Matter Quote by Miranda July

And, of course, people are interested only in themselves. If a story is not about the hearer he will not listen.

— John Steinbeck

Storytelling wasn't about making things up. It was more like inviting the stories to come through her, let themselves be told.

— Jennifer McMahon

“Sometimes all a story needed was one or two people to read or listen to it to make it matter.”

— Adam Langer

So she listened hard. And she began to evolve, because stories work their magic that way. They build conviction and erode conviction in equal…

— Gregory Maguire

“She was tired of people saying things they thought she wanted to hear almost as much as she dreaded them saying the things she…

— Freya North

Some stories, she’d say, the more you tell them, the faster you use them up. Those kind, the drama burns off, and every version,…

— Chuck Palahniuk

“her power of telling stories and of making everything she talked about seem like a story, whether it was one or not.”

— Frances Hodgson Burnett

A story, after all, does not only belong to the one who is telling it. It belongs, in equal measure, to the one who…

— Michelle Richmond

“I listened; I wrote; I learned. I do not know why so many women trusted me enough to speak to me, but underneath anything…

— Andrea Dworkin

“It was enough to be near her and hear her talk, it didn't always matter what she was saying. It should have, but it…

— Gillian Flynn

We learn best to listen to our own voices if we are listening at the same time to other women-whose stories, for all our…

— Barbara Deming

“It was hard to listen to her all the time without getting to say anything back”

— Stephen Chbosky