Everyone who's ever met Guillermo Del Toro knows that he's the most generous, creative, mind-bogglingly wonderful man. And I was so lucky… — Selma Blair Copy Share Image
If you are watching a fairy tale, that's why you go to fairy tales: you want these uncomplicated stories and uncomplicated characters.… — Clare-Hope Ashitey Copy Share Image
“Truth for anyone is a very complex thing. For a writer, what you leave out says as much as those things you… — Jeanette Winterson Copy Share Image
It has been said, "History is written by the victors." I take this to mean we can make ourselves victorious by writing,… — Jennifer Beals Copy Share Image
“Anthropological theory assumes that exposure in a treeless situation where all escape upwards was cut off led to the invention of myths.… — W.G. Sebald Copy Share Image
Jennifer Fulwiler's story of finding God when you aren't looking for Him is a universal tale which will touch many hearts. With… — Raymond Arroyo Copy Share Image
It's a risk, but I'm sort of ready to let go of thinking of movies as books that you can watch. The… — Shane Carruth Copy Share Image
“This is the secret of good storytelling: to lie, but to keep the arithmetic sound. A storyteller, like any other sort of… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
We promote Asian storytelling - not just Asian stories but Asian people in stories with the full spectrum of the human experience.… — Ronny Chieng Copy Share Image
That's just how I see things on a base level: there's so much going on. Or at least I like to have… — Jane Campion Copy Share Image
“But there was a catalyst, an event, a moment which changed everything and not just for us. This is good for storytelling… — Laurie Frankel Copy Share Image
I think we're in this exciting moment of Internet streaming storytelling, and it's anybody's guess what that is or what it means.… — Brit Marling Copy Share Image
The Blood of Heroes is surely the best account to date, one that presents plenty of new insights while acting as a… — William C. Davis Copy Share Image
If it's just me on stage telling stories for, like, an hour, that's great. That's fine. But like a sandcastle on the… — Hasan Minhaj Copy Share Image
Moments are incredible, but in my fantasy mind I see a Globe company which is renowned throughout the world for what it… — Mark Rylance Copy Share Image
“I’ve never liked urban myths. I’ve never liked pretending to believe in them; never understood why everyone else doesn’t see straight through… — Mikey Campling Copy Share Image
“(Washington) Irving was only the first of the writers of the American ghostly tale to recognize that the supernatural, exactly because its… — Howard Kerr Copy Share Image
“Someone is pounding on a door within you and hoping for an answer. They want to tell us the secret tale of… — Christopher Hawke Copy Share Image
The simple circumstantial narrative (did such a narrative exist) of the ruin of a single town, of the misfortunes of a single… — Edward Gibbon Copy Share Image
There are recurring elements in popularized fairy tales, such as absent parents, some sort of struggle, a transformation, and a marriage. If… — Kate Bernheimer Copy Share Image
It struck me as I listened to those two men that a truer nomination (name) for our species than Homo sapiens might… — Henning Mankell Copy Share Image
Self-pity, a dominant characteristic of sociopaths, is also the characteristic that differentiates heroic storytelling from psychological rumination. When you talk about your… — Martha Beck Copy Share Image
“The only disadvantage in surviving a dangerous experience lies in the fact that your story of it tends to be anticlimactic. You… — Beryl Markham Copy Share Image
I'm pretty good at fleshing out characters. I like to crawl inside their minds and imaginations and sort of loll about. Sticking… — Gina Ochsner Copy Share Image
“My aunt and my mother read to me when I was three from all the old Grimm fairy tales, Andersen fairy tales,… — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
There are plenty of writers, past and present, from Shakespeare to Henry James to Lydia Davis, who test the limits of coherence… — Joanna Scott Copy Share Image
For me, the best journalism is usually the best storytelling, and the best stories are those of real people. Sometimes those real… — Jason Rezaian Copy Share Image
History is often the tale of small moments—chance encounters or casual decisions or sheer coincidence—that seem of little consequence at the time,… — Scott Anderson Copy Share Image
“Read together, these two completed narratives constitute the saga of an exemplary twentieth-century American unsentimental education, in which the generosity of Billy… — William S. Burroughs Jr Copy Share Image
Nonfiction narratives are really powerful and valid in themselves. But one thing that you don't get sometimes from the more clinical or… — Dave Eggers Copy Share Image
“By telling stories, Jesus isn’t somehow putting sugar in a spoon to make the medicine go down a bit easier. These stories… — Ronnie McBrayer Copy Share Image
The ascendancy over men's minds of the ruins of the stupendous past, the past of history, legend and myth, at once factual… — Rose Macaulay Copy Share Image
Then what shall I write? I can't just write that this happened then this happened then this happened to boring infinitum. I'll… — David Almond Copy Share Image
I don't think there's a way to replace Stabler. The most I could hope for is to come and try and develop… — Danny Pino Copy Share Image
“My early years, my weakling, teething, vaccination, memoirs of the various nursery maids, I dismiss unrecorded: if the Faculty desire a narrative… — Le Comte Du Bouleau [Pseud Attributed Copy Share Image
“In between bites of banana, Mr. Remora would tell stories, and the children would write the stories down in notebooks, and every… — Lemony Snicket Copy Share Image
But if it not be true, the myth itself requires to be explained, and every principle of philosophy and common sense demand… — William Robertson Smith Copy Share Image
In many college English courses the words “myth” and “symbol” are given a tremendous charge of significance. You just ain’t no good… — Ursula K. Le Guin Copy Share Image
There's some ambient music that doesn't do anything. I wouldn't say that that's narrative. It is narrative in that it creates a… — Missy Mazzoli Copy Share Image
I mean, there are some amazing storytelling being done on the small screen right now. That's what so cool about being in… — Ian Somerhalder Copy Share Image
