changed lives stories

"All stories teach, whether the storyteller intends them to or not. They teach the world we create. They teach the morality we live by. They teach it much more effectively than moral precepts and instructions". Philip Pullman, author of the "His Dark Materials" trilogy, speaking in 1996 "Everything we know comes in the form of a story, a narrative with a beginning and end. Delia Smith’s recipes and the handbook of latest version of Windows are stories just as much as 'Coronation Street'. A thing becomes meaningful only when we can embed it in a story." Dorothy Rowe, "The Independent on Sunday", 31 March 1996 "Human beings are meaning-seeking creatures; we crave narratives that have a beginning and an end - something that we rarely encounter in everyday life. Stories give coherence to the confusion of our experience." Author Karen Armstrong, "Guardian", 26 August 2006 "Stories are memory aids, instruction manuals and moral compasses." Aleks Krotoski, "Observer", 7 August 2011