I think that through the narratives of other people you get closer to your own. — Chath Piersath Copy Share Image
The myth works to make the very real things people don't want to look at visible for them. — Alexander Chee Copy Share Image
We all have different narratives; all of our narratives are at different stages of development. — Viola Davis Copy Share Image
All men are children, and of one family. The same tale sends them all to bed, and wakes them in the morning. — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
I don't make unconventional stories; I don't make non-linear stories. I like linear storytelling a lot. — Steven Spielberg Copy Share Image
There are stories I wanted to tell, and they are not defined by what I look like. — Malachi Kirby Copy Share Image
“Stories have a job to do. They can't just lie around like lazybone dogs. They have to teach you something.” — Lloyd Jones Copy Share Image
“My story and my stories are all, in one or another, the same, tales of solitude and the grand pursuit of connection,… — Michael Chabon Copy Share Image
“The cure for competing narratives is nothing more or less than the Apostles’ Creed. Yes, I’ll say that again: the creed is… — Sarah Arthur Copy Share Image
Each time, storytellers clothed the naked body of the myth in their own traditions, so that listeners could relate more easily to… — Joan D. Vinge Copy Share Image
It is a great vehicle for storytelling, especially for a certain kind of exhaustively reported, painstakingly fact-checked, and beautifully produced narrative. — Clara Jeffery Copy Share Image
“Storytelling is ultimately the only way that we know besides song, dance, painting, and music to share with our tribesmen what it… — Kilroy J. Oldster Copy Share Image
Folk tales, fairy tales, religion, the occult - these are the things I'm most passionate about, even more than cinema. And I'm… — Robert Eggers Copy Share Image
You cannot reduce the power of story with the tag of money because it's not a share market. So you must know… — Irrfan Khan Copy Share Image
“For the great enemy of truth is very often not the lie--deliberate, contrived, and dishonest--but the myth--persistent, persuasive, and unrealistic.” — John F. Kennedy Copy Share Image
There was a gap in minority heroes in animation, books, and storytelling for me as a kid, and being a father now,… — Baron Davis Copy Share Image
“[Northrop] Frye was concerned mostly with literary criticism, and myths interested him as structural elements in works of literature. He used the… — Margaret Atwood Copy Share Image
A myth is a way of making sense in a senseless world. Myths are narrative patterns that give significance to our existence.… — Rollo May Copy Share Image
“But I will relate what happened with absolute honesty; that, perhaps, will help me understand it. After all, when one confesses to… — Jorge Luis Borges Copy Share Image
“During the second half of the twentieth century, cross-fertilization among the disciplines of history, literature, sociology, and psychology led to scholarly awareness… — Miranda Wilcox Copy Share Image
“The presentation scene itself we skip. It is not a good idea to interrupt the narrative too often, since storytelling works by… — J. M. Coetzee Copy Share Image
“Different narrative forms naturally lend themselves to different aspects of existence. The novel is ideal for presenting the inner lives of its… — Todd Alcott Copy Share Image
Writing stories, adopting other characters, making up fantastic stories and tales, this is a way of perhaps enhancing who I am. Writing… — David Small Copy Share Image
Myths give us our sense of personal identity, answering the question, 'Who am I?' — Rollo May Copy Share Image
“ANYTHING IN THIS UNIVERSE CAN BE A STORY WORTH TELLING, AS LONG AS YOU KNOW HOW TO BEST TELL IT.” — FILM CRIT HULK Copy Share Image
“In a nation whose great informing myth is that it has no great informing myth, familiarity equaled timelessness” — David Foster Wallace Copy Share Image
The purpose of a storyteller is not to tell you how to think, but to give you questions to think upon. — Brandon Sanderson Copy Share Image
Fairy tales are my natural language. I feel at ease telling fairy tales like a fish feels in water. I am totally… — Michel Ocelot Copy Share Image
People don't like the true and simple; they like fairy tales and humbug. — Edmond de Goncourt Copy Share Image
“Stories don't always have to end happily.. Sometimes it's just enough that they end.” — Terri Cheney Copy Share Image
“History is often made and buttressed by myths and folklore rather than facts.” — Daikichi Irokawa Copy Share Image
So maybe it wasn't the fairy tale. But those stories weren't real anyway. Mine were. — Sarah Dessen Copy Share Image
It is good for children to find themselves facing the elements of a fairy tale - they are well-equipped to deal with… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
I've always hated narrative songs. I hate those songs where, basically, it's an unfolding of a story. — Nick Cave Copy Share Image
My overall artistic goal is to marry graphic design with comic books and traditional storytelling. — Jonathan Hickman Copy Share Image
History shows us that the songs - the myth, the experience and the emotion - live longer the less you explain. — Sondre Lerche Copy Share Image
With 3D, all you're doing is trying to shock the audience; there's no value to the storytelling. — Nick Nolte Copy Share Image
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