What I want to write about has changed somewhat, and the scope of the storytelling has changed accordingly. — Terry Brooks Copy Share Image
If people did not want their stories told, it would be better for them to keep away from me. — Sherwood Anderson Copy Share Image
The myth-making machine is the mimetic contagion that disappears behind the myth it generates. — Rene Girard Copy Share Image
We have such a young culture that there is an opportunity to contribute wonderful new myths to it, which will be accepted. — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
“Just as there can be a hole in these narratives, a memoir can be as much about what's forgotten as what's remembered.” — Jane Alison Copy Share Image
“you know: CLOUDY WITH A CHANCE OF HUGS IS THE ENTIRE REASON I EVER ENGAGE IN ANY NARRATIVE, FICTIONAL OR OTHERWISE??” — Ryan North Copy Share Image
Apparently I'm well-known for my stories, my raconteur tales, that sort of thing. — Rick Wakeman Copy Share Image
I'm interested in the possibility of fiction which straddles narrative and essay. — Susan Sontag Copy Share Image
“This true difference in me now: I had these experiances, these tales, more of this life. So maybe it wasn't the fairy… — Sarah Dessen Copy Share Image
...but the tale itself is a trickster and doesn't hesitate to lie. It is anachronistic with a vengeance. It emerges always and… — Gregory Maguire Copy Share Image
“Since large-scale human cooperation is based on myths, the way people cooperate can be altered by changing the myths – by telling… — Yuval Noah Harari Copy Share Image
Just as with the man in the fairy tale who turned whatever he touched into gold, with me everything is turned into… — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
“Fairy tales and folk tales are for children and childlike people, not because they are little and inconsequential, but because they are… — Anthony Esolen Copy Share Image
“Relying only on logic, on what can be factually established, may inform or intimidate, but it will rarely stir anyone into action… — Charlotte Beers Copy Share Image
The Tories always hold the view that the state is an apparatus for the protection of the swag of the property owners… — Aneurin Bevan Copy Share Image
You can be doing something and you have your narrative in your head, but that only means that to you - there's… — RaMell Ross Copy Share Image
But if it not be true, the myth itself requires to be explained, and every principle of philosophy and common sense demand… — William Robertson Smith Copy Share Image
In many college English courses the words “myth” and “symbol” are given a tremendous charge of significance. You just ain’t no good… — Ursula K. Le Guin Copy Share Image
There's some ambient music that doesn't do anything. I wouldn't say that that's narrative. It is narrative in that it creates a… — Missy Mazzoli Copy Share Image
“Storytelling is an ancient art. The lucent vibes of stories express what we cannot articulate directly. When we hear someone’s story, we… — Kilroy J. Oldster Copy Share Image
I mean, there are some amazing storytelling being done on the small screen right now. That's what so cool about being in… — Ian Somerhalder 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
“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
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
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