I think acting came later in life when I went to college. I started out there. I wasn't a big star in… — Rachel Weisz Copy Share Image
“And when all was done and all was said, we sat silently staring at the moon's reflection on the rippling river, soaking… — Alys Arden Copy Share Image
I insist that through specificity, honesty, and diversity, who gets to hold the storytelling stick, you can have really universal stories that… — Greta Lee Copy Share Image
Reading Tomato Red-the first Daniel Woodrell novel I came upon-was a transformative experience. It expanded my sense of the possibilities not only… — Megan Abbott Copy Share Image
“I spoke of the tragic illusion of perpetuity, but, no, my friends, it is a comic one. The ludicrous plot in which… — Robert Coover Copy Share Image
“All our language is composed of brief little dreams; and the wonderful thing is that we sometimes make of them strangely accurate… — Paul Valéry Copy Share Image
Once I thought fairy tales were lies or worse promises spoken yet meant to be broken intent is all. Why do grown… — Justice Fitzgerald Copy Share Image
There various news I heard of love and strife,Of peace and war, health, sickness, death, and life,Of loss and gain, of famine… — Alexander Pope Copy Share Image
“Just as we all like love tales because there is an instinct of sex, we all like astonishing tales because they touch… — G.K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
Operating-room errors hold a special terror for patients, if only because they seem like the most avoidable kind of complications. The occasional… — Jeffrey Kluger Copy Share Image
This variety of objects will suspend, for some time, the course of the narrative; but the interruption will be censured only by… — Edward Gibbon Copy Share Image
“There's a Palestine that dwells inside all of us, a Palestine that needs to be rescued: a free Palestine where all people… — Refaat Alareer Copy Share Image
My real purpose in telling middle-school students stories was to practice telling stories. And I practiced on the greatest model of storytelling… — Philip Pullman Copy Share Image
As a reporter, you know the tropes of how stories on poverty work in any country. A reporter will go to an… — Katherine Boo Copy Share Image
That's what we do, man, we're like storytellers. We tell you stories from the streets. Whether we did it before when we… — Kurupt Copy Share Image
“Each of us lives with a sword over his head. There are those who can ignore its shadow and those who cannot.… — Murray Kempton Copy Share Image
“I love the way folktale and fantasy tap into the roots of story telling. The paradox, for me, is that by moving… — Guy Gavriel Kay Copy Share Image
The fairy tale that really scared me was Bluebeard. That's the one where he just kills one after another of these woman,… — Meryl Streep Copy Share Image
The myth holds us, therefore, not through its romantic flavor, not the remembrance of beauty of some bygone age, not through the… — Mark Rothko Copy Share Image
A need to tell and hear stories is essential to the species Homo sapiens-second in necessity apparently after nourishment and before love… — Reynolds Price Copy Share Image
It is a skill we learn early, the art of inventing stories to explain away the fearful scared strangeness of the world.… — William Kittredge Copy Share Image
I've always loved theatre because it's so immediate. The challenge of it is that, career wise, it's easier to get traction in… — Steven C. Harper Copy Share Image
The thing that's really cool for me about Miami Beach is you have this dichotomy between sunlight and family and happiness and… — Mitch Glazer Copy Share Image
When we make films - even 2D films - you're always trying to create this illusion of 3D, anyway. You're trying to… — Rob Minkoff Copy Share Image
“The stories in books hate the stories in newspapers, David's mother would say. Newspaper stories were like newly caught fish, worthy of… — John Connolly Copy Share Image
Digression is my passion. I'm not kidding. I love telling the main stories, but in some ways, what I love most is… — Erik Larson Copy Share Image
We all have incredible relationships to what we eat, to what we don't eat, to what we've eaten since childhood and what… — Samin Nosrat Copy Share Image
I’ve always believed that as an author, I do 50% of the work of storytelling, and the reader does the other 50%.… — Shannon Hale Copy Share Image
“In the end nothing matters but the work. You can’t control how it’s taken, and the act of telling a story always… — Patrick Somerville Copy Share Image
What do you know about yourself? What are your stories? The ones you tell yourself, and the ones told by others. All… — Cameron Dokey Copy Share Image
“The story of Eve and the serpent, and of Noah and his ark, drops to a level with the Arabian Tales, without… — Thomas Paine Copy Share Image
“...re-writing the narratives that define us, making new meanings and imagining different endings. ... As our earliest caregivers transcribed our sensations, feelings… — Philippa Perry Copy Share Image
I'm not a fan of endless mystery in storytelling - I like to know where the mythology's going; I like to get… — Eric Kripke Copy Share Image
I think the actor has a tribal role as the archetypal story teller. I think there was a time when the storyteller,… — Ben Kingsley Copy Share Image
The biggest difference for me is that the tales really have no logical outlet, no particular infrastructure in which to present them… — Larry Fessenden Copy Share Image
“So they went out for a walk. They went through narrow, lightless lanes, where houses that were silent but gave out smells… — Amit Chaudhuri Copy Share Image
I'm not a fan of Dr. Seuss's better-known work, but his fables leave me awe-struck. 'Ten Tall Tales' is a collection of… — Giles Andreae Copy Share Image
When you tell a story, there are imperatives of structure, of style, of pacing and all of this, that are there simply… — H. W. Brands Copy Share Image
“I had a mother who read to me Sagas of pirates who scoured the sea. Cutlasses clenched in their yellow teeth; "Blackbirds"… — Strickland Gillilan Copy Share Image
“Storytelling, you know, has a real function. The process of the storytelling is itself a healing process, partly because you have someone… — Alice Walker Copy Share Image
