Character Quote by William Kittredge

What are we but our stories?

— James Patterson

There's something in psychology called the narrative paradigm, which essentially means that we think of our lives as stories in which we are the…

— Aleksandar Hemon

“Stories are how we think. They are how we make meaning of life. Call them schemas, scripts, mental maps, ideas, metaphors, or narratives. Stories…

— Jeroninio Almeida

A story is based on what people think is important, so when we live a story, we are telling people around us what we…

— Donald Miller

We are shaped by stories from the first moments of life, and even before. Stories tell us who we are, why we are here,…

— Daniel Taylor

We are made of the stories we have heard and read all through our lives.

— Diane Setterfield

We are defined by the stories we tell ourselves.

— Tony Robbins

Humans are kind of story-propagating creatures. If you think of how we spend our days, think of all the time you spend on entertainment.…

— Patrick Rothfuss

We understand ourselves through stories, by making stories out of our lives. Storytellers give people structure with which they can begin to look at…

— Bill Harley

I believe that every character is a setting, a world with moving parts, and on the other hand, every setting is, in fact, a…

— Jason Reynolds

A story is how we construct our experiences.

— Doris Lessing

We are creatures of story.

— Helen Dunmore