Asks Quote by Neil Gaiman

We create stories to define our existence. If we do not create the stories, we probably go mad.

— Shekhar Kapur

You know, we love stories and we love narrative; we love to get lost in an author's world.

— Jeff Bezos

People often ask authors where their ideas come from, and often authors say they don't know. But I do know about this one. Once…

— Sam McBratney

“Some people think stories can be found, but they cannot—the universe gives them to us. Once your ear is attuned, and if you keep…

— Regina Brooks

Stories are not like the real world; they aren't held back by what we know is false or true. What's important is how a…

— Tahir Shah

Humans think in stories, and we try to make sense of the world by telling stories.

— Yuval Noah Harari

I find that most people know what a story is until they sit down to write one.

— Flannery O'Connor

Most of my story ideas come from my childhood. Sometimes they hatch from stories my parents told me, sometimes they come from experiences in…

— Kimberly Willis Holt

I always have a notebook with me, I eavesdrop; I write down what people say. It's very rare that one of those things will…

— Kate DiCamillo

Everybody walks past a thousand story ideas every day. The good writers are the ones who see five or six of them. Most people…

— Orson Scott Card

I always take a story that's kind of out there, like an urban myth. I take some possibility that people imagine, that they are…

— Cecelia Ahern

The telling of stories creates the real world.

— Alberto Manguel