Boxed Quote by Michael Paterniti

“A story is entirely determined by what portion of time it chooses to narrate.”

— Joan Silber

“This story was a story of our time. And a writer's attempts not to fathom his time amount but to sounding his mind in…

— Louis Zukofsky

“Every story has a time to be told”

— Haruki Murakami

“A long time ago someone told me that a story will tell itself, when it's ready.”

— Jodi Picoult

“That is a complicated matter. The heart of the tale and the ideas behind it are simple. Time has altered and condensed their nuances,…

— Erin Morgenstern

“Storytelling always changes time.”

— Stephen King

“Time and time again one has seen how stories get exaggerated in the telling.”

— José Saramago

“Storytellers don't run out of stories, they just run out of time.”

— Mark Frost

“As soon as we ask whether or not a story is true in the present moment, we empower ourselves to re-frame it.”

— Sharon Salzberg

“Maybe story is just for the assembling of things -- history, imagination, fact -- without which . . . our lives will dissipate, losing meaning and coherence.”

— Katharine Haake

“a story will tell itself, when it’s ready.”

— Jodi Picoult

“Time is an optical illusion-- never quite as solid or strong as we think it is.”

— Jodi Picoult