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“To survive, you must tell stories.” Umberto Eco, The Island of the Day Before
“All the truth in the world is held in stories, you know.” Patrick Rothfuss, The Wise Man's Fear
“Stories are like spiders, with all they long legs, and stories are like spiderwebs, which man gets himself all tangled up in but which look so pretty when you see them under a leaf in the morning dew, and in the elegant way that they connect to...” Neil Gaiman, Anansi Boys
“Some stories . . . you tell them and you use them up. Other stories, they use you up.” Chuck Palahniuk, Haunted
“People take on the shapes of the songs and the stories that surround them, especially if they don’t have their own song.” Neil Gaiman, Anansi Boys
“I think that in really good stories, the whole is always greater than the sum of the parts.” Stephen King, The Stand
“All stories are about wolves. All worth repeating, that is. Anything else is sentimental drivel.” Margaret Atwood, The Blind Assassin
“The important thing about songs is that they’re just like stories. They don’t mean a damn unless there’s people listenin’ to them.” Neil Gaiman, Anansi Boys
“Old stories are like old friends . . . You have to visit them from time to time.” George R. R. Martin, A Storm of Swords
“I think the best stories always end up being about the people rather than the event” Stephen King, On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft
“We were the people who were not in the papers. We lived in the blank white spaces at the edges of print. It gave us more freedom.” Margaret Atwood, The Handmaid's Tale
“it is always easy to put together stories about a past which nobody any longer remembers, like those about journeys to countries where nobody has ever been.” Marcel Proust, Finding Time Again
“Do you know . . . why swallows build in the eaves of houses? It is to listen to the stories.” J. M. Barrie, Peter Pan

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