“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
“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
“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
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
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
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
When I was a kid, my grandparents were Greek immigrants on my father's side. My grandfather used to read me Greek myths,… — Laeta Kalogridis Copy Share Image
The challenge in any kind of storytelling, as far as I know, it is, you're looking for the moment that is completely… — Timothy Olyphant Copy Share Image
Animation can be a full spectrum of different storytelling techniques and different genres. I think it's sad that there is only one… — Bill Plympton Copy Share Image
Stories are thick with meanings. You can fall in love with a story for what you think it says, but you can't… — Susan Fletcher Copy Share Image
I've been watching more American TV because of all the great TV series that have come out in the last five to… — Jo Nesbo Copy Share Image
Writing a story starts out as a puzzle in your mind, of "What is it I'm fantasizing about right now that makes… — Andrew Bujalski Copy Share Image
Fairy tales are loved by the child not because the imagery he finds in them conforms to what goes on within him,… — Bruno Bettelheim Copy Share Image
Fairy tales have always been about getting through the worst of everything, the darkest and the deepest and the bloodiest of events.… — Catherynne M. Valente Copy Share Image
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
This is the mythosphere. It's made up of all the stories, theories and beliefs, legends, myths and hopes, that are generated here… — Diana Wynne Jones Copy Share Image
“If you lose your ego, you lose the thread of that narrative you call your Self. Humans, however, can't live very long… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
I've been training like crazy with my trainer Decker Davis all the time, and we've been doing this new thing called Danger… — Russell Wilson Copy Share Image
I like owning my own narrative. It depends: I either give it all up, or I don't have any control. It's really… — Selah Louise Marley Copy Share Image
“In their purest form myths, not unlike tragedy, are perhaps the most important moment in the troubled history of Mexican civilization. The… — Jean-Marie Gustave Le Clézio Copy Share Image
By nature, a storyteller is a plagiarist. Everything one comes across--each incident, book, novel, life episode, story, person, news clip--is a coffee… — Rabih Alameddine Copy Share Image
“Scripture trains us to listen to and learn from stories of all kinds, inside the sacred text and outside, and to discern… — N.T. Wright Copy Share Image
“Sadly, many storytellers and artists are still addicted to the old delusions (happy is boring, evil is interesting) about the risks of… — Rob Brezsny Copy Share Image
What’s really important is storytelling. None of it matters if it doesn’t support the story. I thought The Avengers was an appalling… — Wally Pfister Copy Share Image
“You've got to make an effort to get the details right, because even through someone picks it up and knows it's a… — Sara Sheridan Copy Share Image
“Although the telling of our story is a learning tool, we must use caution lest we are swept away in the compulsive… — Kim Lincoln Copy Share Image
“Like any collection of family photographs, it was a random selection that told only fragments of a story. The real tale would… — Victoria Hislop Copy Share Image
It is not without fear and trembling that a historian of religion approaches the problem of myth. This is not only because… — Mircea Eliade Copy Share Image
You grow up loving movies, and your first instinct is you want to be an actor, because those are the people you… — Emily Meade 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
“(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
