Alive Quote by Jeanette Winterson

“Story affirms that not everything in the universe can or must be explained propositionally; the loose ends of story aren’t always neatly tied together,…

— Sarah Arthur

“Our understanding of the universe is like a story without a beginning or end where the reader is creating the plot as he is…

— Ivan Figueroa-Otero

The Universe story is the quintessence of reality. We perceive the story. We put it in our language, the birds put it in theirs,…

— Thomas Berry

A tale, like the universe, they tell us, expands ceaselessly each time you examine it, until there’s finally no telling exactly where it begins,…

— Chang-Rae Lee

The catastrophe story, whoever may tell it, represents a constructive and positive act by the imagination rather than a negative one, an attempt to…

— J. G. Ballard

There is only the actuality of what happens in life. The rest is just a story, no matter who's telling it.

— Gary Crowley

“We know how it ends practically before it starts. That´s why stories appeal to us. They give us the clarity and simplicity our real…

— Anne Bishop

I think the basic thing that happened is we have lost our story. Humans think in stories, and we try to make sense of…

— Yuval Noah Harari

We each create a story - a narritive, a picture, an allegory, a model - for what's going on in the universe. And then…

— Douglas Rushkoff

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

The telling of stories creates the real world.

— Alberto Manguel

“Maybe story is just for the assembling of things -- history, imagination, fact -- without which . . . our lives will dissipate, losing meaning and coherence.”

— Katharine Haake