“To paraphrase Muggeridge: Everything is a parable that God is speaking to us, the art of life is to get the message.” — Chester Elijiah Branch Copy Share Image
Life is not a fairly tale and it worse when people expect so much from you. — Dave Mahamooi Copy Share Image
Most of my films have been documentaries, but I'm also very interested in narrative filmmaking. — Barbara Kopple Copy Share Image
Even if someone doesn't like it, or just likes it for me, storytelling has been the one true love story of my… — Kelly Marie Tran Copy Share Image
Narrative is radical, creating us at the very moment it is being created. — Toni Morrison Copy Share Image
“Maybe when we can tell the stories, however bad they are, we don't belong to them anymore. They become ours.” — Ava Dellaira Copy Share Image
“Effective content marketing is about mastering the art of storytelling. Facts tell, but stories sell.” — Bryan Eisenberg Copy Share Image
“A disproportionate number of stories are love stories – and what is homosexuality but a special narrative of love?” — Christopher Bram Copy Share Image
“For me, stories are like WD-40 for the brain: they keep all the wheels and gears and clicky-things running smoothly. Without them,… — The Inkslinger Copy Share Image
With storytelling, you have to see yourself as the hero in the movie of your own life, and I kind of see… — Baron Vaughn Copy Share Image
“Accurate and questioning dramatic and written narratives that expose true human character, is the necessary glue of any intelligent, enduring and compassionate… — Yon Walls Copy Share Image
“Tell me tales of inconceivable fear and unimaginable love, in orbs whereto our sun is a nameless star, or unto which its… — Clark Ashton Smith Copy Share Image
Americans think cinema is about storytelling; I don't believe that. I think it's a language and everyone has to find their own… — Marjane Satrapi Copy Share Image
I really enjoy the pastiche storytelling of watching separate stories slowly collide with one another. The audience gets to participate in trying… — Tim Kring Copy Share Image
He told them tales of bees and flowers, the ways of trees, and the strange creatures of the Forest, about the evil… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
When those myths were created, when the Bible was written, man didn't know what an atom or a germ was, or where… — Bill Maher Copy Share Image
“Most kids don't believe in fairy tales very long. Once they hit six or seven they put away "Cinderella" and her shoe… — Rob Thurman Copy Share Image
“Every culture that has lost myth has lost, by the same token, its natural healthy creativity. Only a horizon ringed about with… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
A too often forgotten truth is that you can live through actual events of history and completely miss the underlying reality of… — Tom Harpur Copy Share Image
I am a man, and men are animals who tell stories. This is a gift from God, who spoke our species into… — Clive Barker Copy Share Image
The motive for criticizing myth, that is, its objectifying representations, is present in myth itself, insofar as its real intention to talk… — Rudolf Bultmann Copy Share Image
Lewis Carroll, you see, wasn't really interested in telling an exciting story. Well, he wasn't interested in things like cause and effect… — James Bobin Copy Share Image
“Francie always remembered what that kind teacher told her. “You know, Francie, a lot of people would think that these stories that… — Betty Smith Copy Share Image
The store of fairy tales, that blue chamber where stories lie waiting to be rediscovered, holds out the promise of just those… — Marina Warner Copy Share Image
Just because this isnt a fairy tale dosnt mean we cant live happily ever after — Ana Copy Share Image
The sea always offers up incredible stories of survivors' fortitude. Myths of a lot of countries have variations on that. — Colin Farrell Copy Share Image
The ultimate for me would be to do a feature that didn't require any narrative structure. — Johnny Depp Copy Share Image
This is the sorcery of literature. We are healed by our stories. — Terry Tempest Williams Copy Share Image
“According to the myth, Prometheus steal fire to free us; Iago steals us as fresh fodder for the fire.” — Harold Bloom Copy Share Image
“My #love stories have happy endings, because I stop the tales before dejection, dementia, and death occur.” — Jarod Kintz Copy Share Image
We are storytelling animals, and cannot bear to acknowledge the ordinariness of our daily lives. — Stephen Jay Gould Copy Share Image
I'm a project-based photographer; I think in narrative terms, the way a writer thinks of a book, or a filmmaker a film. — Alec Soth Copy Share Image
“This is how reason really works: through framing, metaphors, emotion, narratives, and imagery.” — George Lakoff Copy Share Image
As David Roderick says about writing, "It's not the tale that pleases, it's the telling," and I could not agree more. — Jack Driscoll Copy Share Image
Most of what we say about ourselves is a wonderful piece of storytelling. — Simon McBurney Copy Share Image
I love REAL set construction and think that sets are very important part of the storytelling and scope of a film. — Guillermo del Toro Copy Share Image
Dragons and bridges are very much something out of fairy tales and fantasy. — John Howe Copy Share Image
Myths are clues to the spiritual potentialities of the human life. — Joseph Campbell Copy Share Image
“An intensely gripping narrative...expertly crafted and totally addictive...a must read!” — Maggie Reese Copy Share Image
“What we put in and leave out of our stories tells us something about who we are.” — Eddie S. Glaude Jr Copy Share Image
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