Nature Quote by Sarah Perry

“All worthwhile tales possess some element of violence.”

— Marisha Pessl

“Stories trace their roots to impassioned human interactions with the world. I always sense a storyline as an emotional yearning embedded in a deep…

— Kilroy J. Oldster

“I believe that no matter what “plot” each of our stories may follow, deep down we all want one thing. We want our lives…

— John C. Maxwell

“These stories are my weapon. If I can write a book that grips someone by the heart and then opens their eyes to what's…

— Eric N. Bentley

“It is just that narrative can be lethal when used in the wrong places.”

— Nassim Nicholas Taleb

“But a story never told is also a danger, particularly to the people in it.”

— Karen Joy Fowler

“Sometimes, a story is just the thing we tell ourselves to escape the ordinariness of a life that has no tale to tell at…

— A.J. Grayson

“I believe that in the deepest places in their hearts, people are violent and take pleasure in hurting each other.”

— Ruth Ozeki

“Those stories tended to be located around the places where things went wrong, and people were cruel to one another, and so on. They…

— George Saunders

“A story is a labyrinth, it looks as if there were several ways to go, but only one is right, and there's a nasty…

— Cornelia Funke

“I want the difficult stories, the ones that aren’t easy to believe, the twisted ones, the sorrowful ones, the ones that need telling most…

— Alice Hoffman

“More, much more, will happen after this. Things involving maps and books and true love and tragedy, tragedy like you wouldn't believe. But fine…

— Deb Caletti