I am and always have been fascinated with people, and I have a very good time coming up with the narratives of… — Bennett Miller Copy Share Image
Our experience with knowledge, the way we know things, is not that neat. It doesn't fit into a grand narrative, the way… — Richard Misrach Copy Share Image
I am a person who believes in asking questions, in not conforming for the sake of conforming. I am deeply dissatisfied -… — Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie Copy Share Image
My background with acting is deeply interwoven with my family life and my childhood. It's a 'Peter Pan'-like narrative, something that was… — Cole Sprouse Copy Share Image
From early on there were two things that filled my life - music and storytelling, both of them provoked by my father.… — Athol Fugard Copy Share Image
A beautifully written tale that lives somewhere between landscape and memory, where regret becomes a prison, and a story told often enough… — Brunonia Barry Copy Share Image
“I was starting to believe I was a character in a greater story, which is why the elements of story made sense… — Donald Miller Copy Share Image
I was interested in dark subject matter for sure, including folklore, fairy tales, mythology, archetypal stories of people going into the bowels… — Robert Eggers Copy Share Image
“My turn now. The story of one of my insanities. For a long time I boasted that I was master of all… — Arthur Rimbaud Copy Share Image
“But a good novel is first of all an event; as distinguished from the continuous rush of many sensations and the messy… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“I am drawn mostly, insistently to the human voice. How powerful and necessary the solo voice, the experience of being someone, something… — Ander Monson Copy Share Image
“TWO COMPENSATIONS FOR GROWING OLD are worth putting on record as the condition asserts itself. The first is a vantage point gained… — Anthony Powell Copy Share Image
“An undergraduate researching the "witch hunt" cases asked for evidence that there had been more than one hundred cases, noting that the… — Ross Cheit Copy Share Image
The man who tells the tale if he has a tale worth telling will know exactly what he is about and this… — William Golding Copy Share Image
I had an idea in the beginning to do a book about some of the events that I had covered, just various… — Bob Schieffer Copy Share Image
“It doesn't matter whether a sequence of words is called a history or a story: that is, whether it is intended to… — Northrop Frye Copy Share Image
American movies are often very good at mining those great underlying myths that make films robustly travel across class, age, gender, culture. — Tom Hooper Copy Share Image
I was excited to discover, in this tale by Eliade, the key themes that I most hope to understand better time, consciousness… — Francis Ford Coppola Copy Share Image
I love creating individual short stories within chapters, but I want to get better at building consistent narratives from start to finish. — David Crabb Copy Share Image
“It's the kind of story that people tell. There are monsters in this world, to be sure, but there are a sight… — Gerald Morris Copy Share Image
...What happens is of little significance compared with the stories we tell ourselves about what happens. Events matter little, only stories of… — Rabih Alameddine Copy Share Image
Zachary Jernigan can't write a bad story. He couldn't even if he tried. Each and every time I start one of his… — David Anthony Durham Copy Share Image
I've always loved writing, and the impulse for me is storytelling. I don't sit down and think: 'What political message can I… — Randa Abdel-Fattah Copy Share Image
Truth, naked, unblushing truth, the first virtue of all serious history, must be the sole recommendation of this personal narrative. — Edward Gibbon Copy Share Image
There can be no stronger proof of the impoverishment of our contemporary culture than the popular - though profoundly mistaken - definition… — Rollo May Copy Share Image
Social media companies must combine their mastery of the latest in real-time, location based or augmented reality technologies in the service of… — Simon Mainwaring Copy Share Image
There will always be storytelling, whether it's on the big silver screen, or it's your television or your iPhone or whatever, people… — Stellan Skarsgard Copy Share Image
Myths are stories about people who become too big for their lives temporarily, so that they crash into other lives or brush… — Anne Carson Copy Share Image
“I bleed words. I dream in narrative. I live in infinite worlds. I befriend figmental characters. I wish on stars in other… — Richelle E. Goodrich Copy Share Image
“A myth is 'a narrative involving supernatural or fancied persons embodying popular ideas or social phenomena.' Women love telling stories . .… — Lucy O'Brien Copy Share Image
In terms of the mechanics of story, myth is an intriguing one because we didn't make myth up; myth is an imprinture… — Baz Luhrmann Copy Share Image
Touching on universality is an important part of effective storytelling, but the problem with cliches is that they are tired and dull.… — Miguel Syjuco Copy Share Image
For me, I've always been fascinated by tales of the Chinese railroad and the workers and the conditions of the workers who… — Lisa Joy Copy Share Image
Unscrupulous agitators have been at work spreading atrocity stories which can only be compared with those lies that were fabricated by the… — Adolf Hitler Copy Share Image
It's actually pretty complex, because there's two levels of reality in the narrative. One is what really took place, and the other… — Gabriel Byrne Copy Share Image
Star Wars has always struck a chord with people. There are issues of loyalty, of friendship, of good and evil... The theme… — George Lucas Copy Share Image
“The romantic fairy tales we grew up with -- where marriage is the happy ending rather than the opening scene -- are… — Ada Calhoun Copy Share Image
Just because something is told as a story and that story is part legend or myth, or feat of imagination, does not… — Chris Priestley Copy Share Image
Historical facts are the vital framework around which non-fiction writers construct their narratives; they are, quite simply, indispensable. — Saul David Copy Share Image
“The folktale world is oriented positively toward its protagonist; a folktale is defined by the hero's triumph: magic weapons and helpers are,… — Darko Suvin Copy Share Image