Life Quote by William Kittredge

“We must define a story which encourages us to make use of the place where we live without killing it, and we must understand…

— William Kittredge

“The story world isn't a copy of life as it is. It's life as human beings imagine it could be. It is human life…

— John Truby

“Writing a story about a place calls that world into existence. Sometimes, as the author, you accompany it for a while. But even as…

— Alan McCluskey

“Stories allow the writer and the reader to live in the same world”

— Irene Fantopoulos

“Maybe story is just for the assembling of things -- history, imagination, fact -- without which . . . our lives will dissipate, losing meaning and coherence.”

— Katharine Haake

“He believed that our life-stories are ours to construct as we wish,within or even against the constraints posed by the real world...”

— Coetze, J.M

“A story is nothing more than a reproduction of the order of the world on a purely verbal scale. A replica of life, if…

— Ricardo Piglia

“We may just be specters in this world, but our stories, if they are remembered and retold, become real and solid and alive... Once…

— Candace Fleming

“We create stories to help us shape a chaotic world, to navigate inequities of power, to accept our lack of control over nature, over…

— Doug Dorst J. J. Abrams

“We all create the stories we need to survive”

— Kameron Hurley

“Stories are a basic constituent of human life; they are, in fact, one key element within the total construction of a worldview. I”

— N.T. Wright

“Stories often project the best that humanity has to offer. If only we could live up to our stories.”

— Wayne Gerard Trotman