Storytelling is how history is passed. It's what our ancestors did, it's what everybody's done. It has to come back into a… — Nikki Giovanni Copy Share Image
I decided to make myself a little less precious with my storytelling. I think you can see from the first three pieces… — Lucy Corin Copy Share Image
“What are the tales?" Adrienne asked wryly. "His exploits are legendary!" "His conquests are legion. 'Tis rumored he's traveled the world accompanied… — Karen Marie Moning Copy Share Image
“It’s probably long overdue for us to throw out what we think we know about love. Girls have grown up with too… — Stephanee Killen Copy Share Image
“A circular plot structure, often seen in adventure novels and quest fantasies, is a narrative devise involving setting, character, and theme. Typically… — Carl M. Tomlinson Copy Share Image
You get a lot of narrative energy from people who make really big mistakes, who act against their best interests, who do… — Kelly Link Copy Share Image
The way you write dialogue is the same whether you're writing for movies or TV or games. We use movie scriptwriting software… — Sam Lake Copy Share Image
Now the story of Christ is simply a true myth: a myth working on us the same way as the others, but… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
David Foster Wallace was a brilliant experimentalist who I deeply admire. His ability to do formalism helped me understand how to tackle… — Alexander Weinstein Copy Share Image
The great enemy of truth is very often not the lie--deliberate, contrived and dishonest--but the myth--persistent, persuasive and unrealistic. Too often we… — John F. Kennedy Copy Share Image
I like a narrative, even if it's fractured, or kind of psychedelic. But my favorite thing is if I hear words and… — Stephen Malkmus Copy Share Image
When people get up on the stage and say, "I've got AIDS," or "I'm in recovery," gosh, it's hard for them. It's… — Cecil Williams Copy Share Image
“And that’s how it is in this world, boy. Start a tale, just a little tale that should fade and die—take your… — Mark Lawrence Copy Share Image
“Oh, you mean like Orpheo rescuing Euniphon from the Underworld?” said Roland. Rob Anybody just stared. “It’s a myth from Ephebe,” Roland… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
The aspect of the venerable mansion has always affected me like a human countenance, bearing the traces not merely of outward storm… — Nathaniel Hawthorne Copy Share Image
“fiction has enabled us not merely to imagine things, but to do so collectively. We can weave common myths such as the… — Yuval Noah Harari Copy Share Image
But whether we want to do it because we want to have people to have a different idea of who we are… — Antonio Damasio Copy Share Image
“Over the last three centuries our historical reception of folk and fairy tales has been so negatively twisted by aesthetic norms, educational… — Jack Zipes Copy Share Image
All your clear and pleasing sentences will fall apart if you don't keep remembering that writing is linear and sequential, that logic… — William Zinsser Copy Share Image
How often do we stand convinced of the truth of our early memories, forgetting that they are assessments made by a child?… — Benjamin Zander Copy Share Image
Even the pictures I was doing at college - a little narrative based on a butterfly catcher, or a chimney sweep -… — Tim Walker Copy Share Image
“Overnight, our neighbors began to look at us differently. Maybe it was the little girl down the road who no longer waved… — Julie Otsuka Copy Share Image
Writers imagine that they cull stories from the world. I'm beginning to believe that vanity makes them think so. That it's actually… — Arundhati Roy Copy Share Image
“According to folk belief that is reflected in the stories and poems, a being who is petrified man and he can revive.… — Penina Mezei Copy Share Image
“Language allows us to represent autobiographical events in the past, present and future; we can imagine events that have not yet happened,… — Jacqui Stedmon Copy Share Image
“I believe that the great stretches of forests in northern Europe, with their constant seasonal changes, their restricted views, their astonish biological… — Sara Maitland Copy Share Image
“You think fairy tales are only for girls? Here’s a hint—ask yourself who wrote them. I assure you, it wasn’t just the… — David Levithan Copy Share Image
“Storytellers continue their narratives late into the night to forestall death and to delay the inevitable moment when everyone must fall silent.… — Michel Foucault Copy Share Image
A serious adult story must be true to something in life. Since marvel tales cannot be true to the events of life,… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I think change is happening in ways we can't anticipate yet because the whole generation of viewers who are viewing films -… — Simon Kinberg Copy Share Image
“In the Ottoman times, there were itinerant storytellers called "meddah. " They would go to coffee houses, where they would tell a… — Elif Shafak Copy Share Image
Here in the trees it was much easier to believe the absurdities that embarrassed me indoors. Nothing had changed in this forest… — Stephenie Meyer Copy Share Image
When in doubt, the rule of threes is a rule that plays well with all of storytelling. When describing a thing? No… — Chuck Wendig Copy Share Image
“Our house was an old Tudor mansion. My father was very particular in keeping the smallest peculiarities of his home unaltered. Thus… — John Berwick Harwood Copy Share Image
“The faculty for myth is innate in the human race. It seizes with avidity upon any incidents, surprising or mysterious, in the… — W. Somerset Maugham Copy Share Image
“Psychic change, as Todorov has recognized, subverted the genre in another way, by revoking the cultural taboos, the social censorship, that had… — Howard Kerr Copy Share Image
“Feminist narrative theory notes that for most of literary history there's been an imbalance between men's and women's stories. Male characters go… — Laurie Frankel Copy Share Image
Listen, my father had written. Listen to hear if they are telling the truth or only part of the truth, for that… — Kate Elliott Copy Share Image
I used to do more melodic stuff, and I used to do more actual rap - like traditional hip hop vocals. I… — Galcher Lustwerk Copy Share Image
Every age has its storytelling form, and video gaming is a huge part of our culture. You can ignore or embrace video… — Andy Serkis Copy Share Image
