Imagination Quote by Jonathan Gottschall

A story is how we construct our experiences.

— Doris Lessing

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

— Yuval Noah Harari

I would say I'm a storyteller first, but game making is very wrapped up in how I think of story. If I were to…

— Jane Jensen

The storytelling mind is allergic to uncertainty, randomness, and coincidence. It is addicted to meaning. If the storytelling mind cannot find meaningful patterns in…

— Jonathan Gottschall

“Stories are how we think. They are how we make meaning of life. Call them schemas, scripts, mental maps, ideas, metaphors, or narratives. Stories…

— Jeroninio Almeida

“...the video-game form is incompatible with traditional concepts of narrative progression. Stories are about time passing and narrative progression. Games are about challenge, which…

— Tom Bissell

Storytelling is ultimately a creative act of pattern recognition. Through characters, plot and setting, a writer creates places where previously invisible truths become visible.…

— Douglas Coupland

Stories are the creative conversion of life itself into a more powerful, clearer, more meaningful experience. They are the currency of human contact.

— Robert McKee

Telling a story is the way of exploring so many different things - human behavior, society, whatever existence.

— Yorgos Lanthimos

I think that the way that I write stories is by instinct. You have some basic ideas - a character, or an image, or…

— Dan Chaon

The telling of stories creates the real world.

— Alberto Manguel

“Listening to Ella furiously and endlessly unfurl the yarns of the Mingus tales, I understood that the need to tell stories is deeply embedded…

— Aleksandar Hemon