Category: stories...

the ritual way the Plains Indians opened a story
Tell me a story - still comprise four of the most powerful words in English. (P. Conroy)
If you sense a "story" about to start in your mind, say "not now." You want to cultivate composure and take a vow not to tell yourself stories.
listening to other people's stories without trying to top them
A good story cannot be devised; it has to be distilled. (R. Chandler)
The unread story is not a story; it is little black marks on wood pulp. The reader, reading it, makes it live: a live thing, a story. (Ursula K. Le Guin)
When we read a story, we inhabit it. The covers of the book are like a roof and four walls. What is to happen next will take place within the four walls of the story. And this is possible because the story's voice makes everything its own. (John Berger)
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)