“Its important to know stories. I felt the earth shift to make a place for you when you were born, and I came to tell you stories while you are young. And like me, you were born with a word on your tongue.”

Ibid., p. 27.
The Gist of Art (1939)

As quoted in The Human Condition (1958) by Hannah Arendt. This appears as part of a statement in a 1957 interview where she speaks of a friend's comments about her:
I am not a novelist, really not even a writer; I am a storyteller. One of my friends said about me that I think all sorrows can be borne if you put them into a story or tell a story about them, and perhaps this is not entirely untrue. To me, the explanation of life seems to be its melody, its pattern. And I feel in life such an infinite, truly inconceivable fantasy.
Interview with Bent Mohn in The New York Times Book Review (3 November 1957)
Paraphrased variant : All suffering is bearable if it is seen as part of a story.

Source: All the Tea in China (1978), Ch. 1.

Source: The Thirteenth Tale

Source: Inkheart

Source: The Name of the Wind (2007), Chapter 61, “Jackass, Jackass” (p. 454)

Source: South of Broad

Wrecking Party (p. 178)
Short fiction, Belladonna Nights and Other Stories (2021)