Addresses Quote by Pete Wentz

We need myths to get by. We need story; otherwise the tremendous randomness of experience overwhelms us. Story is what penetrates.

— Robert Coover

Like life itself my stories have no point and get absolutely nowhere.

— Thorne Smith

I hate to think that all my current experiences will someday become stories with no point.

— Bill Watterson

It is the stories we don't get, the ones we miss, pass over, fail to recognize, don't pick up on, that will send us…

— Molly Ivins

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

The point of mythology or myth is to point to the horizon and to point back to ourselves: This is who we are; this…

— J. Michael Straczynski

Stories are the common ground that allow people to connect, despite all our defences and all our differences.

— Kate Forsyth

You know when you're telling these little stories? Here's a good idea: have a point. It makes it so much more interesting for the…

— Steve Martin

The purpose of a storyteller is not to tell you how to think, but to give you questions to think upon.

— Brandon Sanderson

I believe that this idea of story or myth or this thing that Joseph Campbell writes about is sort of an inter-connective spiritual force…

— Damon Lindelof

Our stories arise from our hearts and our souls. In this sense, telling our stories becomes a sacred gesture, opening a clear way to…

— Susan Wittig Albert

We tell myths over and over again, lest we forget who we are, lest we not understand that these tales take us through the…

— Julie Taymor