Finding one's voice - or creating a narrative voice that has the power to carry your story - is the hardest part. — Danielle Trussoni Copy Share Image
As soon as I left Georgia, my narrative became about taking risks and the fight for creative bedroom artists with no platform. — Kevin Abstract Copy Share Image
“When a solid first draft of an original tale is complete...you feel as if you could do anything.” — Christy Hall Copy Share Image
The myth of the self-made man, has to be profoundly hypocritical: it is the self-serving demonstration that a lie is the truth — Che Guevara Copy Share Image
Stories are important...They can be more important than anything. If they carry the truth. — Patrick Ness Copy Share Image
“When we believe a wounding story, our whole world is diminished.” — Sharon Salzberg Copy Share Image
Storytelling and copulation are the two chief forms of amusement in the South. Theyre inexpensive and easy to procure. — Robert Penn Warren Copy Share Image
As a generalization, fantasy writing has leaned more on political storytelling the more it's tried to escape the inevitable influence of Middle-earth,… — Ross Douthat Copy Share Image
“It is a law of the story-teller's art that he does not tell a story. It is the listener who tells it.… — Melville Davisson Post Copy Share Image
I grew up in a society with a very ancient and strong oral storytelling tradition. I was told stories, as a child,… — Khaled Hosseini Copy Share Image
“People are hardwired to listen to stories. Stories are the way human knowledge was passed down before the written word. Storytelling is… — Akash Karia Copy Share Image
I've always said there are four words that every child in the world knows, and those are, "Tell me a story,." Even… — Don Hewitt Copy Share Image
“Writers use narratives to select from everything there is, and make contexts by putting the pieces into relation; that’s what writers do,… — Paul Shepheard Copy Share Image
“It aspires to being a modernized fairy tale, in which the wonderment and joy are retained and the heartaches and nightmares are… — L. Frank Baum Copy Share Image
The history of storytelling isn't one of simply entertaining the masses but of also advising, instructing, challenging the status quo. — Therese Fowler Copy Share Image
Rachel Resnick's story of love lost and love sought cracks open the timeworn addiction narrative to release something raw, probing, brave, and… — Hope Edelman Copy Share Image
I've always been fascinated by dreams - they seem like such intriguing evidence of the brain's obsession with narrative as a form… — Chloe Benjamin Copy Share Image
I had Paterson, and The Art Lover, to guide me for The Tales of Horror (written from 1988-'97 and published in 1999),… — Laura Mullen Copy Share Image
A people are as healthy and confident as the stories they tell themselves. Sick storytellers can make nations sick. Without stories we… — Ben Okri Copy Share Image
Why are so many of us enspelled by myths and folk stories in this modern age? Why do we continue to tell… — Terri Windling Copy Share Image
Freud becomes one of the dramatis personae, in fact, as discoverer of the great and beautiful modern myth of psychoanalysis. By myth,… — D. M. Thomas Copy Share Image
“Here’s the first thing you need to know: all the fairy tales are true. Oh, the specific events that the Brothers Grimm… — Seanan McGuire Copy Share Image
“She let him do it, not only because she came out looking all right in his story, not a clock-throwing ruin of… — McKelle George Copy Share Image
