Kate DiCamillo Quotes

As human beings, the closest we can get to truth is through story.

We [people] are a species that's wired to tell stories. We need stories. It's how we make sense of things. It's how we learn.

It is my belief that we as human beings have a need to tell stories - I think it's evolutionary. So you can think of the short story as a literary form, or you can instead think of stories.

Stories are the most important thing in the world. Without stories, we wouldn't be human beings at all.

You have to understand, my dears, that the shortest distance between truth and a human being is a story.

A story is based on what people think is important, so when we live a story, we are telling people around us what we think is important.

[I have a] fondness for telling stories, like the Arab storytellers on the marketplace. ... I will never grow tired of [telling] stories [and] I make the mistake of thinking that everyone has the same enthusiasm!

That’s how people live, by telling stories. What’s the first thing a kid says when he learns how to talk? “Tell me a story.” That’s how we understand who we are, where we come from. Stories are everything.

This is how deeply rooted stories are, folks. We crave them before we can walk, and we start telling them before we can talk.

The truth of the matter was stories was everything and everything was stories. Everybody told stories. It was a way of saying who they were in the world. It was their understanding of themselves. It was letting themselves know how they believed the world worked, the right way and the way that was not so right.

You're never going to kill storytelling, because it's built into the human plan. We come with it.

Humankind has been telling stories forever and will be telling stories forever.

Humans are kind of story-propagating creatures. If you think of how we spend our days, think of all the time you spend on entertainment. How much of your entertainment centers around stories? Most pieces of music tell stories. Even hanging out with your friends, you talk, you tell stories to each other. They're all stories. We live in stories.

I'm still really fascinated with characters and people and telling their stories.

I think as a kid I always liked to listen to people. I loved hearing stories.

When I was little, I always used to like to tell stories cuz it was entertaining to people.

People love stories. They need stories.

I think there is a human instinct to tell stories, no matter who you are or where you live.

I believe in communication; books communicate ideas and make bridges between people.

We are the only animal that tells stories.

There will always be storytelling, whether it's on the big silver screen, or it's your television or your iPhone or whatever, people will keep on telling stories.

People expect me to be, first and foremost, a storyteller. I lead by telling stories.

My job is more about helping people tell their stories in ever more interesting ways.

People just love stories.

Telling stories and having them received is so important. That dialogue is everything. I tell my students all the time that what separates us as human beings is our ability to hold stories. Our narrative history. There is so much power in that. Storytelling is our human industry.