“All my life. I’ve been running through the fields and picking up bright objects. I turn it over and say, ‘Hey, there’s a story.'”

Ray Bradbury

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“Stories, more even than stars or spectacle, are still the currency of life, or commercial entertainment, and look likely to last longer than the euro. There’s no escaping stories, or the pressures to tell them.”

Adam Gopnik

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“Long before I wrote stories, I listened for stories. Listening for them is something more acute than listening to them. I suppose it’s an early form of participation in what goes on. Listening children know stories are there. When their elders sit and begin, children are just waiting and hoping for one to come out, like a mouse from its hole.”

Eudora Welty

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“Not enough gets said about the importance of abandoning crap.”

Ira Glass

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