Language Quote by Yann Martel

“It's a story you can break down and analyze and find analogies and lessons in it, and then it becomes a story about life.…

— Noam Shpancer

“We have our stories, and we speak of them, and weave them into other people's stories - that's how it goes, does it not?”

— Susan Fletcher

“The world isn't just the way it is. It is how we understand it, no? And in understanding something, we bring something to it,…

— Yann Martel

“When we have a clear idea of who we are and why we live, our lives become a journey. A story is created about…

— Ilchi Lee

“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

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

— Katharine Haake

“The narratives we create in order to justify our actions and choices become in so many ways who we are. They are the things…

— Cheryl Strayed

“The way we understand human life depends on what conception we have of the human story.”

— Craig G. Bartholomew

“Like life, what gives a story its meaning is the fact that it ends. Our stories have lives of their own—and it’s up to…

— Francesca Zappia

“Story always tells us more than the mere words, and that is why we love to write it, and to read it.”

— Madeleine L'Engle

“We come to life in the middle of stories that are not ours.”

— Paul Elie

“Everyone has a story. It is what defines us. Our stories continue to change as we evolve in-and-out of our own skin, changing and…

— Brandon Garic Notch