Kate DiCamillo Quotes

People still love a good story, and I don't think that will change.

Human beings need stories, and we're looking for them in all kinds of places; whether it's television, whether it's comic books or movies, radio plays, whatever form, people are hungry for stories.

I tell stories. That's what I do. I've always told stories.

People love stories. They need stories.

I never saw myself as much of a storyteller.

Reading fairytales to children expands their imaginations.

I'm just a story teller.

Everyone seems quite good at stories and making them up.

There is something in human beings that loves stories.

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 like telling stories.

If you want somebody to tell you a story, one of the most easiest and effective ways is if you're telling them a story.

I am a storyteller, and I take great pride in the storytelling and a great joy.

People love a good story, even if it's a story that has very little truth to it.

I really love storytelling.

Humans like stories. Humans need stories. Stories are good. Stories work. Story clarifies and captures the essence of the human spirit. Story, in all its forms—of life, of love, of knowledge—has traced the upward surge of mankind. And story, you mark my words, will be with the last human to draw breath.

Children, only animals live entirely in the Here and Now. Only nature knows neither memory nor history. But man - let me offer you a definition - is the storytelling animal. Wherever he goes he wants to leave behind not a chaotic wake, not an empty space, but the comforting marker-buoys and trail-signs of stories. He has to go on telling stories. He has to keep on making them up. As long as there's a story, it's all right. Even in his last moments, it's said, in the split second of a fatal fall - or when he's about to drown - he sees, passing rapidly before him, the story of his whole life.

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

I don't really believe in stories, only in the people who tell them.

Storytelling is the important thing.

Whether in cave paintings or the latest uses of the Internet, human beings have always told their histories and truths through parable and fable. We are inveterate storytellers.

I'm fascinated with the stories that we tell. Real histories become fantasies and fairy tales, morality tales and fables. There's something interesting and funny and perverse about the way fairytale sometimes passes for history, for truth.

I don't know that movies are important. But I know that stories are important. Movies may disappear. They've only been around, for God's sake, for the last hundred years... I think that it's the need to tell stories, and that people need to be told stories. It's the old sitting around the fire, you know.

No matter what you write, you actually can't help retelling a fairy tale somewhere along the way.