The interface of history and myth is where my stories take place anyway, and there's always a way I'm trying to tap… — Steve Stern Copy Share Image
I try to look on the sunny side of life. If something dramatic happens to me, I always try to recount it… — Suzanne Shaw Copy Share Image
“A story unfolds over time and often involves characters and events. In the corporate context, they often serve the aim to 'inCITE':… — Calvin Niles Copy Share Image
Because of my Marxism, I was not into myths or miracles, whether it was the virgin birth, the physical resurrection or casting… — Lionel Blue Copy Share Image
Losing all the preconceptions that I had about storytelling, about the world, you know, and learning to see the world from a… — Ciro Guerra Copy Share Image
I don't need to write comics for a living. I have movies and TV for that. I write comics for one reason… — J. Michael Straczynski Copy Share Image
The idea that the curtain rises on what is often more or less a happy scene, and it will fall just a… — Daniel Handler Copy Share Image
“To be capable of great love, (that of myths, legends, and fairy tales), one must have had more so, greatly suffered, (that… — Cody Edward Lee Miller Copy Share Image
“One of the most moving narratives of modern history is the story of how men and women languishing under various forms of… — Terry Eagleton Copy Share Image
If I have something I want to say that is too difficult for adults to swallow, then I write it in a… — Madeleine L'Engle Copy Share Image
“How did it begin?' Miss Cotton asked. When?' they replied. In the beginning,' Aunt Velma said. Wid tears,' they assured her. Wid… — Opal Palmer Adisa Copy Share Image
Rumors and reports of man's relation with animals are the world's oldest news stories, headlined in the stars of the zodiac, posted… — Lewis H. Lapham Copy Share Image
Fairy tales begin with conflict because we all begin our lives with conflict. We are all misfit for the world, and somehow… — Jack Zipes Copy Share Image
“Bound souls. He had always thought the stories of men and women bound throughout all eternity by the strength of passion, either… — Ann Marston Copy Share Image
There are certain scenes, certain hills and valleys and groves of pines which demand that a story shall be written about them.… — Arthur Machen Copy Share Image
“The story of what it means to be human is never complete. Every generation will produce its own share of comedies and… — Kilroy J. Oldster Copy Share Image
A lot of storytelling... you're a bit hypnotized by it, and things just come out in certain ways, and you look at… — Owen King Copy Share Image
Thinking through how you find that intersection between individual, compelling human narratives and structural, systemic injustices - that's the place that's most… — Sarah Stillman Copy Share Image
Not all poetry wants to be storytelling. And not all storytelling wants to be poetry. But great storytellers and great poets share… — Sarah Kay Copy Share Image
“This is the man who will be my grandfather—the man who will be the man who was my grandfather. The tenses slur… — Wendell Berry Copy Share Image
In movies, storytelling and every single art form, we're creating wonder. You're starting with a blank page and creating something that doesn't… — David Copperfield Copy Share Image
I think because I am a physical person, and because my way of expressing and performing and storytelling or explaining has always… — Zoe Bell Copy Share Image
Myths are part of our DNA. We're a civilisation with a continuous culture. The effort to modernize it keeps it alive. Readers… — Amish Tripathi Copy Share Image
It's like everyone tells a story about themselves inside their own head. Always. All the time. That story makes you what you… — Patrick Rothfuss Copy Share Image
From the early days of the Raj, Shakespeare had been woven into the fabric of India's education, and my father understood that… — Felicity Kendal Copy Share Image
Actually, I love mythology. When I was a kid I was obsessed with myth and I wanted to be a mythologist when… — Amber Benson Copy Share Image
There are epic impulses everywhere you look in There Will Be Blood; what's missing is character development, focused storytelling and, most significantly… — Stephanie Zacharek Copy Share Image
Narrative is so important for building the sexual tension. Can you imagine a horror movie that only shows the blood, with no… — Erika Lust Copy Share Image
Each country has its own way of communicating a narrative and, through that, expressing family experiences in emotional stories. — Elvis Mitchell Copy Share Image
An interface can be a powerful narrative device. And as we collect more and more personally and socially relevant data, we have… — Aaron Koblin Copy Share Image
Fairy-tales aren't just about finding handsome princes. They're about fulfilling your dreams and standing up for what you believe in. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Whenever y'all are in the store from and y'all are trying to decide whether or not to get something, think if you… — Kanye West Copy Share Image
I was on the outside of the industry. So I started a podcast early in the podcast boom and that caught on… — Ari Shaffir Copy Share Image
Some people's lives seem to flow in a narrative; mine had many stops and starts. That's what trauma does. It interrupts the… — Jessica Stern Copy Share Image
“I did not want to tell her what happened, but I had to now. I could not stop talking because now I… — Chris Cleave Copy Share Image
Nobody has ever written as many enjoyable, fun-to-read crime novels as Agatha Christie. It's all about the storytelling and the pleasure of… — Sophie Hannah Copy Share Image
People think that cartoons are meant to be watched on television and not in cinemas. To get people into cinemas to see… — Ronnie Screwvala Copy Share Image
Don't the great tales never end?" "No, they never end as tales," said Frodo. "But the people in them come, and go… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
You will go on & meet someone else & I'll just be a chapter in ur tale, but for me, u were,… — Jhiess Krieg Copy Share Image
“While science can be many things, above all it is a way for our mistake-making, illusion-prone, storytelling brains to compare different methods… — Mike McRae Copy Share Image