Stories Quote by Ibraheem Hamdi

“We are not only the tellers of our stories, we are the stories themselves.”

— Jonathan Safran Foer

“It is a law of the story-teller's art that he does not tell a story. It is the listener who tells it. The story-teller…

— Melville Davisson Post

“There’s a saying in the oral tradition of storytelling that when you tell a story, when you give out a story, it is no…

— Ishmael Beah

“People respond to the stories. They tell them themselves. The stories spread, and as people tell them, the stories change the tellers.”

— Neil Gaiman

“We're all storytellers. We choose to tell ourselves the kind of tale we want to hear.”

— Danielle Ganek

Story is a relationship between the teller and the listener, a responsibility. After the listening you become accountable for the sacred knowledge that has…

— Terry Tempest Williams

“Stories give you a way to see things. A way to understand the events of your life. Even if you don't realize it while…

— Matthew Kirby

“I believe that we need good tale-tellers now, as much as we did when the oral tradition was the only way that they were…

— Alan Lee

“People tell stories, and it's up to those who listen whether to believe them or not. It's not the job of the storyteller.”

— Cecelia Ahern

“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

“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

“We may just be specters in this world, but our stories, if they are remembered and retold, become real and solid and alive... Once…

— Candace Fleming