Doe Quote by Mason Cooley

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

— Brian McGinn

The fact of storytelling hints at a fundamental human unease, hints at human imperfection. Where there is perfection there is no story to tell.

— Ben Okri

Whenever you write a true story, it's not going to go over 100 percent well with everybody.

— Christopher Markus

This unceasing interplay between experience and narrative is a uniquely human attribute. We are the storytellers, the ones who put life into words.

— Christina Baldwin

No matter how close to personal experience a story might be, inevitably you are going to get to a part that isn't yours and,…

— Roddy Doyle

I think the basic thing that happened is we have lost our story. Humans think in stories, and we try to make sense of…

— Yuval Noah Harari

Anything which must be understood by millions of people is so hopelessly divorced from how it is that it becomes a form of fiction.

— Terence McKenna

Very few stories embody a human truth so definitively that we cannot think of the truth without remembering the story and cannot imagine how…

— Michel Faber

…everything has a narrative, really, and if you can’t understand a story and relate to it, figure out how you fit inside it, you’re…

— Catherynne M. Valente

With every step of our lives we enter into the middle of some story which we are certain to misunderstand.

— Anonymous

We live entirely, especially if we are writers, by the imposition of a narrative line upon disparate images, by the 'ideas' with which we…

— Joan Didion

I think we go through the world feeling alone and singular, and you forget that your one story is probably the same as millions…

— Nicole Byer