There are recurring elements in popularized fairy tales, such as absent parents, some sort of struggle, a transformation, and a marriage. If… — Kate Bernheimer Copy Share Image
The simple circumstantial narrative (did such a narrative exist) of the ruin of a single town, of the misfortunes of a single… — Edward Gibbon Copy Share Image
It struck me as I listened to those two men that a truer nomination (name) for our species than Homo sapiens might… — Henning Mankell Copy Share Image
Self-pity, a dominant characteristic of sociopaths, is also the characteristic that differentiates heroic storytelling from psychological rumination. When you talk about your… — Martha Beck Copy Share Image
I'm pretty good at fleshing out characters. I like to crawl inside their minds and imaginations and sort of loll about. Sticking… — Gina Ochsner Copy Share Image
“The only disadvantage in surviving a dangerous experience lies in the fact that your story of it tends to be anticlimactic. You… — Beryl Markham Copy Share Image
“My aunt and my mother read to me when I was three from all the old Grimm fairy tales, Andersen fairy tales,… — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
There are plenty of writers, past and present, from Shakespeare to Henry James to Lydia Davis, who test the limits of coherence… — Joanna Scott Copy Share Image
For me, the best journalism is usually the best storytelling, and the best stories are those of real people. Sometimes those real… — Jason Rezaian Copy Share Image
History is often the tale of small moments—chance encounters or casual decisions or sheer coincidence—that seem of little consequence at the time,… — Scott Anderson Copy Share Image
“Read together, these two completed narratives constitute the saga of an exemplary twentieth-century American unsentimental education, in which the generosity of Billy… — William S. Burroughs Jr Copy Share Image
Nonfiction narratives are really powerful and valid in themselves. But one thing that you don't get sometimes from the more clinical or… — Dave Eggers Copy Share Image
It has been said, "History is written by the victors." I take this to mean we can make ourselves victorious by writing,… — Jennifer Beals Copy Share Image
“Anthropological theory assumes that exposure in a treeless situation where all escape upwards was cut off led to the invention of myths.… — W.G. Sebald Copy Share Image
Jennifer Fulwiler's story of finding God when you aren't looking for Him is a universal tale which will touch many hearts. With… — Raymond Arroyo Copy Share Image
It's a risk, but I'm sort of ready to let go of thinking of movies as books that you can watch. The… — Shane Carruth Copy Share Image
We promote Asian storytelling - not just Asian stories but Asian people in stories with the full spectrum of the human experience.… — Ronny Chieng Copy Share Image
“This is the secret of good storytelling: to lie, but to keep the arithmetic sound. A storyteller, like any other sort of… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
That's just how I see things on a base level: there's so much going on. Or at least I like to have… — Jane Campion Copy Share Image
I think we're in this exciting moment of Internet streaming storytelling, and it's anybody's guess what that is or what it means.… — Brit Marling Copy Share Image
“But there was a catalyst, an event, a moment which changed everything and not just for us. This is good for storytelling… — Laurie Frankel Copy Share Image
The Blood of Heroes is surely the best account to date, one that presents plenty of new insights while acting as a… — William C. Davis Copy Share Image
If it's just me on stage telling stories for, like, an hour, that's great. That's fine. But like a sandcastle on the… — Hasan Minhaj Copy Share Image
Moments are incredible, but in my fantasy mind I see a Globe company which is renowned throughout the world for what it… — Mark Rylance Copy Share Image
“I’ve never liked urban myths. I’ve never liked pretending to believe in them; never understood why everyone else doesn’t see straight through… — Mikey Campling Copy Share Image
“The common cultural narratives would tell me that I somehow failed myself, that I’m a quitter or a loser, that I just… — Mark Manson Copy Share Image
“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
“[[diving into the wreck]] First having read the book of myths, and loaded the camera, and checked the edge of the knife-blade… — Adrienne Rich Copy Share Image
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
“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
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
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