“Everything before now is just a story I carry around. I guess that would apply to anybody in the world. What I need is a new story about who I am. What I need to do is fuck up so bad I can't save myself.”— Chuck Palahniuk, amazon.com
“'Not only are there no happy endings,' she told him, 'there aren't even any endings.'”— Neil Gaiman, amazon.com
“Many stories matter. Stories have been used to dispossess and to malign. But stories can also be used to empower, and to humanize. Stories can break the dignity of a people. But stories can also repair that broken dignity.”— Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, globalcitizen.org
“I am drawn to stories where people can tell me what happened when everything fell apart. And not so much that their life became a total wreck, but how life unfolded and did not match up with their expectations.”— Anna Sale, thetimbre.com
“Most of us are so enthralled with the scary tigers in our minds—our stories about loneliness, rejection, grief, worthlessness—that we don’t realize they are in the past. They can’t hurt us anymore. We are protecting ourselves from losses that have already happened. It’s possible to come back. To see…”— Geneen Roth, amazon.com
“Do not tell people how to live their lives. Just tell them stories and they will figure out how those stories apply to them.”— Randy Pausch, goodreads.com
“But the chief advantage of language is not communication but autogeneration. Language is a trick that allows the mind to question itself ; a magic mirror that reveals to the mind what the mind thinks; a handle that turns a mind into a tool. With a grip on the slippery, aimless activity of self-aware…”— Kevin Kelly, amazon.com