Anecdotes Quote by Peter Block

Human beings have always told their histories and truths through parable and fable. We are inveterate storytellers.

— Beeban Kidron

Stories are one thing that will be constant in life. Whether told, written, reenacted they are a fundamental part of human nature.

— Jessica Shirvington

I'm a storyteller and the Bible is a bunch of stories about life and things that took place here on planet earth. It's a…

— Nas

“At this point it may be helpful to remember the distinction that the narratologist Gérard Genette makes between story and narrative.46 A literary narrative…

— Ellen F. Davis

“Recounting the narrative of our personal story in a methodical and chronological manner helps us see our life in a historical perspective. Telling our…

— Kilroy J. Oldster

Stories are the creative conversion of life itself into a more powerful, clearer, more meaningful experience. They are the currency of human contact.

— Robert McKee

Literature offers us all, writers and readers, the best method of discovering and retelling the changing story of ourselves. The story is both journey…

— Jeanette Winterson

Storytellers, by the very act of telling, communicate a radical learning that changes lives and the world: telling stories is a universally accessible means…

— Chris Cavanaugh

To be a storyteller is to be able to speak truth, to be able to use your imagination, to use the creative gifts that…

— Common

This unceasing interplay between experience and narrative is a uniquely human attribute. We are the storytellers, the ones who put life into words.

— Christina Baldwin

“The stories don't fit back together, and it's the end of stories, those devices we carry like shells and shields and blinkers and occasionally…

— Rebecca Solnit

The stories I write are often literal to events that have happened or observations that I've made, and sometimes they're fantastical.

— Mark Mothersbaugh