“This is not your mom’s fairy tale.' From a review of my novel, 'Course of Mirrors.” — Ashen Venema Copy Share Image
“Not that length and weight alone indicate excellence; many epic tales are pretty much epic crap.” — Stephen King Copy Share Image
Everybody has different stories about where I came from. Nobody really knows. — Mitch Horowitz Copy Share Image
The myth of unending consumption has taken the place of the belief in life everlasting. — Ivan Illich Copy Share Image
I have a lot of good stories for talk shows about the conditions in which I worked. — Gillian Jacobs Copy Share Image
Is there anything more tedious than the often repeated tales of the old and forgetful? — Charles Caleb Colton Copy Share Image
There was a place in childhood that I remember well, And there a voice of sweetest tone bright fairy tales did tell. — Samuel Lover Copy Share Image
If you go back to early folk, it's all storytelling; that's exactly what it is: some guy telling a story in a… — Passenger Copy Share Image
...Fan fiction is a way of the culture repairing the damage done in a system where contemporary myths are owned by corporations… — Henry Jenkins Copy Share Image
“It is the storyteller, the dream-maker, the myth-maker, that is our phoenix, that represents us at our best, and at our most… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Believing in fate has probably always arisen in part because of the delights and terrors of storytelling. We have to realize--to learn--that… — Margaret Visser Copy Share Image
So I like to try to go back and develop pure visual storytelling. Because to me, it's one of the most exciting… — Brian De Palma Copy Share Image
What I am used to is 'Gali Guleiyan,' and people talking about my performances, what new I have tried in terms of… — Manoj Bajpayee Copy Share Image
All myth is an enriched pattern, a two-faced proposition, allowing its operator to say one thing and mean another, to lead a… — Anne Carson Copy Share Image
When it comes to storytelling, not taking risks is riskier than swinging for the fences. I have very simple ambitions when it… — David Nevins Copy Share Image
We all want explanations for why we behave as we do and for the ways the world around us functions. Even when… — Dan Ariely Copy Share Image
Well, let’s start with the maxim that the best writing is understated, meaning it’s not full of flourishes and semaphores and tap… — Gene Weingarten Copy Share Image
“A story, whether it be novel, short fiction, screenplay, play or poetry or any form of non-fiction, is like an ecosystem in… — Andrew Binks Copy Share Image
I grew up with probably three different authors having a seminal influence on my childhood, Dr. Seuss being one and Maurice Sendak… — Christopher Meledandri Copy Share Image
“I think of myth and magic as the hieroglyphics of the human psyche. They are a special language that circumvents conscious thought… — Ripley Patton Copy Share Image
“At first he told them that everything was just the same, that the pink snails were still in the house where he… — Gabriel García Márquez Copy Share Image
Novels institutionalize the ruse of eros. It becomes a narrative texture of sustained incongruence, emotional and cognitive. It permits the reader to… — Anne Carson Copy Share Image
“Anything that doesn't fit this mode has been shoved into an area of lesser solemnity called 'genre fiction,' and it is here… — Margaret Atwood Copy Share Image
