Doctors Quote by Robert Louis Stevenson

Stories are medicine.

— Clarissa Pinkola Estes

I have an unconscious burglar living in my mind: If I read something, it's mine. I can read Middle English stories, Geoffrey Chaucer or…

— David Eddings

I am the person who is appropriating stories that are not mine and turning them into a book.

— Ann Patchett

My stories are sometimes closer to poems or meditations, but often there is at least a little narrative in them.

— Lydia Davis

Narrative is one of the best intoxicants or tranquilisers.

— Anonymous

“Stories are the best medicine that exists.”

— A.T. MacDonnacha

As a writer, I absorb stories, allow them to churn within my own head and heart - often for years - until I find…

— Walter Dean Myers

I'm not someone who seeks out stories of people who are suffering. I think they just kind of find me.

— Charlie Plummer

“To be honest, I write for myself. Therapy, I suppose people would call it. So when someone buys and reads one of my stories,…

— Robert Black

My father used to tell me that stories offer the listener a chance to escape but, more importantly, he said, they provide people with…

— Tahir Shah

O Reader! had you in your mind Such stores as silent thought can bring, O gentle Reader! you would find A tale in everything.

— William Wordsworth

All stories interest me, and some haunt me until I end up writing them.

— Isabel Allende