“People have forgotten how to tell a story.”

“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 book The Last Lecture

“Let's not despise story-telling. Like all novelists, I have this low desire to tell people stories.”

John Banville (1945) Irish writer

“I love people who have a good sense of humor, tell a good story, tell a good joke.”

Jason Statham (1967) English actor, film producer, martial artist and former diver

“Funny how a beautiful song could tell such an ugly story.”

Sarah Dessen Lock and Key

“The reason for evil in the world is that people are not able to tell their stories.”

C.G. Jung (1875–1961) Swiss psychiatrist and psychotherapist who founded analytical psychology

“Stories are as unique as the people who tell them, and the best stories are those in which the ending is a surprise.”

Nicholas Sparks book The Choice

“I had a story tell, a story that needed to be told so that people would know the truth.”

Jessica Lynch (1983) Recipient of the Purple Heart medal

“Many of the stories economists tell take the form of models—for whatever else they are, economic models are stories about how the world works.”

Paul Krugman (1953) American economist

“I have people constantly come up to me telling me that I have written their life. When I wrote the story I thought it was a pretty good story but I had no idea that many people felt like that.”

Blackie Lawless (1956) musician, songwriter and actor