Decency Quote by Thomas Hardy

Human beings have always told their histories and truths through parable and fable. We are inveterate storytellers.

— Beeban Kidron

People take what they need from the stories they hear. The tale is often wiser than the teller.

— Susan Fletcher

Stories can bring alive the moral universe in a very vivid, useful, engaging way.

— Morris Gleitzman

What kind of people would be able to rationalize better than other people? Better storytellers, right? Creative people, right? Because if you're creative, you…

— Dan Ariely

Storytellers have the right to answer any question they choose.

— Ta-Nehisi Coates

All fables, indeed, have their morals; but the innocent enjoy the story.

— Henry David Thoreau

“Even if we’ve never met them in person but only heard about them in stories, we are drawn to the wise and good, and…

— Donald J. Robertson

But surely to tell these tall tales and others like them would be to spread the myth, the wicked lie, that the past is…

— Zadie Smith

“Storytellers have as profound a purpose as any who are charged to guide and transform human lives. I knew it as an ancient discipline…

— Nancy Mellon

“When many story-tellers occupy themselves with a social world which offers no great variety of lively action, their stories will probably resemble one another…

— Mary Lascelles

Madame, all stories, if continued far enough, end in death, and he is no true-story teller who would keep that from you.

— Ernest Hemingway

I've always felt that the traditional novel doesn't give you enough information about the narrator, and I think it's important to know the point…

— W. G. Sebald