“Fairy tales weren't made of common sense and logic—they were leaps of faith.” — Heather Long Copy Share Image
The world is full of such tales of fate and coincidence, for that's what we burn into our memories. — Skyrim Copy Share Image
It would seem that the more irresponsible and crafty one is, the more likely one is to have a talent for storytelling. — Osamu Dazai Copy Share Image
I like the storytelling and reading the letters, the long-distance dedications. — Casey Kasem Copy Share Image
Erections, Ejaculations,Exhibitions and General Tales of Ordinary Madness. — Charles Bukowski Copy Share Image
Folk tales, which are usually written for children, become a bigger lesson for adults. — Shweta Basu Prasad Copy Share Image
I don't think that digital technology will ever take away the humanity of storytelling, because storytelling is entirely, in and of itself,… — David Fincher Copy Share Image
The whole dear notion of one's own Self-marvelous old free-willed, free- enterprising, autonomous, independent, isolated island of a Self- is a myth. — Lewis Thomas Copy Share Image
The great thing about fairy tales and myths is that they go beyond character. They're not about character. They're about more basic… — Neil Jordan Copy Share Image
I'm partial to epic poetry, which might be surprising given that I don't write poetry at all. The combination of rollicking storytelling… — Jennifer Egan Copy Share Image
“When my mom was alive, she read me stories every night. ”Use your imagination, Lorelei,” she’d say, “and your whole life can… — Nikki Loftin Copy Share Image
Sometimes the art pieces I gravitate toward speak to me in terms of narrative, at other times they speak to me in… — Claudia Rankine Copy Share Image
“Fairy tales have a habit of ending too soon. They never show what happens afterwards when the prince and princess ride off… — Kate Morton Copy Share Image
“In Paris, where raillery is so quick to throw emotion out the window, silence, in a roomful of clever people after a… — Jules Barbey d'Aurevilly Copy Share Image
Heinrich Zimmerhe had a little saying : The best things cant be told - because they are transcendent, inexpressible truths. The second… — Joseph Campbell Copy Share Image
“Most happy stories are fantasies that never happened. A form of wish fulfillment. (...) Telling happy stories that actually happened lends a… — Megan McCafferty Copy Share Image
Narrative and metaphysics alike become flimsy and frivolous if they venture too far from the home base of all humanism - the… — John Updike Copy Share Image
“You remember the fairy tales you were told when you were very small - 'once upon a time...' Why do you think… — Susan Cooper Copy Share Image
“Narratives are universally used for mediating emotional experiences. The purpose of aesthetic objects has been defined, in part, as 'the awakening, intensifying,… — Mikkel Wallentin Arndis Simonsen Andreas Hojlund Nielsen Copy Share Image
“These people showed a marked increase in connections between parts of the frontal cortex associated with self-concept and parts of the brain… — Florence Williams Copy Share Image
There is always a place where, if you listen closely in the night, you will hear a mother telling a story and… — Edwidge Danticat Copy Share Image
I just find it absolutely amazing that the narrative about this situation is not put out publically in the press, because it… — Julian Assange Copy Share Image
It certainly is my opinion that a book worth reading only in childhood is not worth reading even then. — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
I liked myths. They weren't adult stories and they weren't children's stories. They were better than that. They just were. — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
I think movies moving forward are going to become long-form storytelling. — Joe Russo Copy Share Image
Both dreams and myths are important communications from ourselves to ourselves. — Erich Fromm Copy Share Image
The police genre is capable of holding and shaping many forms of storytelling. — Lesley Sharp Copy Share Image
I'm an artist - I'm an actor - so when I'm looking for something, I'm looking for stories. — Brandon Victor Dixon Copy Share Image
A plain narrative of any remarkable fact, emphatically related, has a more striking effect without the author's comment. — William Shenstone Copy Share Image
Innovation and thoughtful visual storytelling are deeply woven into the fabric of Getty Images. — Mark Getty Copy Share Image
The resultant tales from life are stirring reader interest, survivor passions and unease among Britons. — Francis X Clines Copy Share Image
We cannot resort to simplistic or extreme solutions which substitute myths for common sense. — Jimmy Carter Copy Share Image
History is the myth, the true myth, of man's fall made manifest in time. — Henry Miller Copy Share Image
“Good content isn’t about good storytelling. It’s about telling a true story well.” — Ann Handley MarketingProfs Copy Share Image
Directing is all about storytelling. It's not about equipment, or anything else. — John Carpenter Copy Share Image
In our family, as far as we are concerned, we were born and what happened before that is myth. — V. S. Pritchett Copy Share Image
