Animals Quote by Terry Pratchett

“Man is the Storytelling Animal, and that in stories are his identity, his meaning, and his lifeblood.”

— Salman Rushdie

“We are story animals. And we need to tell our stories in as direct, as unmediated, and as emotionally resonant a way as possible.”

— Stephen Apkon

“Love the animals: God gave them the rudiments of thought and an untroubled joy.”

— Fyodor Dostoyevsky

Stories are able to help us to become more whole, to become Named. And Naming is one of the impulses behind all art; to…

— Madeleine L'Engle

“. . .because we had survived sisters and brothers, daughters and sons, we discovered bones that rose from the dark earth and sang as…

— Lisel Mueller

“For the others, it was still just a tale, like all the tales we told, night by night, tales comical and strange, tales heroic…

— Juliet Marillier

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, like people and butterflies and songbirds' eggs and human hearts and dreams, are also fragile things, made up of nothing stronger or more…

— Neil Gaiman

“Human nature, for better or worse, always eventually comes to the fore again. And human nature likes and needs stories that are stories.”

— John C. Wright

“We humans are such complicated and confused beings that we call the animals beasts.”

— Cristiane Serruya

“Humans were dangerous. Animals tended to live in a sort of harmony with each other and their environment. People tried to control their environment…

— Felicity Heaton

“that the stories we tell about things, and thus the beliefs we have about their history and their nature, shape our experience of them, and…

— Robert Wright