Full Quote by Joseph Jacobs

Stories are one thing that will be constant in life. Whether told, written, reenacted they are a fundamental part of human nature.

— Jessica Shirvington

Throughout history, story telling was at the very beginning of life.

— Anthony Horowitz

Why are so many of us enspelled by myths and folk stories in this modern age? Why do we continue to tell the same…

— Terri Windling

Over the centuries we have transformed the ancient myths and folk tales and made them into the fabric of our lives. Consciously and unconsciously…

— Jack Zipes

Stories are told over time, and so they naturally accrue meanings.

— John Edgar Wideman

I grew up in a place where everybody was a storyteller, but nobody wrote. It was that kind of Celtic, storytelling tradition: everybody would…

— Irvine Welsh

Tales are sometimes written in order to relate to real life situations that people have.

— Saaif Alam

“I see folktales and myths as humankind's first stories. They are a kind of collective dreaming, filled with timeless symbols and images we can…

— Marianna Mayer

People are hungry for stories. It's part of our very being. Storytelling is a form of history, of immortality too. It goes from one…

— Studs Terkel

What I find interesting about folklore is the dialogue it gives us with storytellers from centuries past.

— Terri Windling

Folk tales are my favourite form of story telling. They not only just adjust the reader according to the world it is introducing the…

— Shweta Basu Prasad

Everybody in my family were great storytellers. My dad and his brothers would just go on and on; they could tell amazing stories. I…

— Irvine Welsh