Confluence Quote by Michael Morpurgo

The stories I write are often literal to events that have happened or observations that I've made, and sometimes they're fantastical.

— Mark Mothersbaugh

I think what I was after was a unifying story that could bring everything together, that could give me a sense of the whole…

— David Christian

People make events into stories. Stories give events meaning.

— Scarlett Thomas

I create a new and more loving story to surround each event in my past.

— Jonathan Lockwood Huie

A story is how we construct our experiences.

— Doris Lessing

“Recounting the narrative of our personal story in a methodical and chronological manner helps us see our life in a historical perspective. Telling our…

— Kilroy J. Oldster

Real stories - whether in pure fiction or historical - have a certain indefinable power; we are endlessly curious about the past and hungry…

— Simon Sebag Montefiore

“During the second half of the twentieth century, cross-fertilization among the disciplines of history, literature, sociology, and psychology led to scholarly awareness that historical…

— Miranda Wilcox

Stories bring us together. We can talk about them and bond over them. They are shared knowledge, shared legend, and shared history; often, they…

— Maria Konnikova

If you have distance from the events, then your story can work as an analogy or parable rather than its literal narrative.

— Peter Morgan

A story is the relationship that you develop between who you are, or who you potentially are, and the infinite world.

— Shekhar Kapur

Stories make ideas and concepts come alive and by shifting the action to another world and another time, they help us step back and…

— Prakah Iyer