Branches Quote by Roberto Calasso

Traces that live within us often lead us to our stories

— Dani Shapiro

Each person's life is a story that is telling itself in the living.

— William Throsby Bridges

Stories--individual stories, family stories, national stories--are what stitch together the disparate elements of human existence into a coherent whole. We are story animals.

— Yann Martel

Stories are at the very heart of being human; they talk about where we're from, where we are, and where we're going. They're like…

— Bill Harley

Sometimes stories are inherently important whether or not they have a direct relation to your life.

— Linda Vester

We tell ourselves stories in order to live.

— Joan Didion

Stories in families are colossally important. Every family has stories: some funny, some proud, some embarrassing, some shameful. Knowing them is proof of belonging…

— Salman Rushdie

Everybody has a story. It's like families. You might not know who they are, might have lost them, but they exist all the same.…

— Diane Setterfield

One of the things that's important about family is the narrative history they create for themselves.

— Gabe Newell

We are the only ones who can tell our stories because we are the only ones who have lived them.

— Susan Wittig Albert

“No story, including this one, is a straight line unraveling smoothly from start to finish. Every story is a tangle of stories within stories…

— Ann Tatlock I'll Watch the Moon

I'm attracted to stories that deal with the family and what it's like to be a member of that family, whether it's together or…

— Stanley R. Jaffe