about you. They just make up…

— Ann Haywood Leal

People have their own opinions but sometimes with the media things get chopped up and cut around to make stories out of it.

— Aaron Carter

We think that - as kids, you know - that kids make up stories and live in a sort of fictional place, but that,…

— Claire Messud