Change Quote by T.C. Boyle

The only reason we find structure in stories is because it's there naturally in human interaction, and in the way that people tell stories.

— Lynda Barry

Stories, as much as we like to talk about them, retrospectively, as emanations of theme or worldview or intention, occur primarily as technical objects…

— George Saunders

We evolved to make sense of this nonlinear and unpredictable world with stories. These stories are often very powerful.

— Dominic Cummings

Stories are artifacts, not really made things which we create and can take credit for, but pre-existing objects which we dig up.

— Stephen King

This is the mythosphere. It's made up of all the stories, theories and beliefs, legends, myths and hopes, that are generated here on Earth.…

— Diana Wynne Jones

As you're writing it, you want things to evolve. You want characters like that to grow.

— Matt Duffer

“and continually evolving both the structure”

— Michael A. Cusumano

We all have different narratives; all of our narratives are at different stages of development.

— Viola Davis

We need to look at the repetitions in the stories we tell ourselves [and] at the process of the stories rather than merely their…

— Philippa Perry

For we are all bound in stories, and as the years pile up they turn to stone, layer upon layer, building our lives.

— Steven Erikson

Stories are like children. They grow in their own way.

— Madeleine L'Engle

If you have a structure beforehand, you're sort of stuffing your story into a pre-assembled box. You don't want that to happen. What you…

— Colum McCann