Biography Quote by Mike Jay

“all of us need a story outside ourselves, a form through which we imagine ourselves as players in the game.”

— Siri Hustvedt

“His only part in the story: to observe and remember the chain of events. Not all of us will be cast in the greatest…

— Emily St. John Mandel

“Stories trace their roots to impassioned human interactions with the world. I always sense a storyline as an emotional yearning embedded in a deep…

— Kilroy J. Oldster

“Story is one of the most powerful ways we pattern our world and discover its meaningfulness. It goes beyond mere embellishment of a spiritual…

— Sarah Arthur

“Few will ever witness an act destined to become legend. How does it happen, that the events of a day, or a night —…

— Laini Taylor

“Strange it is, but unforgettable moments are often connected with very small happenings, happenings that assume fictitious proportions, especially”

— Radclyffe Hall

“To be stories at all they must be a series of events: but it must be understood that this series - the plot, as…

— C.S. Lewis

“My world is about stories that entertain; emotions that move; people you’ll remember; literature that matters.”

— M.G.Crisci

“What we focus on, what we believe, has a direct effect on the unfolding of actual events—small ones, yes, but large ones as well.…

— Sol Luckman

“Fantasy is storytelling with the beguiling power to transform the impossible into the imaginable, and to reveal our own “real” world in a fresh…

— Leonard S. Marcus

“If realistic fiction is primarily metonymic, fantasy is inescapably metaphoric; because the presence of the impossible blocks a literal reading, we are invited to…

— Brian Attebery

Wherever a story comes from, whether it is a familiar myth or a private memory, the retelling exemplifies the making of a connection from…

— Mary Catherine Bateson