Monday, May 25, 2026, Orlando, Florida
If you are a regular visitor to this space, you already know my favorite label: storyteller. Not influencer, not pundit, not a man with suspiciously strong opinions about semicolons—just a storyteller. I have been under the spell of stories for as long as I can remember: first as a delighted reader, and then as a young writer finding his footing while moving with my widowed mother through rented homes in Bogotá, Colombia, between 1966 and early 1972, and later through two different houses in South Florida. Somewhere along the way, stories stopped being something I merely loved and became the way I made sense of the world. That path took me from Tropical Elementary in the early 1970s to student journalism at Riviera Junior (now Middle) and South Miami High School, then on to journalism studies at Miami-Dade Community College, and eventually to writing Reunion: A Story, Reunion: Coda, and Comings and Goings – The Art of Being Seen.
I have been under the spell of stories for as long as I can remember: first as a delighted reader, and then as a young writer finding his footing while moving with my widowed mother through rented homes in Bogotá, Colombia, between 1966 and early 1972, and later through two different houses in South Florida. Somewhere along the way, stories stopped being something I merely loved and became the way I made sense of the world.
Alex Diaz-Granados
Ten Goodreads Quotes About Stories
Because one good story always invites another, I thought it fitting to follow my own reflections with a small shelf of borrowed brilliance: ten memorable Goodreads quotes about stories—their power, their mystery, and their uncanny habit of explaining us to ourselves.
- “There is no greater agony than bearing an untold story inside you.” — Maya Angelou, I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings
- “After nourishment, shelter and companionship, stories are the thing we need most in the world.” — Philip Pullman
- “Stories can conquer fear, you know. They can make the heart bigger.” — Ben Okri
- “It’s like everyone tells a story about themselves inside their own head. Always. All the time. That story makes you what you are. We build ourselves out of that story.” — Patrick Rothfuss, The Name of the Wind
- “But how could you live and have no story to tell?” — Fyodor Dostoevsky, White Nights
- “Some of these things are true and some of them lies. But they are all good stories.” — Hilary Mantel, Wolf Hall
- “When we read a story, we inhabit it. The covers of the book are like a roof and four walls.” — John Berger, Keeping a Rendezvous: Essays
- “A story is a letter that the author writes to himself, to tell himself things that he would be unable to discover otherwise.” — Carlos Ruiz Zafón, The Shadow of the Wind
- “Stories you read when you’re the right age never quite leave you.” — Neil Gaiman, M Is for Magic
- “The purpose of a storyteller is not to tell you how to think, but to give you questions to think upon.” — Brandon Sanderson, The Way of Kings
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