“The enormity of problems like hunger and social injustice can certainly motivate us to act. We can be convinced logically of the… — John Capecci and Timothy Cage Copy Share Image
The story depicts also the troubled part of the hero's life which precedes and leads up to his death; and an instantaneous… — A. C. Bradley Copy Share Image
We can't write a serious novel in the 21st century without acknowledging the inescapable self-awareness we're stuck with. The idea we're surrounded… — Michael Helm Copy Share Image
Television is what we call the long form of storytelling, where we tell stories over thirteen, twenty-two, or twenty-four hours. Miniseries is… — Grant Bowler Copy Share Image
“Reader, do not doubt the truth of my words, for the tale I tell is a lie from beginning to end. It… — Noémi Szécsi Copy Share Image
“Now "The Arabian Nights," some of which, but not nearly all, are given in this volume, are only fairy tales of the… — Muhsin Mahdi Copy Share Image
I've always loved fairy tales. I think they perhaps led me to theater rather than the other way around. As a child… — Mary Zimmerman Copy Share Image
“I suppose you must feel some bitterness against the historians," Roger ventured. "All the writers who got it wrong--made him out to… — Diana Gabaldon Copy Share Image
“If you are tempted to reveal A tale to you someone has told About another, make it pass, Before you speak, three… — Beth Day Copy Share Image
“If there’s one thing I sincerely hope this book might get you to reconsider,” Rudder writes in the introduction, “it’s what you… — Christian Rudder Copy Share Image
“I felt as though the past and the future, cause and effect, patterns and connections, were a huge complicated artifice, and it… — Ann Brashares Copy Share Image
Symbols are specific acts or figures, while myths develop and elaborate these symbols into a story which contains characters and several episodes.… — Rollo May Copy Share Image
“An old man spoke to his grandson. "My child," he said. "Inside everyone there is a battle between two wolves. One is… — Christine Woodward Copy Share Image
I think it's always a challenge when you're telling a story that people know. But hopefully, good storytelling - well, there's two… — Kimberly Peirce Copy Share Image
Digression is my passion. I love telling the main stories, but in some ways, what I love most is using those narratives… — Erik Larson Copy Share Image
The short story is at an advantage over the novel, and can claim its nearer kinship to poetry, because it must be… — Elizabeth Bowen Copy Share Image
You are never alone in Afghanistan. You are always in the company of others, usually family. You don't understand yourself really as… — Khaled Hosseini Copy Share Image
“Like Seita and Setsuko, like Chihiro - like Sophie Hatter who disappears from her dreary life into a world of talking fireballs… — Karl Thomas Smith Copy Share Image
“Most of my stories are not nice ones, their heroic aspects dimmed by the fact that the hand which struck me was… — David Carr Copy Share Image
“If you were crossing the road and saw a black cat passing, you may possibly get hit by a car, or a… — Basma Salem Copy Share Image
There is no greater power on this earth than story.” Will paced the length of the room. “People think boundaries and borders… — Libba Bray Copy Share Image
I grew up in Sierra Leone, in a small village where as a boy my imagination was sparked by the oral tradition… — Ishmael Beah Copy Share Image
“Chimerical words, the words were written, Some are wasted; some are still on the page, Tattered words, the words were written, Some… — Nishikant Copy Share Image
“We are all tellers of tales, and we seek to provide our scattered and often confusing experiences with a sense of coherence… — Dan P. McAdams Copy Share Image
My writing has to excite people and depict or include their experiences. That's part of my process - to go out and… — Chuck Palahniuk Copy Share Image
We all recall the cruel stepmother in fairy tales. That archetype is often a necessary element in a fairy tale so that… — David Richo Copy Share Image
“Since middle-class Western women can best be weakened psychologically now that we are stronger materially, the beauty myth, as it has resurfaced… — Naomi Wolf Copy Share Image
“Reading is never purely an act of isolation. When we read, we enter into a world of commonality, whether of language, story,… — Andrew Piper Copy Share Image
Graphic novels might really speak to one child who's struggling with the other kinds of reading and might help them discover that… — Emma Walton Hamilton Copy Share Image
“There fared a mother driven forth Out of an inn to roam; In the place where she was homeless All men are… — G.K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
When I made 'Tales of Tacobella,' and I made 'Sugar Trap,' it was like people literally trying to say that like, either… — Rico Nasty Copy Share Image
We hunger to understand, so we invent myths about how we imagine the world is constructed - and they're, of course, based… — Carl Sagan Copy Share Image
“Her favorite stepping-aside technique was to lay out a dizzying mountain of complex steps and then pronounce the conclusion self-evident. Excuse me?… — Charlotte Beers Copy Share Image
“I always wondered why the makers leave housekeeping and cooking out of their tales. Isn't it what all the great wars and… — Ursula K. Le Guin Copy Share Image
Less and less frequently do we encounter people with the ability to tell a tale properly. More and more often there is… — Walter Benjamin Copy Share Image
“In the end, it wasn't so much that there was an alternative narrative--there always was--but it came down to belief: Which one… — Michael Paterniti Copy Share Image
“The tremendous historical need of our unsatisfied modern culture, the assembling around one of countless other cultures, the consuming desire for knowledge--what… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
“A story with a single ending seems to us a bare and diminished thing, like a tree with a single branch; and… — Steven Millhauser Copy Share Image
