Human condition Quote by Michael Piller

“Story is what happens to people.”

— James V. Smith

“Maybe that was how to heal. I told myself stories and learned that I could be made of the ones I chose to tell,…

— Francisco Goldman

“Those stories tended to be located around the places where things went wrong, and people were cruel to one another, and so on. They…

— George Saunders

“When you've got your health you've got everything, except a good story.”

— J.P. Mac

“Stories give you a way to see things. A way to understand the events of your life. Even if you don't realize it while…

— Matthew Kirby

“I will tell you something about stories. They aren't just entertainment. They are all we have to fight off illness and death. You don't…

— Leslie Marmon Silko

“I was beginning to learn that your life is a story told about you, not one that you tell.”

— John Green

“I say, “Talk to me. Tell me who you are, what you want, what you’ve never had, the story you’ve always been afraid to…

— Dorothy Allison

“Human nature, for better or worse, always eventually comes to the fore again. And human nature likes and needs stories that are stories.”

— John C. Wright

“Tell me your story and I will get back your life.”

— Stephen Richards

“Stories matter. The stories we tell about each other. The stories you end up telling yourself.”

— J.C. Geiger

“Everyone’s story is just their story. It may have little to do with you, or nothing to do with you.”

— Art Hochberg