The only one I have any trust in is storytelling - there's a couple I have a lot of trust in. — Michael Pollan Copy Share Image
Life is a story told, a story told is a story heard, make yours an unforgettable tale. — Copyright © 2002 John Udemba Copy Share Image
“The saddest thing of growing up is people no longer believe in fairy tales.” — Cao Đức Trọng Copy Share Image
I'm not really a storyteller myself - I tend to get all tangled up when I try and tell stories. — Daniel Day-Lewis Copy Share Image
Somewhere along the way one discovers that what one has to tell is not nearly so important as the telling itself. — Henry Miller Copy Share Image
Anyone at any age is able to tell the story of his or her life with authority. — E. L. Doctorow Copy Share Image
My time online has shown me that the viewers will respond most to authentic storytelling. — Eugene Lee Yang Copy Share Image
With a tale, forsooth, he cometh unto you; with a tale which holdeth children from play, and old men from the chimney… — Philip Sidney Copy Share Image
I was interested in dark subject matter for sure, including folklore, fairy tales, mythology, archetypal stories of people going into the bowels… — Robert Eggers Copy Share Image
American movies are often very good at mining those great underlying myths that make films robustly travel across class, age, gender, culture. — Tom Hooper Copy Share Image
A beautifully written tale that lives somewhere between landscape and memory, where regret becomes a prison, and a story told often enough… — Brunonia Barry Copy Share Image
“I was starting to believe I was a character in a greater story, which is why the elements of story made sense… — Donald Miller Copy Share Image
“People often think of storytelling as a performative act of persuading others, conveying messages, and selling ideas. But we must recognize that… — Calvin Niles Copy Share Image
What's fun to me is that we can make movies but we are no longer restricted by this two-hour timeframe. It gives… — Matt Duffer Copy Share Image
“And giving it a happy ending, when all know that tales never end, and the happy ending is but a moment to… — Robin Hobb Copy Share Image
“For most of human history, myths have survived through changing times because they did not demand to be seen as a literal… — Jonah Sachs Copy Share Image
“The woman who presents herself to the spectator as a 'picture' forever arranged, is, for the contemplative mind, the chiefest danger. Sometimes… — Djuna Barnes Copy Share Image
“The object of storytelling, like the object of magic, is not to explain or to resolve, but rather to create and to… — Tim O'Brien Copy Share Image
Such is life, my fellow-mummers-just like a poor player that bluffs and feints his hour upon the stage, and then cheapens down… — Joseph Furphy Copy Share Image
“When my father was a young man, during the years of the First World War and long before there was any inkling… — J.R.R. Tolkien Copy Share Image
There’s no way to really preserve a person when they’ve gone and that’s because whatever you write down it’s not the truth,… — Steven Hall Copy Share Image
This is not the way these tales end," Calliope said firmly. "This is not the way that things end when they get… — John Barnes Copy Share Image
“The next time you feel yourself giving in to the sometimes overwhelming urge to panic about the fate of literature in the… — Adam Hammond Copy Share Image
Are you a storyteller, Thomas Covenant?" Absently he replied, "I was, once." "And you gave it up? Ah, that is as sad… — Stephen R. Donaldson Copy Share Image
People remember stories much better than they remember a straight list of teachings. — Marcus Borg Copy Share Image
“In this time of 'information overload', people do not need more information. They want a story they can relate to.” — Maarten Schäfer Copy Share Image
“The lie felt good because I had taken control of the narrative around me. The” — Percival Everett Copy Share Image
I think photography is a universal language as far as storytelling goes, and I think that's what it's most successful at. — Mary Mattingly Copy Share Image
I think dreams can come true, but not necessarily like fairy-tales. It's not always so perfect like that. — Patrick Dempsey Copy Share Image
“A fairy tale becomes one dream of a reality when a tale has been told by a poet in a dream.” — Petra Hermans Copy Share Image
“A story is a really weird art object that should contain life but not be enslaved by the banality.” — George Saunders Copy Share Image
“...but there are stories that cannot begin at their beginning, and perhaps this is one of them.” — Félix J. Palma Copy Share Image
What I'm passionate about is telling stories which mean something to me. — Marc Forster Copy Share Image
“Writing nonfiction means I tell people's stories for them, not because they're special but because we all are.” — Jo Deurbrouck Copy Share Image
If history is deprived of the Truth, we are left with nothing but an idle, unprofitable tale. — Polybius Copy Share Image
This is my history; like all other histories, a narrative of misery. — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
