Clarifying Quote by Shannon Hale

Storytelling wasn't about making things up. It was more like inviting the stories to come through her, let themselves be told.

— Jennifer McMahon

“What can we do with our stories,' he said, 'but tell them?”

— Sena Jeter Naslund

“What he had to tell them was a story”

— Daniel Quinn

“her power of telling stories and of making everything she talked about seem like a story, whether it was one or not.”

— Frances Hodgson Burnett

“That’s an Anansi story. ’Course, all stories are Anansi stories. Even this one.”

— Neil Gaiman

“...tales in search of an excuse for their telling.”

— John Van Maanen

“She tells so many different stories and they are all false.”

— Iris Murdoch

“I said, tell me a story.”

— Lauren Oliver

All these lives," she said. "All the stories we never know." (125)

— Elizabeth Strout

“She obviously didn’t realize the depth and breadth of the stories I could tell without touching the things I didn’t want her to know.”

— C.D. Reiss

“Mrs. May looked back at her. "Kate," she said after a moment, "stories never really end. They can go on and on and on.…

— Mary Norton

“She wishes that it were true, all of it. That it were more than just a story. That is was their story.”

— Jennifer E. Smith