“Narration, after all, isn’t just a literary function. It represents the human capacity to tell stories in such a manner that they… — Steve Almond Copy Share Image
I tend to think of a myth and then explore how it would play out if it were happening in the modern-day… — Rick Riordan Copy Share Image
“If I imagine the genesis of a novelist in the form of an exemplary tale, a "myth," that genesis looks to me… — Milan Kundera Copy Share Image
This lie of a life can as quickly as it came dissolve. We seek only reprieve and welcome the darkness. The myth… — Lamb Of God Copy Share Image
There is no line between the 'real world' and 'world of myth and symbol.' Objects, sensations, hit with the impact of hallucination. — William S. Burroughs Copy Share Image
“We want to believe that our lives have some objective meaning, and that our sacrifices matter to something beyond the stories in… — Yuval Noah Harari Copy Share Image
I'm not a big gamer myself. I've (become) increasingly interested in games. And I certainly am passionate about, about storytelling in gaming.… — Andy Serkis Copy Share Image
When those myths were created, when the Bible was written, man didn't know what an atom or a germ was, or where… — Bill Maher Copy Share Image
So I wanted to write a play that put some thoughts and feelings in the air about the miracle and the mystery… — Will Eno Copy Share Image
The only thing I would want to say is that storytelling is ancient; it's something that everybody does. Kids mustn't be in… — Natalie Babbitt Copy Share Image
“A writer is a dangerous friend. Everything you say, all of your life and experience, is fodder for our writing. We mean… — Randy Murray Copy Share Image
“Friedan demystified the fairy tale and traced it back to its roots. She named the unnamed problem. She told women they weren’t… — Carina Chocano Copy Share Image
“Fables should be taught as fables, myths as myths, and miracles as poetic fancies. To teach superstitions as truths is a most… — Hypathia of Alexandria Copy Share Image
What I like about narrative in general is when there is some incongruity between the form and content. Let's say, mixing up… — Kelly Link Copy Share Image
“Her earnestness and apparent belief of what she narrated, excited the interest even of Aubrey; and often, as she told him the… — John William Polidori Copy Share Image
I have totally hitched my wagon to the horse of storytelling, and the idea that none of us know why we're born,… — Ethan Hawke Copy Share Image
He told them tales of bees and flowers, the ways of trees, and the strange creatures of the Forest, about the evil… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“Mama always did tell a good story, built a solid background, then deftly lead her engrossed listener through a series of doorways,… — Wendy Jean Copy Share Image
“Accurate and questioning dramatic and written narratives that expose true human character, is the necessary glue of any intelligent, enduring and compassionate… — Yon Walls Copy Share Image
Americans think cinema is about storytelling; I don't believe that. I think it's a language and everyone has to find their own… — Marjane Satrapi Copy Share Image
“Tell me tales of inconceivable fear and unimaginable love, in orbs whereto our sun is a nameless star, or unto which its… — Clark Ashton Smith Copy Share Image
I really enjoy the pastiche storytelling of watching separate stories slowly collide with one another. The audience gets to participate in trying… — Tim Kring Copy Share Image
With storytelling, you have to see yourself as the hero in the movie of your own life, and I kind of see… — Baron Vaughn Copy Share Image
“That guy in the corner. Never tells the truth, as a matter of principle. Why answer a question, he says, if you… — Pete McCarthy Copy Share Image
I think, with the balance of personal narrative, narrative continuity, and aesthetics, I always lean into what's interesting to me. — RaMell Ross Copy Share Image
“For me, stories are like WD-40 for the brain: they keep all the wheels and gears and clicky-things running smoothly. Without them,… — The Inkslinger Copy Share Image
The great enemy of the truth is not the lie, deliberate, contrived and dishonest but the myth persistent, persuasive and unrealistic. — John F. Kennedy Copy Share Image
“...just because one can guess the nature of a tale doesn't make it any less worth the telling. One might even find… — Sam Westhoek Copy Share Image
I've been very passionate about storytelling ever since I was a kid. I really don't remember a time when I didn't want… — Inbar Lavi Copy Share Image
Some of the storytelling we did in 'Battlestar Galactica,' to graft that onto 'Star Trek,' it would have required changing the entire… — Ronald D. Moore Copy Share Image
“We can be so heavily invested in our tales of sorrow and woe that we have no clue how much repeating that… — Catherine Carrigan Copy Share Image
Thanks to the proliferation of information being consumed on mobile devices and the Internet, management changed 'SportsCenter' from being a show where… — Rich Eisen Copy Share Image
I don't read many popular histories like the ones I write. The building blocks for my research are scholarly monographs, and the… — Rick Perlstein Copy Share Image
I used to do a lot of story writing and storytelling coming up through grade school. By the time I got to… — Rhea Seehorn Copy Share Image
In documentaries, there's a truth that unfolds unnaturally, and you get to chronicle it. In narratives, you have to create the situations… — Ava DuVernay Copy Share Image
I come from a filmmaking tradition and a storytelling background. So somehow I've emerged like a mutant who can straddle both worlds. — Alex Gibney Copy Share Image
I like to think that storytelling is something that can always bring success, if you tell it in the right way and… — Noah Kahan Copy Share Image
Our lives with all their miracles and wonders are merely a discontinuous string of incidents - until we create the narrative that… — Arlene Goldbard Copy Share Image
We've had fiction from the time of cave drawings. I think fiction, storytelling, and narrative in general will always exist in some… — Edwidge Danticat Copy Share Image
I don't write fiction but I do write narrative; I write memoirs that I treat like stories, so whenever I'm using somebody… — Vivian Gornick Copy Share Image
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