I never start with the story first, which is maybe obvious, because the narrative line of my films is really not that… — Jim Jarmusch Copy Share Image
Aaron Dessner is an expert at letting the narrative carry the story. He's reminding me constantly of the importance of space and… — Gracie Abrams Copy Share Image
There is no such thing as a true tale. Truth has many faces and the truth is like to the old road… — Marion Zimmer Bradley Copy Share Image
All stories must end so, with the next tale winking out of the corners of the last pages, promising more, promising moonlight… — Catherynne M. Valente Copy Share Image
Wyatt Earp and the Holy Grail: The Tale of the Three Gates is a look at humankind's relationship to the elements which… — Evan Jacobs Copy Share Image
The future of narrative? Built in, part of the human template. Not going away. The future of the codex book, with pages… — Margaret Atwood Copy Share Image
“I was someone hungry for stories; more specifically, I was someone who craved after facts...I was, you see, at the start of… — Arlene J. Chai Copy Share Image
As a generalization, fantasy writing has leaned more on political storytelling the more it's tried to escape the inevitable influence of Middle-earth,… — Ross Douthat Copy Share Image
“A story must be judged according to whether it makes sense . And 'making sense' must be here understood in its most… — David Abram Copy Share Image
“Martin, fables are possibly one of the most interesting literary forms ever invented. Do you know what they teach us? Moral lessons?… — Carlos Ruiz Zafon Copy Share Image
Many fantasy novels - 'Lord of the Rings', for instance, or 'Lavondyss' by Robert Holdstock - are beautifully written. Geoff Ryman's 'The… — David Gemmell Copy Share Image
What we men share is the experience of having been raised by women in a culture that stopped our fathers from being… — Frank Pittman Copy Share Image
Christian nation mythologists pump themselves up with narratives of American exceptionalism and Christian domination. But sooner or later even their most devoted… — Sarah Posner Copy Share Image
Children, only animals live entirely in the Here and Now. Only nature knows neither memory nor history. But man - let me… — Graham Swift Copy Share Image
“The heroic quest typically highlights a seemingly average person (think Thomas Anderson before he becomes Neo) who embarks on a perilous undertaking,… — Sol Luckman Copy Share Image
“That's all any of these myths have been trying to do. To take a huge, terrifying phenomenon, something you can only stare… — Cory O'Brien Copy Share Image
“It is a law of the story-teller's art that he does not tell a story. It is the listener who tells it.… — Melville Davisson Post Copy Share Image
I grew up in a society with a very ancient and strong oral storytelling tradition. I was told stories, as a child,… — Khaled Hosseini Copy Share Image
“People are hardwired to listen to stories. Stories are the way human knowledge was passed down before the written word. Storytelling is… — Akash Karia Copy Share Image
I've always said there are four words that every child in the world knows, and those are, "Tell me a story,." Even… — Don Hewitt Copy Share Image
“Writers use narratives to select from everything there is, and make contexts by putting the pieces into relation; that’s what writers do,… — Paul Shepheard Copy Share Image
“It aspires to being a modernized fairy tale, in which the wonderment and joy are retained and the heartaches and nightmares are… — L. Frank Baum Copy Share Image
The history of storytelling isn't one of simply entertaining the masses but of also advising, instructing, challenging the status quo. — Therese Fowler Copy Share Image
“The telling and hearing of stories is a bonding ritual that breaks through illusions of separateness and activates a deep sense of… — Annette Simmons Copy Share Image
We have always put the quest for balance at the center of our storytelling, whether it is the struggle to find it… — Bryan Konietzko Copy Share Image
I don't assume, because I can write screenplays, that I know how to write a novel. It's a very different world. There's… — Melissa Rosenberg Copy Share Image
Novelists have to be adept at controlling the flow of information, and, most crucially, they have to be in charge of the… — Ian Mcewan Copy Share Image
“This was not a fairy tale. This was not the movies. This was life. It hurt more. It was excruciating. It was… — Francesca Lia Block Copy Share Image
“story was being broadcast over the British radio, and those with hidden transistors were finally learning the tale in tantalizingly vague bits… — Tilar J. Mazzeo Copy Share Image
The Tories claim that they have changed. Their stance on foxhunting makes it absolutely clear that they haven't. They know the public… — Hilary Benn Copy Share Image
Fairy tales are not real. However, myths are the historical notes of those who were much wiser than ourselves. We therefore have… — C. JoyBell C Copy Share Image
“Your narrative may fail to grip if you haven't taken any care to find out how well or badly your audience member… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
“but the fact is that New York is as much a myth as a place, and because we all participate in that… — Siri Hustvedt Copy Share Image
One of my ambitions has been to go back to what those great authors were doing then ... to bridge that sensibility… — Carlos Ruiz Zafon Copy Share Image
When I pick up the guitar, it's a melody, and that's what drives the lyrics. It's bits and pieces of truth, but… — Ray LaMontagne Copy Share Image
Before I came along, my field was dominated by myth, superstition, deceit, and outright fraud. I overcame it by the simple application… — Arthur Jones Copy Share Image
Everything feels so personal when you're an actor because you're so open and vulnerable, and you have to trust your director to… — Miriam Shor Copy Share Image
I always felt and still feel that fairy tales have an emotional truth that is so deep that there are few things… — Alice Hoffman Copy Share Image
“Good storytelling lets the audience relive events in the present so they can understand the forces, choices, and emotions that led the… — John Truby Copy Share Image
“the whole story was in fact a legend, that is, the burial and discovery of an empty tomb were tales that later… — Bart D. Ehrman Copy Share Image
