Stories Quote by Jennifer McMahon

To be simple, I would say a story has to have a bit of narrative, if only "she says," and then enough of a…

— Lydia Davis

Stories have a way of telling themselves.

— W. Earl Brown

The stories are what no one wants to talk about. So you make up a story because no one is going to tell you…

— Sandra Cisneros

One cannot make up stories; one can only retell in new ways the stories one has already heard.

— Carolyn Heilbrun

Everyone seems quite good at stories and making them up.

— Casey Stoner

It's only afterwards that it becomes anything like a story at all. When you're telling it, to yourself or to someone else.

— Margaret Atwood

Some stories doesn't need to be written, circumstances automatically narrates the scenes behind it.

— Sushan

“her power of telling stories and of making everything she talked about seem like a story, whether it was one or not.”

— Frances Hodgson Burnett

“Storytelling is a form of self-disclosure.”

— John S. Savage

Stories aren't about things. Stories are things. Stories aren't about actions. Stories are, unto themselves, actions.

— Bret Anthony Johnston

It occurred to me that everyone’s story matters to themselves, so the more I listened, the more she wanted to talk.

— Miranda July

Stories are different every time you tell them - they allow so many possible narratives.

— David Antin