“Storytelling is an ancient art. The lucent vibes of stories express what we cannot articulate directly. When we hear someone’s story, we… — Kilroy J. Oldster Copy Share Image
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“Finally, I’d say to anyone who wants to tell these tales, don’t be afraid to be superstitious. If you have a lucky… — Philip Pullman Copy Share Image
“There was a girl, and her uncle sold her, wrote Mr. Ibis in his perfect copperplate handwriting. That is the tale; the… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
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We brainstorm an idea and then we do flesh it out a little bit - we come up with a script, mostly… — Carrie Brownstein Copy Share Image
“The question is, how do I balance narratives that are wonderful with narratives of wounds and self-loathing? And this is the difficulty… — Chris Abani Copy Share Image
Melissa Barak, an ex-City Ballet dancer and sometime choreographer, has put together an unspeakably dopey and incompetent mess called 'Call Me Ben,'… — Robert Gottlieb Copy Share Image
As an editor, I read Charlotte Rogan's amazing debut novel, 'The Lifeboat,' when it was still in manuscript. I read it in… — Karen Thompson Walker Copy Share Image
“Take the Gospel parables: what are these stories, these narratives, if not powerful invitations to people to locate themselves within the situations… — Andrew Davison Copy Share Image
“Those places where sadness and misery abound are favoured settings for stories of ghosts and apparitions. Calcutta has countless such stories hidden… — Carlos Ruiz Zafón Copy Share Image
“That is the true crime that fairy tales commit - making people like me think that we counted in this world. I… — John Goode Copy Share Image
“It’s not by story alone that successful advocates urge others to take action. Advocating with our personal stories takes a specific kind… — John Capecci and Timothy Cage Copy Share Image
“A person writes similar to how a blind person uses brail. We grope along the palpable corridors of the mind’s organic texture… — Kilroy J. Oldster Copy Share Image
We live in a time when the values of courage and honesty, particularly for women writers, equate to confessing only the darkest,… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“It was a tale well known to children all over Africa: Abu Kassem, a miserly Baghdad merchant, had held on to his… — Abraham Verghese Copy Share Image
I don't think 'Call Of Duty: Black Ops' sells 25 million plus copies and makes of a billion dollars because of their… — Nolan North Copy Share Image
“In myths, the hero survives. The evil is vanquished. The world is set right. Sometimes there are celebrations, and sometimes there are… — V.E. Schwab Copy Share Image
“Most of all I told this story because I wanted to say something about hope and the absence of it, and how… — Gail Caldwell Copy Share Image
I have decided to tell the story of my life as best I can, so that my children can separate the truth… — Marlon Brando Copy Share Image
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“...a novel, like a myth or any great work of art, can become an initiation that helps us to make a painful… — Karen Armstrong Copy Share Image
We can tell people abstract rules of thumb which we have derived from prior experiences, but it is very difficult for other… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I always loved silent movies. I was not a specialist, but I loved them. And when I started directing, I became really… — Michel Hazanavicius Copy Share Image
“As a fantasist, I well understand the power of escapism, particularly as relates to romance. But when so many stories aimed at… — Foz Meadows Copy Share Image
“The media landscape of the present day is a map in search of a territory. A huge volume of sensational and often… — J.G. Ballard Copy Share Image
“When I come home and look back through my Book of Books I see a personal narrative I didn’t recognize at the… — Pamela Paul Copy Share Image
Chad Michael Ward is a master of the storytelling craft. His imagery, both still and moving, reaches deep into the darkest corners… — Dave Navarro Copy Share Image
“The whole tradition of [oral] story telling is endangered by modern technology. Although telling stories is a very fundamental human attribute, to… — Sara Maitland Copy Share Image
I never even considered writing a career option. I just liked the play of words. I was certainly interested in story, but… — Charles de Lint Copy Share Image
For myself, the only way I know how to make a book is to construct it like a collage: a bit of… — Hilary Mantel Copy Share Image
Reading is like breathing in and writing is like breathing out, and storytelling is what links both: it is the soul of… — Pam Allyn Copy Share Image
“As has already been noted, fantastic literature developed at precisely the moment when genuine belief in the supernatural was on the wane,… — Franz Rottensteiner Copy Share Image
“The joy in telling a story is in the magic of spinning the tale, not in the number of exaggerations you can… — Sarah McCarty Copy Share Image
All myth is an enriched pattern, a two-faced proposition, allowing its operator to say one thing and mean another, to lead a… — Anne Carson Copy Share Image
I think that storytelling and creation are very close to what the center of what magic is about. I think not just… — Alan Moore Copy Share Image
“Sylvia Day spins a gorgeous adventure in A Touch of Crimson that combines gritty, exciting storytelling with soaring lyricism. Adrian is my… — Angela Knight Copy Share Image
“What I'm going to do up here, kid, is tell you a story. Like all stories, it's an attempt to make sense… — Robert Jackson Bennett Copy Share Image
The incomparable James Walvin has done it again: he has crafted a beautifully written and deeply informed single volume history of the… — David W. Blight Copy Share Image
We're an industry obsessed with the storytelling side of things, the content. And then we got obsessed with the canvas. Is it… — David Droga Copy Share Image
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