To me, there is nothing but puerility in a tale in which the human form - and local human passions and conditions… — H. P. Lovecraft Copy Share Image
I grew up not reading fiction; I watched movies and read comic books, and one of the ways I taught myself to… — Kevin Wilson Copy Share Image
“Laugh and cry and tell stories. Sad stories about bodies stolen, bodies no longer here. Enraging stories about the false images, devastating… — Eli Clare Copy Share Image
“It is a precisely datable historical event having the full weight that real historical happenings have; like them, too, it happens once… — Pope Benedict XVI Copy Share Image
“So that’s why I’m such a big fan of storytelling. I think the most important thing is empathy. And it’s less about… — Jeanette Walls Copy Share Image
Narrative and characters have always interested me. I never tried to alienate an audience. Of course, gradually, I wanted a bigger and… — Miranda July Copy Share Image
You have to think about storytelling over the long haul: what is going to engage an audience for, potentially, years and how… — Jeremy Podeswa Copy Share Image
I surrendered to a world of my imagination, reenacting all those wonderful tales my father would read aloud to me. I became… — Andrew Wyeth Copy Share Image
“Inevitably, I became distracted by tales that I knew held no promise for us—accounts of murders that had long since been solved,… — Caleb Carr Copy Share Image
“Life is a story. It’s full of chapters. And the beauty of life is that not only do you get to choose… — Kevin Hart Copy Share Image
For most of human history, 'literature,' both fiction and poetry, has been narrated, not written — heard, not read. So fairy tales,… — Angela Carter Copy Share Image
I remember writing '5 Dollars' out of intense listening sessions of Bruce Springsteen. I don't know if it's obvious, but I was… — Christine and the Queens Copy Share Image
“The simple answer is that I have changed my techniques in order to avoid the relentless sameness of my material, but I… — Ben Marcus Copy Share Image
I've had enormous luck and enormous pleasure in working in such forms as movies and plays that I loved when I was… — Jules Feiffer Copy Share Image
There is always this quarrel about what is preferable: the straight, naturalistic, epic storytelling or the modernistic, disjointed, slightly hermetic one. To… — Per Petterson Copy Share Image
“It was a story they could tell their children, something out of a fairy tale. How their mother had not known who… — Melissa de la Cruz Copy Share Image
I have always admired the Russian cinema, their incisive storytelling, sharp camera work and brilliant acting in them. Indian filmmakers can learn… — Victor Banerjee Copy Share Image
The funny thing is that in Bosnia there are no words that are equivalent to fiction and nonfiction. From the storytelling point… — Aleksandar Hemon Copy Share Image
So for me, it can be theatre or being in L.A. or in some other part of the world, as long as… — Dilshad Vadsaria Copy Share Image
The sheer scale of what the Tories are attempting to do is staggering. But Sinn Fein will not agree to this ideologically… — Martin McGuinness Copy Share Image
Narrative becomes the way you make sense of chaos. That's how you focus the world. It's the only reason you should ever… — Dennis Lehane Copy Share Image
Even though L.A Confidential box-office was a fraction of, say, Titanic or the Grinch movie, it finds its audience and will continue… — Curtis Hanson Copy Share Image
A myth is a fixed way of looking at the world which cannot be destroyed because, looked at through the myth, all… — Edward de Bono Copy Share Image
“The narrative fallacy, Bezos explained, was a term coined by Nassim Nicholas Taleb in his 2007 book The Black Swan to describe… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“And giving it a happy ending, when all know that tales never end, and the happy ending is but a moment to… — Robin Hobb Copy Share Image
What's fun to me is that we can make movies but we are no longer restricted by this two-hour timeframe. It gives… — Matt Duffer Copy Share Image
“People often think of storytelling as a performative act of persuading others, conveying messages, and selling ideas. But we must recognize that… — Calvin Niles Copy Share Image
“For most of human history, myths have survived through changing times because they did not demand to be seen as a literal… — Jonah Sachs Copy Share Image
Ever since human beings learned to talk to each other, we've been fascinated with storytelling of every kind. Blessed (or cursed) with… — Lloyd Alexander Copy Share Image
The problem with memory is that is changes whatever it touches. It is never that accurate. As a result, I end up… — Li-Young Lee Copy Share Image
I don't see a lot of narratives written where a woman who looks like me gets to be beautiful and sexualized and… — Viola Davis Copy Share Image
“The most classic horror tale of this latter type is the Old Testament story of Job, who becomes human Astro-Turf in a… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
“This isn’t some sweet Disney bedtime story. This is a real fairy tale. With death, and blood, and suffering. And I never… — Craig Schaefer Copy Share Image
The thing I love about this story [The Killing] and this type of storytelling is that I don't have to know the… — Veena Sud Copy Share Image
The reason that I like to use classical myths as models is because African American writers and African American stories are usually… — Jesmyn Ward Copy Share Image
When American liberals go to the UK they see the Tories as the Washington Generals, and they see the Labor Party as… — Rush Limbaugh Copy Share Image
What I like about fairy tales is the language and the matter-of-fact way of introducing magic, where it's accepted that a fox… — Alice Hoffman Copy Share Image
“Stories give you a way to see things. A way to understand the events of your life. Even if you don't realize… — Matthew Kirby Copy Share Image
[In mountaineering, if] we look for private experience rather than public history, even getting to the top becomes an optional narrative rather… — Rebecca Solnit Copy Share Image
For me, any fiction of nobles and swords necessarily has to be a story of corruption, injustice and savagely violent conflict -… — Richard K. Morgan Copy Share Image
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