Addicted Quote by Jonathan Gottschall

We are, as a species, addicted to story. Even when the body goes to sleep, the mind stays up all night, telling itself stories.

— Jonathan Gottschall

We [people] are a species that's wired to tell stories. We need stories. It's how we make sense of things. It's how we learn.

— Steven Soderbergh

Stories match the way our species thinks. Equally important, stories are something we share - everyone everywhere tells stories and oddly enough, in the…

— John Daly

The way we as a world consume stories - and sometimes people - is a phenomenon that we're seeing much more of now.

— Brian McGinn

We are the only animal that tells stories.

— John Landgraf

We just try to find stories that are interesting to us.

— Christopher Miller

We are creatures of story.

— Helen Dunmore

When a culture is not mythologically instructed, not instructed in story that gives us a call, then we start looking for quasi-stories, little toxic…

— Jean Houston

People are hungry for stories. It's part of our very being.

— Studs Terkel

We are the storytelling animal.

— Salman Rushdie

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

— Yuval Noah Harari

Human beings need stories, and we're looking for them in all kinds of places; whether it's television, whether it's comic books or movies, radio…

— Paul Auster