Able Quote by Madeleine L'Engle

Things separate from their stories have no meaning. They are only shapes. Of a certain size and color. A certain weight. When their meaning…

— Cormac McCarthy

If every event which occurred could be given a name, there would be no need for stories.

— John Berger

We still like to make up stories, just as our ancestors did, which use personification to explain the great forces of our existence. Such…

— John Frederick Nims

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

People gave names to things so they could tell stories about them, goddam fairy tales about children who got out alive.

— Sam Lipsyte

“True or not, it's important to have stories ― they are what give us the right to walk the earth and have a name.”

— David Toscana

“You call a tree a tree, he said, and you think nothing more of the word. But it was not a 'tree' until someone…

— J.R.R. Tolkien

Stories are how we learn best. We absorb numbers and facts and details, but we keep them all glued into our heads with stories.

— Chris Brogan

Storytelling is the most powerful way to put ideas into the world today.

— Anonymous

It is our stories that will recreate us, when we are torn, hurt, even destroyed. It is the storyteller, the dream-maker, the myth-maker, that…

— Doris Lessing

“So we grow up in a sea of stories told in a way that fits what we want others to know about us. The…

— Dan B. Allender

Not everything has a name. Some things lead us into a realm beyond words.

— Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn