Around Quote by Patrick Rothfuss

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

— Yuval Noah Harari

I just think, as a species, what we [people] enjoy most is creation and creativity, and telling stories is an extension of expressing all…

— Seth Gabel

We [people] are a species that's wired to tell stories. We need stories. It's how we make sense of things. It's how we learn.

— Steven Soderbergh

Stories match the way our species thinks. Equally important, stories are something we share - everyone everywhere tells stories and oddly enough, in the…

— John Daly

We are shaped by stories from the first moments of life, and even before. Stories tell us who we are, why we are here,…

— Daniel Taylor

We turn to stories and pictures and music because they show us who and what and why we are.

— Madeleine L'Engle

We are storied folk. Stories are what we are; telling and listening to stories is what we do.

— Arthur Kleinman

Stories, we all have stories. Nature does not tell stories, we do. We find ourselves in them, make ourselves in them, choose ourselves in…

— James Orbinski

We live in stories. What we are is stories. We do things because of what is called character, and our character is formed by…

— William Kittredge

It's human to hear stories and to know how people live and to imagine how that is for them. It's very interdependent!

— Gish Jen

A need to tell and hear stories is essential to the species Homo sapiens-second in necessity apparently after nourishment and before love and shelter.…

— Reynolds Price

Humans are, by nature, pattern-seeking, storytelling animals, and we are quite adept at telling stories about patterns whether they exist or not.

— Michael Shermer