Here's an important thing about all storytelling that young people, especially Millennials, don't understand - you need a third act. — Gavin McInnes Copy Share Image
Storybook endings, fairy tales coming true. Deep down inside we want to believe they still do. In our secretest heart, it's our… — Carrie Underwood Copy Share Image
“It is interesting that the worst retellings of traditional fairy tales are those that heavy-handedly take the step of making a moral… — Isobelle Carmody Copy Share Image
“Fairy tales are just true stories that humans have chosen not to believe in any more. Besides, this is Myths and Legends… — Stacie Simpson Copy Share Image
What flows into you from myth is not truth but reality (truth is always about something, but reality is that about which… — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
“I am thus led to the proposition that there is no fiction or nonfiction as we commonly understand the distinction: there is… — E.L. Doctorow Copy Share Image
I'm endlessly intrigued by stories, and I love helping someone to formulate his or her story. I can drift off when I'm… — Andrew Solomon Copy Share Image
“Mere grimness is as easy as grinning; but it requires something to put a handsome face on a story. Narratives become of… — Leigh Hunt Copy Share Image
Mythographer was suggested by the man who made my website, actually. I do write a lot about myth and I do feel… — Marina Warner Copy Share Image
My eighth grade teacher, Mrs. Pabst, had done her master's thesis on Tolkien. She showed me how the trilogy was patterned after… — Rick Riordan Copy Share Image
I don't read or write SF for cutting edge ideas; I read and write it for the storytelling, and every story is… — Erica Brown Copy Share Image
“Keep in mind that in the whole long tradition of storytelling, from Greek myths through Shakespeare through King Arthur and Robin Hood,… — Michael Montoure Copy Share Image
We sleep to time's hurdy-gurdy; we wake, if ever we wake, to the silence of God. And then, when we wake to… — Annie Dillard Copy Share Image
My models were oral, were storytellers. Like my grandmothers and my aunts. It's true, a lot of people in my life were… — Edwidge Danticat Copy Share Image
“I have a very clear memory of my first encounter with myth, sitting in a mobile library and travelling, at the same… — Alan Lee Copy Share Image
“Great leaders are great storytellers. These leaders know that they must tell powerful stories to engage and enlist their followers. They know… — Nick Morgan Copy Share Image
The future of cinema and communications is all about collaboration and the decentralized control of storytelling. We're all part of the story;… — Adrian Grenier Copy Share Image
This is a bad story.” “Sorry. I’m really sorry. I shouldn’t have told you.” “No, you should,” I say. “But—” “I don’t… — Emma Donoghue Copy Share Image
Somehow the Tories have deflected the righteous anger at the bankers who we bailed out. The Tories manage to take that outrage… — Bill Bailey Copy Share Image
The Wheel of Time turns, and Ages come and pass, leaving memories that become legend. Legend fades to myth, and even myth… — Robert Jordan Copy Share Image
The only thing that's different about doing a superhero show is that you can have your hero do things that a normal… — Cheo Hodari Coker Copy Share Image
Fairy tales since the beginning of recorded time, and perhaps earlier, have been “a means to conquer the terrors of mankind through… — Jack Zipes Copy Share Image
Even 'Piku' was quite an experiment in terms of storytelling because on the surface nothing happens in the film. If you ask… — Shoojit Sircar Copy Share Image
All love stories are tales of beginnings. When we talk about falling in love, we go to the beginning, to pinpoint the… — Meghan O'Rourke Copy Share Image
I've been interested in writing and storytelling since I learned to read, but it wasn't until I read Dylan Thomas, when I… — Jay McInerney Copy Share Image
What interests me about fiction is plot. And what interests me about plot is whether someone tells a story that moves me… — Malcolm Gladwell Copy Share Image
We lay out our lives in a narrative we understand, like a movie, but are you enjoying making it or are you… — Donald Glover Copy Share Image
“My hearts been fleeting up so high,I'm longing for the leaps of the day & heaps of the night to pace my… — Madhushree Das Copy Share Image
I love telling stories. And even in single images, I tend to have stories inside them. I've always loved film, but I… — Dave McKean Copy Share Image
The delight we experience when we allow ourselves to respond to a fairy tale, the enchantment we feel, comes not from the… — Bruno Bettelheim Copy Share Image
The human brain has evolved the capacity to impose a narrative, complete with chronology and cause-and-effect logic, on whatever it encounters, no… — Robin Marantz Henig Copy Share Image
“If I’m unhappy with how female stories are portrayed, then at least I can do something about it. The great thing about… — Elinor Cook Copy Share Image
“Storytelling creates a healing serum. The thematic unguent of our personal story represents a fusion of the ineffable truths that each of… — Kilroy J. Oldster Copy Share Image
I think when I write movies and plays and books and magazine articles, they're all storytelling, and reality is the common denominator… — Lawrence Wright Copy Share Image
If a secret history of books could be written, and the author's private thoughts and meanings noted down alongside of his story,… — William Makepeace Thackeray Copy Share Image
I'm thrilled to continue the tradition of the spectacular, cinematic, horrifying, exciting and emotional storytelling of 'The Walking Dead.' I'm a huge… — Scott M. Gimple Copy Share Image
As critical acclaim and response has built up, every interview I give is a chance to puncture the myth I've created about… — James Ellroy Copy Share Image
“The images of myth must be the daemonic guardians, omnipresent and unnoticed, which protect the growth of the young mind, and guide… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
In college, I became interested in folk tales and fairy tales. Gradually I became more and more interested in the underlying meaning… — Brian Froud Copy Share Image
“Why would you save me? Because you, mouse, can tell Gregory a story. Stories are light. Light is precious in a world… — Kate DiCamillo Copy Share Image
