We don't experience our lives as plots. If I asked you to tell me what your last week was like, you're not… — Teju Cole Copy Share Image
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Don't ever let the other stuff get in the way of your inherent skills as a kick-butt storyteller. Move the reader, make… — James Dashner Copy Share Image
I consider music to be storytelling, melody and rhythm. A lot of hip-hop has broken music down. There are no instruments and… — Jack White Copy Share Image
There's a big confusion in this country over what we want versus what we need," Morrie said. "You need food, you want… — Mitch Albom Copy Share Image
I was born in the era of the novel. I've written many, as well as collections of poetry, and essays for mouthing… — Julianna Baggott Copy Share Image
“For anyone who wants to understand the art of storytelling, this film [The Hunt for Red October] should suffice; one wonders why… — Muriel Barbery Copy Share Image
If you do really good storytelling, things that people also might anticipate and that they might have seen before - there's a… — Kimberly Peirce Copy Share Image
“Picture to yourself the most beautiful girl imaginable! She was so beautiful that there would be no point, in view of my… — Walter Moers Copy Share Image
“Well, did anything interesting happen today?' [my father] would begin. And even before the daily question was completed I had eagerly launched… — Doris Kearns Goodwin Copy Share Image
“Beauty in life and fiction is a mixture of Fairy Tale and Tragedy. Men see a pretty face and want to claim… — Lori Jones Copy Share Image
You start with a generic body, but I think the first wall you hit with portraiture is comprised of history and storytelling… — Kiki Smith Copy Share Image
“She adored fairy tales, yet derived great reward rewriting them to the melody of her own warrior soul. Her fairytales weren’t made… — Melody Lee Copy Share Image
“To many, I was myth incarnate, the embodiment of a most superb legend, a fairy tale. Some considered me a monster, a… — Leslye Walton Copy Share Image
The Tories must stop focusing on their ideological obsession with a hard Brexit and their internal party divisions and start focusing on… — Barry Gardiner Copy Share Image
“And below, the notebook filled with fine cursive script, laying out in strict order conclusion and delusion, mingling myth and science, drawing… — Diana Gabaldon Copy Share Image
Real life is a story, too, only much more complicated. It’s still got a beginning, a middle, and an end. Everyone follows… — Chris Wooding Copy Share Image
I write at eighty-five for the same reasons that impelled me to write at forty-five; I was born with a passionate desire… — James A. Michener Copy Share Image
“Theme is not imposed on the story but evoke from within it--initally an intuitive but finally an intellectual act on the part… — John Gardner Copy Share Image
The story of the memoir is a story of me creating certain narratives so that I could live with my own experience… — Melissa Febos Copy Share Image
Because having your story told as a woman, as a person of color, as a lesbian, as a trans person, or as… — Kerry Washington Copy Share Image
Storytelling is very important. It is through context and relations that we understand the importance of human dignity. The concept means nothing… — Payam Akhavan Copy Share Image
“There is no one story that will replace the American dream, but stories like this one—and there are thousands—can inform the myth… — Carolyn Baker Copy Share Image
“Narrative history fell out of fashion for many years in the 1970s and 1980s, as historians everywhere focused on analytical approaches derived… — Richard J. Evans Copy Share Image
Theatre, when it is at its best, takes a lot of beating - the live experience and the shared collective experience of… — Dan Stevens Copy Share Image
“The Snow Leopard’s Tale is a mystical pilgrimage into that wild country where animal passion and the human heart begin to walk… — Ted Kerasote Copy Share Image
“Art is a captured emotion. When I say this I mean all artists, whether you are a photographer, a writer, or sculptor,… — Tommy Tran Copy Share Image
The task is not primarily to have a story, but to penetrate the story, to discard the elements of it that are… — Deborah Eisenberg Copy Share Image
Audiences are less intrigued, honestly, by battle. They're more intrigued by human relations. If you're making a film about the trappings of… — Ridley Scott Copy Share Image
The requirements for illustrating an eight-page story are as different from that of an ensemble-cast mini-series as they are different from a… — Stuart Immonen Copy Share Image
I think we need to be put back in touch with our childhood...to be reminded of what's important, like memories about people… — Kathryn Tucker Windham Copy Share Image
I fell in love with Dungeons & Dragons, and the storytelling of it, and the weird dice, and the fact that it… — Wil Wheaton Copy Share Image
Certainly the goal with any sort of storytelling is to have an impact, to touch on some reader's life. And in some… — Tom Brevoort Copy Share Image
I was lucky enough to see the original cast of 'In the Heights.' This one blew my mind. The infusion of Latin,… — Josh Young Copy Share Image
“I live in gratitude to my parents for initiating me--and as early as I begged for it, without keeping me waiting--into knowledge… — Eudora Welty Copy Share Image
“Ultimately, the definition of both the wonder tale and the fairy tale, which derives from it, depends on the manner in which… — Jack Zipes Copy Share Image
“If a tale we're reading or watching on screen is too familiar, it becomes boring; we know the end from the beginning… — Orson Scott Card Copy Share Image
The genre of narrative business books that I love so much - the ones that have a you-are-there quality - was invented,… — Andrew Ross Sorkin Copy Share Image
“How many times have I gone back to the border of memory and peered into the darkness beyond? But it is not… — Diane Setterfield Copy Share Image
“I believed in the existence of other and more vivid kinds of goodness, and what I believed in I wished to behold.… — Charlotte Brontë Copy Share Image
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