Myth and mythology often serve constructive and aspirational purposes. But they also do harm. — Fred Kaplan Copy Share Image
“My stories are not against anyone; they are for the life we need.” — Dorothy Allison Copy Share Image
We usually center our narratives that come out of Hollywood from a white male center. — Misha Green Copy Share Image
As human beings, we are all not conducting just one narrative but many narratives all at the same time. — David Hare Copy Share Image
One of the things that's important about family is the narrative history they create for themselves. — Gabe Newell Copy Share Image
“other tales, the sailors reach a land of intelligent talking animals who find humans disgusting and rather stupid.” — Robin Hobb Copy Share Image
“It's very healing,' he said, 'to tell yourself your own story as though you were reciting a myth.” — Frank Delaney Copy Share Image
I think that instinct, that storytelling instinct, rescued me most of my life. — Armistead Maupin Copy Share Image
Say what you want about it, Hell is story-friendly... The mechanisms of hell are nicely attuned to the mechanisms of narrative. Not… — Charles Baxter Copy Share Image
“I believe stories have a will of their own, one that surpasses in volition that of their teller. In realms of Storytelling,… — Ibraheem Hamdi Copy Share Image
While writing a normal song, we just pen four lines and then we have a chorus and some lines again. But rap… — Raftaar Copy Share Image
“Nothing on the face of this earth - and I do mean nothing - is half so dangerous as a children's story… — Barry Hughart Copy Share Image
The idea that an author can extricate her or his own ongoing life experience from the tale being written is a conceit… — Steven Erikson Copy Share Image
“As soon as we open our eyes in the morning, what we want most is to matter, to live a life and… — Bernadette Jiwa Copy Share Image
A narrative is like a room on whose walls a number of false doors have been painted; while within the narrative, we… — John Updike Copy Share Image
“She started telling Lyda stories, odd nameless placeless stories, about the man and the woman, myths or memories, perhaps from her own… — Julianna Baggott Copy Share Image
“In any event, whether a supernatural tale remains altogether fantastic or eventually modulates to the uncanny or the marvelous, the reader is… — Howard Kerr Copy Share Image
“You see, a truth parted with has its own way of becoming a tale. It is told so often that it stumbles… — Roshani Chokshi Copy Share Image
It's only recently that I've come to understand that writers are not marginal to our society, that they, in fact, do all… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
Marjan. I have told him tales of good women and bad women, strong women and weak women, shy women and bold women,… — Susan Fletcher Copy Share Image
Oh, do you have A Tale of Two Cities?" "That silly thing? Men going around getting their heads chopped off for love?… — Cassandra Clare Copy Share Image
“I recalled the afternoon when the two of us stood beating erasers, and Camille confided that she'd done penance for stories -… — Stuart Dybek Copy Share Image
Even though I read voraciously as a child, I never saw myself in books. Without narratives to expand my ideas of who… — Jesmyn Ward Copy Share Image
For whatever reason, thus far it's been important to me not to write that kind of collection. Which means that I've spent… — Roy Kesey Copy Share Image
I don't immerse myself in the media narrative every day. I establish my own media narrative, and that's what I live. — Rush Limbaugh Copy Share Image
Just the idea of seeing a type of narrative we've not seen before is a chance to be surprised. — Elvis Mitchell Copy Share Image
There's a quality of legend about freaks. Like a person in a fairy tale who stops you and demands that you answer… — Diane Arbus Copy Share Image
Broadchurch' was all about shades of grey, both in characters and storytelling, and I wanted to see that through to the end. — Chris Chibnall Copy Share Image
Storytelling wasn't about making things up. It was more like inviting the stories to come through her, let themselves be told. — Jennifer McMahon Copy Share Image
I like absurdist aesthetics. There's something about dream logic that's really fascinating, how it interweaves with narrative. — Hiro Murai Copy Share Image
Not exactly but I get inspiration from stories which are unconventional. — Anil Kapoor Copy Share Image
To create a collection, you need a narrative - an explanation to tell the team. — Dries van Noten Copy Share Image
Obviously people loved 'Mystery Road', people loved the storytelling aspect of it, people liked the character. — Aaron Pedersen Copy Share Image
“meaningless search for random points of correspondence among a hodgepodge of ancient fictions, fables, and myths.” — Dan Brown Copy Share Image
All great political families have myths: stories they tell themselves about how history happened. — Peggy Noonan Copy Share Image
“Everything is a story, a narrative, a sequence of events with characters communicating an emotional content.” — Carlos Ruiz Zafón Copy Share Image
“Tales are not created to tell the truth, the truth as relative as everything else in life” — أميرة الشربيني Amira Elsherbiny Copy Share Image
There are your enemies, the Red Coats and the Tories. They are ours, or this night Molly Stark sleeps a widow! — John Stark Copy Share Image
No matter what you write, you actually can't help retelling a fairy tale somewhere along the way. — Catherynne M. Valente Copy Share Image
