“I travel the world. I Take nothing but pictures, kill nothing but time and leave nothing but footprints.” — Maarten Schäfer Copy Share Image
Deeper meaning resides in the fairy tales told to me in my childhood than in the truth that is taught by life. — Friedrich Schiller Copy Share Image
I hate dream sequences in movies and T.V. shows generally for their heavy-handed symbolism and storytelling tediousness. — Ira Glass Copy Share Image
“Since then, at an uncertain hour, That agony returns: And till my ghastly tale is told, This heart within me burns.” — Samuel Taylor Coleridge Copy Share Image
For thousands of years, humans have used the art of storytelling to motivate and persuade. — Kristen Soltis Anderson Copy Share Image
Everything starts with fishermen's tales. Everywhere you go the fishermen talk. — Jeremy Wade Copy Share Image
When I think of artists I love, like J. Cole, it's the storytelling that grabs me. I want to be honest with… — Dua Lipa Copy Share Image
The narratives in which you're born have a fierce pattern of repetition. — Mahesh Bhatt Copy Share Image
“As the years progress and we experience more and more, the mini-narratives that make up our lives are distorted, corrupted, so that… — Michelle Richmond Copy Share Image
Storytelling was a way to see the world bigger than the one you were looking at, and that had great appeal for… — Robert Redford Copy Share Image
They were written on cheap blue notebooks bought by poor women. I'm interested in folk tales in the way that medicine and… — Alice Hoffman Copy Share Image
Fiction connects: past and present; the great and the small; the surface with the depths. Fiction brings out the innermost, invisible springs… — Varley O'Connor Copy Share Image
The protagonist of folktale is always, and intensely, a young person moving through ordeals into adult life. . . . and this… — Jill Paton Walsh Copy Share Image
Storytelling is our oldest form of remembering the promises we have made to one another and to our various gods, and the… — Jane Yolen Copy Share Image
“Storytelling is a creative way to engage a young child who is not ready to read books. Imagination is the key to… — Cassie Pope Copy Share Image
You will go on and meet someone else and I'll just be a chapter in your tale, but for me, you were,… — Marian Keyes Copy Share Image
My English teachers gave me a copy of Atwood's 'The Handmaid's Tale' when I left high school, which has always been very… — Samantha Shannon Copy Share Image
I say 'spectacle' rather than 'story' because in the end, it isn't the intricacies of narrative that draw us to horror films.… — Clive Barker Copy Share Image
They're [zombies] us, you can also have the wrestler zombie, the clown zombie, the Jay Leno zombie and the nun zombie. I've… — Tom Savini Copy Share Image
“I have noticed that when people tell their own stories, often it has less to do with wanting to communicate an idea… — Lydia Minatoya Copy Share Image
The best memoirs - like This Boy's Life, or Crazy Brave [by Joy Harjo], for instance - bring you through a private… — Lidia Yuknavitch Copy Share Image
“there is a growing body of work coming out of psychology and cognitive science that says you have no clue why you… — David McRaney Copy Share Image
“Above all, readers want useful information, whether from a road sign or an investment guide. This motive is not completely absent even… — Alice W. Flaherty Copy Share Image
“The tales of pure terror, of course, are completely naturalistic in their content, and must stand or fall by their merit alone.… — Herbert A. Wise Copy Share Image
“some things that should not have been forgotten were lost. History became legend. Legend became myth.” — J.R.R. Tolkien Copy Share Image
Games are advancing in terms of storytelling and trying to create a character, and its a brand new audience for me. — Kevin Spacey Copy Share Image
“linear narrative was not doing a very good job representing life as I experienced it,” — Jill Talbot Copy Share Image
Live your life in such a way that it is going to be the favorite story of your generation and generations to… — Amit Kalantri Copy Share Image
I think the power of storytelling is so important. It helps when people realize they're not alone. — Cynthia Germanotta Copy Share Image
“What matters isn't the stories themselves; it's how the stories end.” — Nikki Haley Copy Share Image
Characters last. Beautiful writing lasts. A compelling narrative lasts. Art survives long after ideas go extinct… — Joel Achenbach Copy Share Image
Come along it is the break of day. Surely now, you'll have some things to say. It's not the time for telling… — Sia Copy Share Image
The test of a true myth is that each time you return to it, new insights and interpretations arise. — Starhawk Copy Share Image
As long as we are engaged in storytelling that moves the culture forward, it doesn't matter what format it is. — LeVar Burton Copy Share Image
“My own life is a fairy tale story—one that has already been written by the hands of God.” — Tessa Emily Hall Copy Share Image
I was suckered in by the myth of the man [ William Burroughs] as much as by his work. — Oliver Harris Copy Share Image
Her fairy tale would include me and a basketball.. On her home court. — Raghib Clitso Copy Share Image
“Gnostic tales tell of the homesickness of the soul, its yearning for its own milieu…” — Thomas Moore Copy Share Image