Everything is a tale, Martin. What we believe, what we know, what we remember, even what we dream. Everything is a story,… — Carlos Ruiz Zafon Copy Share Image
I just come up with the stories and write them as well as I can. There's not really a great deal of… — Iain Banks Copy Share Image
I learned that myth doesn’t mean a lie; it means a traditional story that tells you something about people and their worldview… — John Green Copy Share Image
“Rain's pouring and it's too cold. All people bored and I even accord What to do but spell a tale told: So… — Ana Claudia Antunes Copy Share Image
“Into an allegory a man can put only what he already knows; in a myth he puts what he does not yet… — C.S. Lewis Copy Share Image
Persons attempting to find a motive in this narrative will be prosecuted; persons attempting to find a moral in it will be… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
Perhaps we are born knowing the tales of our grandmothers and all their ancestral kin continually run in our blood repeating them… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
There is a narrative to every life, and I believe in the classic mode of storytelling that goes back to Homer and… — Oliver Stone Copy Share Image
I could tell you a tale about something,' Miach offered, rubbing her hand absently. 'If you like.' She frowned thoughtfully. 'What sort… — Lynn Kurland Copy Share Image
“Writing a balanced, beautiful novel, where plot and character and setting and pacing and narrative structure and imagery and, above all, story… — Nicola Griffith Copy Share Image
I guess storytelling's always been in my blood. My mom said I was always dressing up and jumping in front of the… — Amber Valletta Copy Share Image
“They way one does research into nonexistent history is to tell the story and find out what happened. I believe this isn't… — Ursula K. Le Guin Copy Share Image
I have enough friends who are gamers. I actually enjoy watching them play because of the visuals and the storytelling of the… — Bill Watterson Copy Share Image
I wanted to be a writer as a teen... so storytelling was my first love. In my late teens, design became an… — Yves Behar Copy Share Image
“The universal hero myth always refers to a powerful man or god-man who vanquishes evil in the form of drag- ons, serpents,… — C.G. Jung Copy Share Image
Twain's 'A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court' made me long to wake in an era when my Casio wristwatch would strike… — Anthony Doerr Copy Share Image
The show is not a history lesson or intellectual exploration. It is entertainment based on tension, irony and storytelling that is closely… — Matthew Weiner Copy Share Image
The moment kids start to lie is the moment storytelling begins. They are talking about things they didn't see. It's amazing. It's… — Kim Young-ha Copy Share Image
If you live with the myths in your mind, you will find yourself always in mythological situations. They cover everything that can… — Joseph Campbell Copy Share Image
“Believe it or not, stories don’t function in terms of beginnings, middles and ends, they simply have beginnings, middles, and ends.” — FILM CRIT HULK Copy Share Image
A society that's addicted to narratives with beginnings, middles, and endings will eventually yearn to end. We just want it to end. — Douglas Rushkoff Copy Share Image
If we can find our storytelling in more complimentary ways with the technology, I think it's just going to get better and… — David Droga Copy Share Image
I have always thought that these two ways of talking, one is the fantastic, the fable, the fairy tale, and the other… — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image
For me, storytelling is all about how we learn about each other. I'm so curious about people, what makes them tick, why… — Thomas Sadoski Copy Share Image
Everything and everybody is sooner or later identified, defined, and put in perspective. The truth as always is simultaneously better and worse… — William Saroyan Copy Share Image
I write about people in small towns; I don't write about people living in big cities. My kind of storytelling depends upon… — Lee Smith Copy Share Image
“What do you do when your head - your imagination is filled with tales to last a hundred lifetimes? You focus on… — Storm Princeholm Copy Share Image
“T[he rules of writing] require that the episodes in a tale shall be necessary parts of the tale, and shall help to… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
I'd have been a filmmaker or a cartoonist or something else which extended from the visual arts into the making of narratives… — Jonathan Lethem Copy Share Image
I wondered if the person who really loves you is the person who knows all your stories, the person who WANTS to… — Gabrielle Zevin Copy Share Image
Chord progression is progression of emotions; storytelling - taking one person from one mood to the next. We are doing the same… — Richie Hawtin Copy Share Image
Not only a great game, 'Uncharted 2' raised the bar for storytelling for the medium. The game treated action as a part… — Rob Manuel Copy Share Image
Suspension of disbelief is a necessary ingredient in all storytelling. So it has been with the government's narrative that it is delivering… — Jo Johnson Copy Share Image
Over and over, we start our own tales, compose our own stories, whether our lives are short or long. Until at last… — Cameron Dokey Copy Share Image
The tricks of magic follow the archetypes of narrative fiction — there are tales of creation and loss, death and resurrection, and… — Marco Tempest Copy Share Image
But, look, Washington is a town that creates myths for its own existence and its own amusement, and I was a subject… — Karl Rove Copy Share Image
There can't be a pure myth, especially when the myth has been handed down in the oral tradition. As the stories are… — Maxine Hong Kingston Copy Share Image
What I really like doing is storytelling, finding the body language that is necessary for the story. And when I'm doing it… — Patricia Birch Copy Share Image
“Because you’re like a story that hasn’t happened yet. Because I want to see what you will do. I want to be… — Holly Black Copy Share Image
I always say that, if you have great actors and great storytelling and great monsters, and you mix them together, nine times… — Gregory Nicotero Copy Share Image
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