Every time the Tories get a bit of power, they rip off all the things I love... The mining industry. Milk. — Rhys Ifans Copy Share Image
There's no harmony in most people in a way, and I'm attracted to it, and I think it makes for good storytelling. — Greg Kinnear Copy Share Image
To be honest, Peter Pan was one of those fairy tales that I sort of related to, and I think that's the… — Robbie Kay Copy Share Image
“I had been brought up to believe that you never told tales, and that you should fight your own battles” — Anonymous Copy Share Image
All the Indigenous paintings throughout history, they were always a bird's eye view, it's the Indigenous way of storytelling. — Aaron Pedersen Copy Share Image
What’s really important is storytelling. None of it matters if it doesn’t support the story. — Wally Pfister Copy Share Image
“We testify of what we have experienced and witnessed. May our testimony inspired others to share their story.” — Lailah Gifty Akita Copy Share Image
“Great novels are above all great fairy tales . . . literature does not tell the truth but makes it up.” — Vladimir Nabokov Copy Share Image
There are no events but thoughts and the heart's hard turning, the heart's slow learning where to love and whom. The rest… — Annie Dillard Copy Share Image
“There's always someone who secretly believes in myths and legends; or at least parts of them. Those are the people who will… — Aprilynne Pike Copy Share Image
I always wanted to make the matches in some way different unique and interesting. I never wanted to have that basic match.… — Gail Kim Copy Share Image
The tremendous challenge of narrative journalism about subjects that are underreported is, how do you make people care about something they think… — Sarah Stillman Copy Share Image
The great enemy of the truth is very often not the lie, deliberate, contrived and dishonest, but the myth, persistent, persuasive and… — John F. Kennedy Copy Share Image
We live immersed in narrative, recounting and reassessing the meaning of our past actions, anticipating the outcome of our future projects, situating… — Peter Brooks Copy Share Image
“Stories trace their roots to impassioned human interactions with the world. I always sense a storyline as an emotional yearning embedded in… — Kilroy J. Oldster Copy Share Image
“His whole life was a sham, a fairy tale. The truth hidden behind a wall of lies, each lie another brick in… — Shaun Jeffrey Copy Share Image
“What is more, as J. R. R. Tolkien reminds us in his great essay on Beowulf, there is a danger that attends rational and… — Gregory Alan Thornbury Copy Share Image
I always thought that I could write a novel. In my case, it was misguided. I do believe that the best nonfiction… — Ron Rosenbaum Copy Share Image
“Anyway, it's a pretty good story," I said. "You have to admit." "Yeah?" He crumpled up the Kleenex, having dispatched the solitary… — Michael Chabon Copy Share Image
The Tories had the legal right to demand extra meetings of the council but I could decide when they would be held… — Ken Livingstone Copy Share Image
It has been said that the myth is a public dream, dreams are private myths. Unfortunately we give our mythic side scant… — Mary Zimmerman Copy Share Image
We must remember that there is a great difference between a myth and a miracle. A myth is the idealization of a… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
No matter how clear things might become in the forest of story, there was never a clear-cut solution, as there was in… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
“My hips bristle with totems and talismans, proof that I am not simply a character in a fixed book or film. I… — Chuck Palahniuk Copy Share Image