Friendship Quote by Tin House Books

Telling a story is the way of exploring so many different things - human behavior, society, whatever existence.

— Yorgos Lanthimos

“In the stories we tell ourselves, we tell ourselves.”

— Michael Martone

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

— Sena Jeter Naslund

“I believe we all have a choice in this world about how to tell stories”

— John Green

“You learn to tell stories by telling stories.”

— Robert Rodríguez

“Telling a story is like reaching into a granary full of wheat and drawing out a handful. There is always more to tell than…

— Wendell Berry

“Why do I have to tell a story?” I asked. “Because if you don’t tell the story, someone else will tell it for you.”

— Jennifer Lynn Barnes

“It's hard to do, to tell one story, when there are so many stories to tell.”

— Bernie Mcgill

We don't only tell stories when we set out to tell stories, our memory tells us stories. That is, what we get to keep…

— Daniel Kahneman

“We all tell stories--to ourselves and to each other. Some of learn to tell only the most interesting bits.”

— Shannon Donnelly

Stories have a way of telling themselves.

— W. Earl Brown

I just think, as a species, what we [people] enjoy most is creation and creativity, and telling stories is an extension of expressing all…

— Seth Gabel