You can take the high moral ground intellectually, but if it ever happens to you personally, I don't know that I could… — Richard LaGravenese Copy Share Image
Fairy tales were not my escape from reality as a child; rather, they were my reality -- for mine was a world… — Terri Windling Copy Share Image
“Trial Is Part of the Journey For a moment, think back about your favorite fairy tale. In that story the main character… — Dieter F. Uchtdorf Copy Share Image
While I generally find that great myths are great precisely because they represent and embody great universal truths, the myth of romantic… — M. Scott Peck Copy Share Image
“Toy is talking and this is why I love her. She can go on about herself ceaselessly and like the scratching of… — Erica Lorraine Scheidt Copy Share Image
“These stories were very old, as old as people, and they had survived because they were very powerful indeed. They were the… — John Connolly Copy Share Image
I try to keep deep love out of my stories because, once that particular subject comes up, it is almost impossible to… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
Storytelling is a universal: every culture does it. There's a reason our religious books aren't simply a list of shall-and-shall-nots. Morals and… — Kameron Hurley Copy Share Image
“Your gift with storytelling, Evie? It's not about you getting lost in your own mind, or living in a dreamland. It's about… — Mia Sheridan Copy Share Image
I wanted to avoid what some modern tellers have done, quite legitimately, to make fairy tales more like novels and short stories,… — Philip Pullman Copy Share Image
“Many of the best fantastic stories begin in a leisurely way, set in commonplace surroundings, with exact, meticulous descriptions of an ordinary… — Franz Rottensteiner Copy Share Image
There's a social and human necessity for some kind of continuity, but it's not axiomatic and not something you're born into; it's… — Aleksandar Hemon Copy Share Image
When a character has as wide an audience and as rich a history as Batman, it's truly exciting to see him introduced… — Jim Lee Copy Share Image
Humanity's legacy of stories and storytelling is the most precious we have. All wisdom is in our stories and songs. A story… — Doris Lessing Copy Share Image
“I’ve never believed in fairy tales. One day, the fairies will tell this story. There will be a valiant prince, a part… — T.T. Escurel Copy Share Image
For who can wonder that man should feel a vague belief in tales of disembodied spirits wandering through those places which they… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
“Every morning brings us news of the globe, and yet we are poor in noteworthy stories. This is because no event comes… — Walter Benjamin Copy Share Image
A good story is alive, ever changing and growing as it meets each listener or reader in a spirited and unique encounter,… — Katherine Paterson Copy Share Image
This is the mythosphere. It's made up of all the stories, theories and beliefs, legends, myths and hopes, that are generated here… — Diana Wynne Jones Copy Share Image
“If you lose your ego, you lose the thread of that narrative you call your Self. Humans, however, can't live very long… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
I've been training like crazy with my trainer Decker Davis all the time, and we've been doing this new thing called Danger… — Russell Wilson Copy Share Image
I like owning my own narrative. It depends: I either give it all up, or I don't have any control. It's really… — Selah Louise Marley Copy Share Image
“In their purest form myths, not unlike tragedy, are perhaps the most important moment in the troubled history of Mexican civilization. The… — Jean-Marie Gustave Le Clézio Copy Share Image
“Scripture trains us to listen to and learn from stories of all kinds, inside the sacred text and outside, and to discern… — N.T. Wright Copy Share Image
By nature, a storyteller is a plagiarist. Everything one comes across--each incident, book, novel, life episode, story, person, news clip--is a coffee… — Rabih Alameddine Copy Share Image
“Sadly, many storytellers and artists are still addicted to the old delusions (happy is boring, evil is interesting) about the risks of… — Rob Brezsny Copy Share Image
What’s really important is storytelling. None of it matters if it doesn’t support the story. I thought The Avengers was an appalling… — Wally Pfister Copy Share Image
“You've got to make an effort to get the details right, because even through someone picks it up and knows it's a… — Sara Sheridan Copy Share Image
“Although the telling of our story is a learning tool, we must use caution lest we are swept away in the compulsive… — Kim Lincoln Copy Share Image
“Like any collection of family photographs, it was a random selection that told only fragments of a story. The real tale would… — Victoria Hislop Copy Share Image
It is not without fear and trembling that a historian of religion approaches the problem of myth. This is not only because… — Mircea Eliade Copy Share Image
You grow up loving movies, and your first instinct is you want to be an actor, because those are the people you… — Emily Meade Copy Share Image
When I was a kid, my grandparents were Greek immigrants on my father's side. My grandfather used to read me Greek myths,… — Laeta Kalogridis Copy Share Image
The challenge in any kind of storytelling, as far as I know, it is, you're looking for the moment that is completely… — Timothy Olyphant Copy Share Image
Animation can be a full spectrum of different storytelling techniques and different genres. I think it's sad that there is only one… — Bill Plympton Copy Share Image
I've been watching more American TV because of all the great TV series that have come out in the last five to… — Jo Nesbo Copy Share Image
Stories are thick with meanings. You can fall in love with a story for what you think it says, but you can't… — Susan Fletcher Copy Share Image
Fairy tales are loved by the child not because the imagery he finds in them conforms to what goes on within him,… — Bruno Bettelheim Copy Share Image
Writing a story starts out as a puzzle in your mind, of "What is it I'm fantasizing about right now that makes… — Andrew Bujalski Copy Share Image
Fairy tales have always been about getting through the worst of everything, the darkest and the deepest and the bloodiest of events.… — Catherynne M. Valente Copy Share Image
