Body Quote by Jonathan Gottschall

We are a species addicted to a stories.

— Jonathan Gottschall

The brain stays up all night telling stories while we sleep. We just call them dreams.

— Jonathan Gottschall

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

— Yuval Noah Harari

In both writing and sleeping, we learn to be physically still at the same time we are encouraging our minds to unlock from the…

— Stephen King

Stories--from the literature of our culture to descriptions of our days to the lunatic's ravings--appear to be hardwired into us. Even in sleep we…

— Michael Ruhlman

Gradually it occurred to me that we spend a great deal of life asleep and that dreams are little narratives, little stories. I thought,…

— Sue Monk Kidd

Humans are kind of story-propagating creatures. If you think of how we spend our days, think of all the time you spend on entertainment.…

— Patrick Rothfuss

The mind needs stories as much as the body needs food. There are junk stories and more nourishing ones. The food we eat becomes…

— David Loy

All human beings have an innate need to hear and tell stories and to have a story to live by. . . .

— Harvey Cox

This is how deeply rooted stories are, folks. We crave them before we can walk, and we start telling them before we can talk.

— Patrick Rothfuss

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

Obviously, we suppress things, emotions, things during the day - thoughts that we obviously haven't thought through enough, and in that state of sleep…

— Leonardo DiCaprio