Inner voice Quote by Glen Duncan

Only meaning can make a difference and we all know there's no meaning. All stories express a desire for meaning, not meaning itself. Therefore…

— Glen Duncan

“The telling and hearing of stories is a bonding ritual that breaks through illusions of separateness and activates a deep sense of our collective…

— Annette Simmons

“Story is the mechanism by which we live, express, understand, and evolve. Story is more than just equipment for living — it’s life itself.…

— Derek Rydall

“Story has a mind of its own and tells things sometimes it might have preferred us not to know. Stories operate like dreams; both…

— Lore Segal

Stories pass the experienced world back and forth between them as a metaphor, until it is worn out. Only then do we realize that…

— M. John Harrison

“The story, the true story, is the one that the audience members create in their minds... transformed, elucidated, expanded, edited, and clarified by their…

— Orson Scott Card

Stories are the untested, uninvestigated theories that tell us what all these things mean. We don’t even realize that they’re just theories.

— Byron Katie

I think we go through the world feeling alone and singular, and you forget that your one story is probably the same as millions…

— Nicole Byer

“talking about the “meaning” of a story, we need to be careful not to diminish it, impoverish it. A story can say different things…

— Ursula K. Le Guin

The single story creates stereotypes, and the problem with stereotypes is not that they are untrue, but that they are incomplete. They make one…

— Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

Stories are not like the real world; they aren't held back by what we know is false or true. What's important is how a…

— Tahir Shah

Stories are attempts to share our values and beliefs. Storytelling is worthwhile when it tells what we stand for.

— Simon Sinek