Stories Quotes

"Humans think in stories, and we try to make sense of the world by telling stories."

"There are a thousand weird untold stories in the Australian film industry, this has been one of them."

"Fairy tales are more than true: not because they tell us that dragons exist, but because they tell us that dragons can be beaten."

Neil Gaiman

“If you've heard this story before, don't stop me, because I'd like to hear it again.”

“Since it is so likely that children will meet cruel enemies, let them at least have heard of brave knights and heroic courage.”

"After nourishment, shelter and companionship, stories are the thing we need most in the world."

Philip Pullman

"Stories you read when you're the right age never quite leave you."

Neil Gaiman

"There is no greater agony than bearing an untold story inside you."

"Sometimes reality is too complex. Stories give it form."

Jean-Luc Godard

"Stories of imagination tend to upset those without one."

Terry Pratchett

“Travelling: it leaves you speechless, then turns you into a storyteller.”

Ibn Battuta

"God made man because he loves stories."

Elie Wiesel

"Every man's life is a fairy tale written by God's fingers."

Hans Christian Andersen

"Every great story seems to begin with a snake."

Nicolas Cage

"History is a novel whose author is the people."

Alfred de Vigny

"Every man's memory is his private literature."

"If history were taught in the form of stories, it would never be forgotten."

Rudyard Kipling