Burden-of-the-past Quote by Lauren Wolk

“The stories he told became boring to me through repetition, but I understand now that he was just trying to fix that place with…

— Jeff VanderMeer

“What can we do with our stories,' he said, 'but tell them?”

— Sena Jeter Naslund

“What he had to tell them was a story”

— Daniel Quinn

“I soaked the conversations up like a sponge, pulled them apart, rearranged them to make their origins disappear, and when I told them to…

— Gabriel García Márquez

“He didn't know what he felt. For the first time in his life, his thoughts were a jumble, tossing and turning and writing over…

— Julia Quinn

“That was what I liked most about my friends: just sitting around and telling stories. Window stories and mirror stories. I only listened -…

— John Green

“When I opened the box, I had to remove myself from whose handwriting it was that I was reading and whose story I was…

— Kara Martinelli

“The voices in my head wouldn't shut up, so I let them write their story.”

— Shandy L. Kurth

“so we had to tell our stories and they were stories.”

— Charles Bukowski

“Stories are only as good as the perspective they are heard from. Listen with an open mind, and the world will unfold before you.”

— J B Jensen

“If you tell stories, you like nothing so much as to tell them to people who want to listen.”

— Frances Hodgson Burnett

“Because if he knew, then it had been real, not a nightmare I could just write off as my imagination. Like how talking to…

— Lisa Ko