Children Quote by Jerome Bruner

I think storytelling is all about children. We human beings love to hear stories being told - and it first happens when you're a…

— David Chase

When it comes to telling children stories, they don’t need simple language. They need beautiful language.

— Philip Pullman

That’s how people live, by telling stories. What’s the first thing a kid says when he learns how to talk? “Tell me a story.”…

— Jeffrey Eugenides

“A child’s stories are simpler to understand because the language has not been developed to the point of high abstraction. An adult tells stories…

— John S. Savage

Humans think in stories, and we try to make sense of the world by telling stories.

— Yuval Noah Harari

“I think human beings have evolved to appreciate narrative, in the same way that we have evolved to learn language. What is narrative, after…

— Alex Epstein

It's a precious thing to be communicating to children, helping them discover the gift of language and thought.

— Richard Scarry

I just think, as a species, what we [people] enjoy most is creation and creativity, and telling stories is an extension of expressing all…

— Seth Gabel

I can't imagine a mental life, a spiritual existence, not inextricably bound up with language of a formal, mediated nature. Telling stories, choosing an…

— Joyce Carol Oates

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

— Cameron Diaz

Language is so inherent to humanity, so necessary for even basic thinking, that stories and poetry are available to anyone who can process language.

— Aleksandar Hemon

Stories are the reproductive organs of language.

— Robert Bringhurst