“As I researched the history of the heroine it became painfully clear to me that women have had little hand in creating… — Kathleen Noble Copy Share Image
Some people's lives seem to flow in a narrative; mine had many stops and starts. That's what trauma does. It interrupts the… — Jessica Stern Copy Share Image
We who with songs beguile your pilgrimage And swear that Beauty lives though lilies die, We Poets of the proud old lineage… — James Elroy Flecker Copy Share Image
Hardships of early human life favored the evolution of certain cognitive tools, among them the ability to infer the presence of organisms… — Robin Marantz Henig Copy Share Image
. . .and every native has a story of winter – stories that usually begin, You call this a storm? And grow… — Richard Paul Evans Copy Share Image
“Good storytelling is one thing rural whites and Indians have in common. But native Americans have learned through harsh necessity that people… — Kathleen Norris Copy Share Image
You can see the diversity that pieces in the anthology represent, and then the interconnections-obvious and less obvious-between various stories or between… — Aleksandar Hemon Copy Share Image
One of the many lessons I hope I've learned is how much I underestimated people, their open-mindedness and their willingness to understand.… — Jeannette Walls Copy Share Image
It is very linear storytelling, and I think that's not so much the fashion. I was watching a new drama the other… — Rowan Atkinson Copy Share Image
“Think about the word destroy. Do you know what it is? De-story. Destroy. Destory. You see. And restore. That's re-story. Do you… — Francesca Lia Block Copy Share Image
Storytelling awakens us to that which is real. Honest. . . . it transcends the individual. . . . Those things that… — Terry Tempest Williams Copy Share Image
“When you've got a thing to say, Say it! Don't take half a day. When your tale's got little in it Crowd… — Joel Chandler Harris Copy Share Image
“These stories had intrigued her with their strange mix of violence and love, so unlike the distant, passionless affection of her own… — Shannon Hale Copy Share Image
“Others with names like myths, names like puzzles, names we had never heard before: Virgilio, Balamugunthan, Faheem, Abdulrahman, Aziz, Baako, Dae-Hyun, Ousmane,… — NoViolet Bulawayo Copy Share Image
I want to do a stripped-down album. That style is actually where my heart is - storytelling and just letting the voice… — Lykke Li Copy Share Image
I think that the reason you keep hearing that it's the golden age of TV is because original storytelling is happening all… — J. J. Abrams Copy Share Image
“These tales, without exception, express the truth that justice triumphs in the end. They all contain the idea that it is worth… — Gyula Illyes Copy Share Image
People always ask why I stay in the online space versus going to TV or film, like most people would do, and… — Felicia Day Copy Share Image
“Comprehending at one bound the myth of Demeter and knowing that she was Demeter, that the fountain between her thighs was my… — Kate Millett Copy Share Image
Our parents fill our heads with Cinderella, Prince Charming, Big weddings, and white horses...but then we get our heart broken for the… — Ana Chable Copy Share Image
“First we must learn to think mythologically. Powerful things happen when we touch the thinking which myths, fairy tales, and our own… — Robert A. Johnson Copy Share Image
I'm interested in the parallel narrative of our fantasy lives. How the moment of 'now' that is palpably real, is surrounded by… — Dave McKean Copy Share Image
There's no reason my films can't work as hard as VR does to hook an audience and never let them go, so… — Doug Liman Copy Share Image
I thought I could capture the stories of the city on paper. I thought I could write about the horrors of the… — Grant Morrison Copy Share Image
“My sister could really tell some tales on me. She knows things about me that my parents don’t know. This went against… — The writers of Encouraging.com Copy Share Image
“The underlying and more ominous question is whether the story of our species — the greater human narrative — has simply become… — Steve Almond Copy Share Image
“Subjective storytelling is now almost as common in the news media as it is in feature films, TV dramas, novels or theater… — Lance Morcan Copy Share Image
“In many of the films now being made, there is very little cinema: they are mostly what I call 'photographs of people… — Alfred Hitchcock Copy Share Image
“One time I told her that she reminded me of that charming tale, the one with the red shoes." Helen had always… — Lisa Kleypas Copy Share Image
You want people to think. You want people to be emotionally moved. And there's a theory behind that in terms of storytelling.… — George Lucas Copy Share Image
Maybe if people can't have an end to their suffering, the next thing they seek for is to know why they suffer.… — Matthew J. Kirby Copy Share Image
“That's the great truth of failed relationships, the narrative and the absence of narrative. Each time you tell the story, it makes… — Stephanie Reents Copy Share Image
I have not chosen to create a linear story, but a series of different narratives: in the end there are five plays… — Mark Ravenhill Copy Share Image
Before Gutenberg, there was this really very strong oral storytelling culture where being able to relay stories from person to person was… — Khoi Vinh Copy Share Image
“This story twists the ancient myths we grow up with,” Berger says, “where what the reader knows about the Olympian gods, or… — David Berger Copy Share Image
“We tell ourselves stories in order to live. The princess is caged in the consulate. The man with the candy will lead… — Joan Didion Copy Share Image
I see film as a real opportunity to examine the human condition. No matter where the technology goes in the future, the… — Michael Schultz Copy Share Image
“It was mundane. Pedestrian. But there was something beautiful about that mud-encrusted snow. How many people had passed through on their commutes… — Nikki Elizabeth Copy Share Image
“[Northrop] Frye was concerned mostly with literary criticism, and myths interested him as structural elements in works of literature. He used the… — Margaret Atwood Copy Share Image
There was a gap in minority heroes in animation, books, and storytelling for me as a kid, and being a father now,… — Baron Davis Copy Share Image
![“As I researched the history of the heroine it became painfully clear to me that women have had little hand in creating our own heroic myths. Indeed, as Sarah Pomeroy has shown, "[t]he mythology about women is created by men and, in a culture dominated by men, it may have little to do with…” quote by Kathleen Noble](https://sms4smile.com/q/img-quotes/af5/kathleen-noble-195686_history_as-i-researched-the-history-of-the-heroi_1343820.jpg)
![“[Northrop] Frye was concerned mostly with literary criticism, and myths interested him as structural elements in works of literature. He used the word myth to mean story, without attaching any connotation of truth or falsehood to it; but a myth is a story of a certain kind. The myths of a culture…” quote by Margaret Atwood](https://sms4smile.com/q/img-quotes/2b2/margaret-atwood-40_books_northrop-frye-was-concerned-mostly-with_1619694.jpg)
