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Stories change us; they change the world. People are stories of themselves. -- Karen Healey

To survive, you must tell stories. -- Umberto Eco

Stories are the creative conversion of life itself into a more powerful, clearer, more meaningful experience. They are the currency of human contact. -- Robert Mckee

Stories make it possible for us to be human. -- Daniel Taylor

What are we but our stories? -- James Patterson

Stories are a communal currency of humanity. -- Tahir Shah

Stories happen to those who tell them. -- Thucydides

The truth about stories is, that's all we are. -- Thomas King

Stories are the things that allow us to persuade each other that we're human. -- Neil Gaiman

Stories can educate, elevate, comfort, and afflict those who are too comfortable. They can create community. They can also drive people apart, justify unspeakable crimes, and destroy the most basic concepts of civil society. You -- Jonathan Shapiro

Stories will get you killed. -- Marie Rutkoski

Stories have always been the things that entertain me and make me feel happy and sad and move me and give me the experience of being able to live many lives in one lifetime. It's the best thing about being alive. -- Michael Sheen

Stories are Life's instruction manuals. -- Robert Peate

Stories tell us how we should live. -- Lisa See

Stories are just lies made to look like truth. -- Johnny Rich

Stories have a job to do. They can't just lie around like lazybone dogs. They have to teach you something. -- Lloyd Jones

You don't have anything if you don't have the stories. -- Leslie Marmon Silko

Stories don't give answers, but they do offer perspective. -- Dan B. Allender

But we also need stories. Great stories. -- John Piper

Stories make us more alive, more human, more courageous, more loving. -- Madeleine L'engle

We are our stories. -- Barry Veret

I'm telling you stories. Trust me. I -- Jeanette Winterson

The stories we can tell are those that happen to us; we meet, work, live, laugh, love, demonstrate, strive in community. -- Mimi Kennedy

Stories are one thing that will be constant in life. Whether told, written, reenacted they are a fundamental part of human nature. -- Jessica Shirvington

I have no story. My story goes from day to day. -- Robert Plant

Story is something happening to someone you have been led to care about. -- Stephen King

Stories only happen to those who are able to tell them. -- Paul Auster

Stories untold are too often stories lost. -- Bruce Henderson

Stories don't need to be new to bring you joy. Some stories are like familiar friends. Some are dependable as bread. -- Patrick Rothfuss

I'm telling you stories. Trust me. -- Jeanette Winterson

Great stories happen to those who can tell them -- Ira Glass

Everybody has their story to tell. -- Alan Moore

A story is how we construct our experiences. -- Doris Lessing

The stories of wine lords who trade wine on intimidation or food critics who trade free meals for reviews ... those are the stories of my life. I am telling the stories of my life in a true way. -- Joe Bastianich

Stories are the thing which shapes our kinky and wicked minds. -- Deyth Banger

We're all made stories. -- Scott Westerfeld

Stories are amazing and powerful because they can resonate with people depending on their needs and experiences and speak truths we need to hear in that moment in time. -- Sue Monk Kidd

Stories and narratives are one of the most powerful things in humanity. They're devices for dealing with the chaotic danger of existence. -- Wes Craven

Stories have the power to create social change and inspire community. -- Terry Tempest Williams

stories were told here, but they happened somewhere else. -- Patrick Rothfuss

Some stories stayed with you even when you wanted to forget them. -- Alice Hoffman

Every story needs to be worth telling. -- Vera Nazarian

Stories develop from things I read and also from my own experiences and experiences of people I know. -- William Sleator

I wanted to tell stories about people who didn't have the chance to tell their own. -- Michael Skolnik

My stories are my children. Some are sweet infants that I coddle and care for. Others are old enough now, they need to damn well get a job! -- Christy Hall

Since the dawn of humanity, stories have allowed each of us to be many. -- Neil Gaiman

Stories aren't about things. Stories are things. -- Bret Anthony Johnston

Stories help shape the way we see ourselves in the world. They help tell us who we can be and what we can achieve. -- Nicola Yoon

I'm always looking for a story. -- Alber Elbaz

Why don't you tell me a story? -- Julie Eshbaugh

It's always more than just a story. -- A.d. Posey

A good story can take you on a fantastic journey. -- Walt Disney Company

Why write stories? To join the conversation. -- Dorothy Allison

Stories are epically important to how we view and interact in the world around us. We define ourselves, our abilities and even our goals by the stories we believe and share. These stories become part of our personal view of our world. -- Lyssa Danehy Dehart

Everyone has a story. It's simply a question of finding it. -- Jennifer Castle

I just knew there were stories I wanted to tell. -- Octavia E. Butler

Everyone has a story that consumes them for a lifetime -- Kelly Modulon

Stories are medicine. They have such power; they do not require that we do, be, act anything - we need only listen. -- Clarissa Pinkola Estes

I have some good stories yet to tell. -- Fred Saberhagen

That was a story, too; they all had stories. -- Naomi Novik

Stories have the ability to take us inside all kinds of life. -- Christopher Bram

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

Stories are for those late hours in the night when you can't remember how you got from where you were to where you are. -- Tim O'brien

Basically for me a story can be anything. Anything you tell me, anything I read in the newspaper, in any mode. I don't have any restrictions. -- T.c. Boyle

Stories are the one sure way I know to touch the heart and change the world. -- Dorothy Allison

The right story needs the right telling. -- John Green

I could tell you stories-if only stories could tell what I have in me to tell. -- Patricia Hampl

Everybody must have a story. For those who don't, we need to invent one. -- Hakan Nesser

The telling and hearing of stories is a bonding ritual that breaks through illusions of separateness and activates a deep sense of our collective interdependence. -- Annette Simmons

Stories are like children. They grow in their own way. -- Madeleine L'engle

Everyone has a story worthy of being told. -- Kristin Caraway

There's stories and then there's stories. The ones with any worth change your life forever, perhaps only in a small way, but once you've heard them, they are forever a part of you. You nurture them and pass them on, and the giving only makes you feel better. The others are just words on a page. -- Charles De Lint

I will tell you something about stories ... They aren't just entertainment. Don't be fooled. They are all we have, you see, all we have to fight off illness and death. -- Leslie Marmon Silko

Stories are compasses and architecture, we navigate by them, we build our sanctuaries and our prisons out of them, and to be without a story is to be lost in the vastness of a world that spreads in all directions like arctic tundra or sea ice. -- Rebecca Solnit

So, at the last, a story. -- Justin Cronin

A story must be told or there'll be no story, yet it is the untold stories that are most moving. -- J.r.r. Tolkien

Story is a medicine which strengthens and arights the individual and the community. -- Clarissa Pinkola Estes

Good stories take your imagination to anywhere -- Raphaela Mello

Stories are the rich, unseen underlayer of the most ordinary moments. -- Mary Gaitskill

The best stories you usually hear are stories that people feel some type of urgency about. -- Etgar Keret

If you tell stories, you like nothing so much as to tell them to people who want to listen. -- Frances Hodgson Burnett

Stories are invented as you go along... -- Orson Scott Card

These are the stories that never, never die, that are carried like seed into a new country, are told to you and me and make in us new and lasting strengths. -- Meridel Le Sueur

Stories are not like the real world; they aren't held back by what we know is false or true. What's important is how a story makes you feel inside. -- Tahir Shah

Stories are powerful because they speak to both our reason and to our emotion. -- Jim Korkis

I have made up thousands of stories; I have filled innumerable notebooks with phrases to be used when I have found the true story, the one story to which all these phrases refer. But I have never yet found the story. And I begin to ask, Are there stories? -- Virginia Woolf

Trust me, I'm telling you stories ... I can change the story. I am the story. -- Jeanette Winterson

Stories are all we humans have to make us immortal. -- Salley Vickers

I don't need any more stories. I have enough stories. I need a life. -- Sandra Bullock

We all want to hear stories, from the moment we are born to the moment we die. Stories connect our little lives with the world around us and help us discover who we are. -- Henri Nouwen

But this too is true: stories save us. -- Tim O'brien

Stories enabled you to forget your life and your limits. They urged you to reach for a world that was never meant to be yours. There was nothing more dangerous than an imagination. -- Tiffany Truitt

And what is a story but the wanting for something difficult and the willingness to work for it? -- Donald Miller

Stories are a different kind of true. -- Emma Donoghue

Stories are the only thing that I can be bothered with. It's the only way that I can do anything, even if I'm quite useless. It's the only area in being human where I could be a little useful. -- Alice Englert

It's hard to find good stories now. -- Seth Dickinson

Stories have the power to make people feel. To give a shit. To change their opinions. To change the world. -- Chuck Wendig

Stories build cultures by answering the big questions. -- Robert Mckee

stories belong to everybody. -- Frances Hodgson Burnett

Stories are our gifts to a world that doesn't see us. -- Sarah Black