Personal narrative is one of the few things where people don't get caught up in fighting over esoteric rhetoric. — Hasan Minhaj Copy Share Image
“A stranger lies behind my eyes, I know not what he wants; sells me dreams, tells me tales, then with the truth,… — Akash Mandal Copy Share Image
Writing is storytelling. No matter how you slice it, you're saying, 'Once upon a time.' That's what writing is all about. — Mary Higgins Clark Copy Share Image
Our tree became the talking tree of the fairy tale; legends and stories nestled like birds in its branches. — Willa Cather Copy Share Image
A story to me must have some surprise...I must have a passion to write the story. — Isaac Bashevis Singer Copy Share Image
People make their own narrative, the media makes their own narrative. — Mark Ingram II Copy Share Image
The thriller is not a recent invention. It probably goes back to the dawn of storytelling. — Lee Child Copy Share Image
A lot of the drive to make narratives came from having to play by myself as a 5- or 6-year-old in the… — Matthew Tobin Anderson Copy Share Image
The only consistent narrative we possess is one that we share with every other life-form: we are born, we live, and then… — Steven Erikson Copy Share Image
I don't know any family that doesn't have a story somewhere. Besides, it you didn't have those things in life, you'd be… — Orlando Bloom Copy Share Image
I've been transformed by stories, and I think that storytelling is definitely sacred. I take it very seriously because my life has… — Karla Souza Copy Share Image
Country is bringing in a little rock element... a little '80s element. Melody is king now. But its just in the music,… — Lionel Richie Copy Share Image
“I think human beings have evolved to appreciate narrative, in the same way that we have evolved to learn language. What is… — Alex Epstein Copy Share Image
In everything I've written, the crime has always just been an occasion to write about other things. I don't have a picture… — Peter Temple Copy Share Image
“I think my mother's and Granny's storytelling had had the same effect upon me when a child, as the reading of books:… — Mark Mathabane Copy Share Image
I grew up watching monster movies and horror movies, which I felt were like fairy tales and I think this always spoke… — Tim Burton Copy Share Image
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
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
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
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
