“By the time these stories were written, six decades had passed since the crucifixion. In that time, the evangelists had heard just… — Reza Aslan Copy Share Image
The three touchstones that woke Buddha up - sickness, old age, and death - are a pretty good place to start when… — Paul Di Filippo Copy Share Image
You go to a theater, you're in a darkened room, and you watch someone that you don't really know how many children… — Adrien Brody Copy Share Image
Writing a story requires you to understand how the world works, how characters think, how their emotions drive them to do surprising… — David Farland Copy Share Image
“It is true that the original of this story is put into new words, and the style of the famous lady we… — Daniel Defoe Copy Share Image
“In one Native American folk tale, a grandfather explains to his grandson that he has two wolves inside him. One wolf fills… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“When you enter the woods of a fairy tale and it is night, the trees tower on either side of the path.… — Elizabeth J. Andrew Copy Share Image
“Given the obstacles to merging these fragile and diverse forms of storytelling into a single tale, it is, paradoxically, by venturing in… — Karl Jacoby Copy Share Image
Narrative Collapse is what happens when we no longer have time in which to tell a story. Remote controls and DVRs give… — Douglas Rushkoff Copy Share Image
“At the heart of his paper was the notion that fairy tales relieved us of our need for order and allowed us… — Alice Hoffman Copy Share Image
“Outbreaks of unvarnished truths in the backyard of our true self can be very precious and inspiring, even though we might inconsistently… — Erik Pevernagie Copy Share Image
I love storytelling and I love just relating directly to an audience. That's why we do theatre, it's because we love contact… — Simon Callow Copy Share Image
“All she captures is a moment and what she calls it is a memory, Sometimes, it is assumptions that we use; all… — Nishikant Copy Share Image
“a gang of unpredictable ruffians by day who turned to enthralling storytellers after dark. "I would sometimes join them, and listen for… — Russell S. Bonds Copy Share Image
But I do think that, when you slow the conveyor belt down, the quality control tends to go up. You have a… — Damon Lindelof Copy Share Image
Well, we look for sources of inspiration in pop culture in general. It's very important for us that, when it comes to… — Sam Lake Copy Share Image
I was a Teletype operator in the army, so that's where I learned to type. One day, I went downstairs to see… — Carl Reiner Copy Share Image
There's a classic medical aphorism: 'Listen to the patient; they're telling you the diagnosis.' Actually, a lot of patients are just telling… — Jed Mercurio Copy Share Image
There are a million ideas in a world of stories. Humans are storytelling animals. Everything's a story, everyone's got stories, we're perceiving… — Richard Linklater Copy Share Image
“The pleasures of being a novelist are many. But the greatest by far is the manner in which I live through my… — Richelle E. Goodrich Copy Share Image
As if channeling Robbe-Grillet, who strove to establish 'new relations between man and the world,' Sesshu Foster's electrifying prose poems tenderly examine… — Wanda Coleman Copy Share Image
They're [zombies] us, you can also have the wrestler zombie, the clown zombie, the Jay Leno zombie and the nun zombie. I've… — Tom Savini Copy Share Image
“I have noticed that when people tell their own stories, often it has less to do with wanting to communicate an idea… — Lydia Minatoya Copy Share Image
The best memoirs - like This Boy's Life, or Crazy Brave [by Joy Harjo], for instance - bring you through a private… — Lidia Yuknavitch Copy Share Image
“there is a growing body of work coming out of psychology and cognitive science that says you have no clue why you… — David McRaney Copy Share Image
Even though I read voraciously as a child, I never saw myself in books. Without narratives to expand my ideas of who… — Jesmyn Ward Copy Share Image
My English teachers gave me a copy of Atwood's 'The Handmaid's Tale' when I left high school, which has always been very… — Samantha Shannon Copy Share Image
For whatever reason, thus far it's been important to me not to write that kind of collection. Which means that I've spent… — Roy Kesey Copy Share Image
I say 'spectacle' rather than 'story' because in the end, it isn't the intricacies of narrative that draw us to horror films.… — Clive Barker Copy Share Image
“I recalled the afternoon when the two of us stood beating erasers, and Camille confided that she'd done penance for stories -… — Stuart Dybek Copy Share Image
Critics have found in the narrative a veneer of erudition that cloaks nothing more than a James Bond-style romp, albeit a highly… — Dan Brown Copy Share Image
Transmedia storytelling represents a process where integral elements of a fiction get dispersed systematically across multiple delivery channels for the purpose of… — Henry Jenkins Copy Share Image
“Above all, readers want useful information, whether from a road sign or an investment guide. This motive is not completely absent even… — Alice W. Flaherty Copy Share Image
“The tales of pure terror, of course, are completely naturalistic in their content, and must stand or fall by their merit alone.… — Herbert A. Wise Copy Share Image
“Their story was nothing like a romantic movie despite the epic crowd scene. Theirs was a tale of clumsy beginnings, quick getaways,… — Tracy Ewens Copy Share Image
The continuous narrative of existence is a lie. There is no continuous narrative, there are lit-up moments, and the rest is dark.… — Jeanette Winterson Copy Share Image
“There are tales that rise like the early sun, breathe, and take on a life of their own. There are ones that… — Edwin Fontanez Copy Share Image
“The Bible is the saga of Yahweh and Adam, the prodigal son and his ever gracious heavenly father; humanity in their rebellion… — Sandra L. Richter Copy Share Image
“ 'A fine story', said Asterinov … 'Six months in prison, that tale,' said Sergei. 'Was it the witch?', I asked 'I… — Adam Roberts Copy Share Image
“I did not make myself the heroine of my tales. Life appeared to me too common-place an affair as regarded myself. I… — Mary Shelley Copy Share Image
![“They're [zombies] us, you can also have the wrestler zombie, the clown zombie, the Jay Leno zombie and the nun zombie. I've never seen the clown werewolf or vampire. But because zombies are us, at the lowest possible level, they're a lot more versatile for storytelling.” quote by Tom Savini](https://sms4smile.com/q/img-quotes/485/tom-savini-42011_clown_they-re-zombies-us-you-can-also-have-the_3090520.jpg)
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