I am familiar with the Odiyan legend, as my mother used to tell me that her grandmother would narrate the Odiyan tales… — M. Jayachandran Copy Share Image
If you want to make your children brilliant, tell them fairy tales. If you want to make them more brilliant, tell them… — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
I'm trying to make perfect moments. And those generate meaning. If you go deep enough in how to make a moment, very… — Ira Glass Copy Share Image
To be simple, I would say a story has to have a bit of narrative, if only "she says," and then enough… — Lydia Davis Copy Share Image
“Charlie,” she said as she leaned on her desk just before me. “Most mothers read fairy tale stories to their children –… — Jamie Magee Copy Share Image
No matter how carefully records are kept and filed and computerized, they grow fuzzy with time. Stories grow by accretion. Tales accumulate--like… — Isaac Asimov Copy Share Image
Definitely they write themselves. It's an amazing experience. It's like the characters have come alive and are sitting on my shoulder talking… — R. A. Salvatore Copy Share Image
“...all I knew were novels. It gave me pause, for a moment, that all my reference points were fiction, that all my… — Rebecca Makkai Copy Share Image
Myths are public dreams, dreams are private myths. We must be willing to get rid of the life we planned, so as… — Joseph Campbell Copy Share Image
For narrative games, and also for the sake of the medium, we have to treat performance that way, as actors. You have… — Ashly Burch Copy Share Image
By definition it uses and plays and delights in time. It delights in the interlacing of chronologies and the consequences of that… — Chang-Rae Lee Copy Share Image
“New Age spirituality purports to promote change – its mantra is ‘transformation’ – but, in reality, it endorses the status quo. It… — Helen Morales Copy Share Image
“Joey was lying by the stream one afternoon after a hard day. He had been in trouble at school because he had… — Ellen J. Lewinberg Copy Share Image
In what bold relief stand out the lives of all walkers of the snow! The snow is a great tell-tale, and blabs… — John Burroughs Copy Share Image
“Woolrich had a genius for creating types of story perfectly consonant with his world: the noir cop story, the clock race story,… — Francis M. Nevins Copy Share Image
In the spring or warmer weather when the snow thaws in the woods the tracks of winter reappear on slender pedestals and… — Cormac McCarthy Copy Share Image
The novel form is about the protagonist's struggle to transform his arbitrary, fragmented, given experience into a narrative as meaningful as his… — Elif Batuman Copy Share Image
“It took some time to realize just how important it is to love your own story. Even if it's not some perfectly… — B.L. Berry Copy Share Image
Gareth [Edwards] was very open to just shaping the performances and the scenes to fit what was happening with the actors and… — Alan Tudyk Copy Share Image
'Game of Thrones' is the broadest of narratives. I don't know if anyone in the U.S. has done a story on such… — Alex Graves Copy Share Image
I'm a visual filmmaker so the camera is a big part of my storytelling tool and it's something that I really rely… — James Wan Copy Share Image
I really do think of it in moral terms. I think that we can't kid ourselves that the storytelling impulse is innocent… — Lynn Coady Copy Share Image
“Memory is not a storage place but a story we tell ourselves in retrospect. As such, it is made of storytelling materials:… — Noam Shpancer Copy Share Image
For little boys are rancorous When robbed of any myth, And spiteful and cantankerous To all their kin and kith. But little… — Phyllis McGinley Copy Share Image
A 90-minute time frame is not long enough to tell a good female story, and that's why long-format television has become so… — Frances McDormand Copy Share Image
The technology can change, but storytelling remains the same. It's just a digital world now instead of an analog world, but now… — David Lynch Copy Share Image
Myths are, in fact...neither primitive nor untrue. They are, rather, a kind of poetry that helps us make sense of the world… — Stephen H. Furrer Copy Share Image
I really enjoy blocking and staging. I think most of visual storytelling is camera placement and how to stage action around the… — Hiro Murai Copy Share Image
Every bit as visceral and hypnotic as its award-winning predecessor, On the Ropes is a tour-de-force of fluid, yet detailed storytelling. — Dave Gibbons Copy Share Image
Think for a minute, darling: in fairy tales it's always the children who have the fine adventures. The mothers have to stay… — Audrey Niffenegger Copy Share Image
To try to write a grand cosmical drama leads necessarily to myth. To try to let knowledge substitute ignorance in increasingly larger… — Hannes Alfven Copy Share Image
“If you don't have a narrative, just make one up. You can always change it when you have more clarity. Any narrative… — L. R. W. Lee Copy Share Image
In the best of all possible worlds, directors would obsess about the quality of their storytelling, and not the details of their… — Roger Ebert Copy Share Image
“Recalls The Treasure of the Sierra Madre, the better work of Jim Thompson (The Grifters; After Dark, My Sweet) and Thomas Berger’s… — Scott B. Smith Copy Share Image
Truth may be stranger than fiction on a plot and narrative basis, but fiction can investigate tone in a way that things… — Ray McKinnon Copy Share Image
Im not really devoted or specified towards any specific genre at all. I really like it all. Theres good storytelling in all… — Angela Bettis Copy Share Image
I've always had an ear for melodies, and they veer pop. My lyrics are more country - what I love is the… — Maren Morris Copy Share Image
You have a natural tendency to want an emotionally satisfying tale - and to make investments based on that - despite times… — Barry Ritholtz Copy Share Image
Fairy tales are about money, marriage, and men. They are the maps and manuals that are passed down from mothers and grandmothers… — Marina Warner Copy Share Image
The bedrock thing of country music is, it's about storytelling. I feel like I was able to find a niche because I… — Mary Chapin Carpenter Copy Share Image
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