“I love your stories. Tell me a story, Idgie. Go on, you old bee charmer. Tell me a good tall tale. Tell… — Fannie Flagg Copy Share Image
Storytelling is the game. It's what we all do. It's why Nike is Nike, it's why Apple is Apple, it's why Walt… — Gary Vaynerchuk Copy Share Image
I think the big thing is the fairy tale. It's taking old folk fairy tales and retelling them in modern day. I… — Lily Collins Copy Share Image
The storytelling gift is innate: one has it or one doesn't. But style is at least partly a learned thing: one refines… — Donna Tartt Copy Share Image
Myths grow all the time. If I was to listen to the number of times I've thrown teacups then we've gone through… — Alex Ferguson Copy Share Image
I think that good storytelling of any kind does promote a humility in that it encourages you to see the world the… — Jonathan Dee Copy Share Image
I love being a part of storytelling, so whether I'm getting to do that on Survivor, or do it through kids' adventure… — Jeff Probst Copy Share Image
In 6,000 years of storytelling, [people have] gone from depicting hunting on cave walls to depicting Shakespeare on Facebook walls. — Joe Sabia Copy Share Image
“Narratives are universally used for mediating emotional experiences. The purpose of aesthetic objects has been defined, in part, as 'the awakening, intensifying,… — Mikkel Wallentin Arndis Simonsen Andreas Hojlund Nielsen Copy Share Image
“These people showed a marked increase in connections between parts of the frontal cortex associated with self-concept and parts of the brain… — Florence Williams Copy Share Image
Narrative and metaphysics alike become flimsy and frivolous if they venture too far from the home base of all humanism - the… — John Updike Copy Share Image
Lawrence Hill, a cultural and spiritual descendant of West African griots, has used his vast storytelling talents to create an epic story… — Afua Cooper Copy Share Image
Hopping around time in a non-linear storytelling fashion (on 'Lost') allows you to bring back characters who are dead and, in some… — Damon Lindelof Copy Share Image
“Fairy tales in childhood are stepping stones throughout life, leading the way through trouble and trial. The value of fairy tales lies… — L.R. Knost Copy Share Image
“My goal is to sweep the reader away from his world and bring him along for the adventure. Learning something new shouldn’t… — H.B. Bolton Copy Share Image
“But stories don't end. They continue as long as you're alive. You just have to get on with things. Turn the page,… — Darren Shan Copy Share Image
One of the best things about folklore and fairy tales is that the best fantasy is what you find right around the… — Terri Windling Copy Share Image
“There are a colorful rainbow of events that make up one sentence in every narrative. It takes the literary in its entirety… — Deanna L. Lawlis Copy Share Image
I grew up with some kind of storytelling instinct, and when I write, my default setting is to find a story and… — Khaled Hosseini Copy Share Image
I just adore being on set. I adore storytelling. I can be on a set 70 hours a week and on those… — Jay Baruchel Copy Share Image
Web is going to become very big... The format is different in terms of its storytelling pattern and its duration. Web audience… — Arbaaz Khan Copy Share Image
“He who repeats a tale after a man, Is bound to say, as nearly as he can, Each single word, if he… — Geoffrey Chaucer Copy Share Image
I think my dad's influence on me as a writer, or just a creative thinker, is, more than anything, that I grew… — Gracie Abrams Copy Share Image
Star Wars is mythology. Its like Greek mythology or Shakespeare. Its the story of good versus evil over a very long span… — Michael Franti Copy Share Image
I have a bit of a love affair with fairy tales and some of the ideas of Irish mythology, like Oscar Wilde… — Hozier Copy Share Image
My life is storytelling. I believe in stories, in their incredible power to keep people alive, to keep the living alive, and… — Tim O'Brien Copy Share Image
“Science fiction and fantasy literature has always been defined by tales of heroism. It is meant to represent humanity at our very… — Mira Grant Copy Share Image
Think what you would have been now, if instead of being fed with tales and old wives' fables in childhood, you had… — Charles Lamb Copy Share Image
“It’s never too late to tell a good story, to create a new myth that rouses us from our intoxicated slumber, that… — Derek Rydall Copy Share Image
Fairy tales are more than true nit only because they prove that dragon's exist, but because they prove that dragons can be… — Coraline; The Movie Copy Share Image
The juxtaposition of words - the color, feeling, and sound of the words together - has as much to do with the… — Chad Smith Copy Share Image
“Giving a fuck what other people thought was a road straight to misery and pain; an obsession of the weak. To believe… — Stacia Kane Copy Share Image
“But not even Hitler can damage the fells' In 'The Tale of Beatrix Potter, A Autobiography' by Margaret Lane, first edition, page 170.” — Beatrix Potter Copy Share Image
“What I have written is drawn from experience — from seeing, hearing and working with mountaineers. In a land with few books… — Harry M. Caudill Copy Share Image
The more a character wants and the less a character has the ability to get what they want, the more you have… — Alex Hirsch Copy Share Image
Storytelling is storytelling. Good stories need compelling characters and interesting conflicts. That's the bottom line no matter what medium you're writing for. — D. J. MacHale Copy Share Image
“a lifetime’s worth of narratives happening at once—the television. At first I was amazed. Soon I found it predictable, however, and dulling… — Stephen P. Kiernan Copy Share Image
Theatre is filled w/ passion, risk and drama (as much behind-the-curtain as on stage), perfect ingredients for documentary storytelling. — Dori Berinstein Copy Share Image
Short forms are returning online. Interactivity is coming back; it was always there in oral storytelling. Each form has its pluses and… — Margaret Atwood Copy Share Image
“Sometimes a homeland becomes a tale. We love the story because it is about our homeland and we love our homeland even… — Refaat Alareer Copy Share Image