Genes Quote by Helen Dunmore

“It seems to be in our genetic makeup to capture our best ideas in stories, to enjoy them, to learn from them, and to…

— Blake Mycoskie

“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

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

“We writers can use our own longing - and frequently do - without ever having to understand or analyze it. That is why our…

— Marion Dane Bauer

People are hungry for stories. It's part of our very being. Storytelling is a form of history, of immortality too. It goes from one…

— Studs Terkel

All human beings have an innate need to hear and tell stories and to have a story to live by. . . .

— Harvey Cox

Stories make it possible for us to be human.

— Daniel Taylor

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

I think the impulse to get to the heart of the story and to tell it well is in my genes.

— Amy Bloom

Stories appeal to humanity.

— Hannah Gadsby

I think story-telling is innate in human beings, it's something that we've done since we scrawled across cave walls.

— Cameron Diaz

The desire for story is very, very deep in human beings. We are the only creature in the world that does this; we are…

— Salman Rushdie