If the Tories are serious about ensuring everyone has the opportunity to learn, regardless of their background, then the only thing they… — Angela Rayner Copy Share Image
The true novelist is one who understands the work as a continuous poem, is a myth-maker, and the wonder of the art… — Muriel Spark Copy Share Image
We need a new and positive narrative that defies the negativity and transforms our ageing populations from a problem into an asset. — Alexander De Croo Copy Share Image
Women don't question themselves when they enter into a story that has male characters, but men do question the validity of a… — Romola Garai Copy Share Image
There is a part of me that likes things that are epic, that's why I think a lot of my songs go… — Josh Garrels Copy Share Image
Out with stereotypes, feminism proclaims. But stereotypes are the west's stunning sexual personae, the vehicles of art's assault against nature. The moment… — Camille Paglia Copy Share Image
I am thankful to those who've listened to my story over and over as well as those who've helped me share it.… — Clemantine Wamariya Copy Share Image
My humor tends to be a little more edgy than is appropriate for 'Twilight,' although I got some in there. That was… — Melissa Rosenberg Copy Share Image
My real purpose in telling middle-school students stories was to practice telling stories. And I practiced on the greatest model of storytelling… — Philip Pullman Copy Share Image
As a reporter, you know the tropes of how stories on poverty work in any country. A reporter will go to an… — Katherine Boo Copy Share Image
That's what we do, man, we're like storytellers. We tell you stories from the streets. Whether we did it before when we… — Kurupt Copy Share Image
“Each of us lives with a sword over his head. There are those who can ignore its shadow and those who cannot.… — Murray Kempton Copy Share Image
When I was 9 or 10, I used to get all the lead roles because I was the tallest person. But my… — Taylor Swift Copy Share Image
“Less reliable tales also reached his ears, of a dwarf witch who haunted a hill in the riverlands, and a dwarf whore… — George R.R. Martin Copy Share Image
“Fairy tales are about trouble, about getting into and out of it, and trouble seems to be a necessary stage on the… — Rebecca Solnit Copy Share Image
It may be said that myths give to the transcendent reality an immanent, this-worldly objectivity. Myths speak about gods and demons as… — Rudolf Bultmann Copy Share Image
Novels are one of the few remaining areas of narrative storytelling where one person does almost all of the creative heavy lifting. — Charles Stross Copy Share Image
“A Shadow's Tale - I'm going to keep calling it A Shadow's Tale because fuck America for wanting to be different and… — Yahtzee Croshaw Copy Share Image
We use technology in service of the art, as a storytelling tool - and if we want to do something that's never… — Travis Knight Copy Share Image
I'd love to take a stab at writing videogames. There are a lot of storytelling opportunities that really aren't being taken advantage… — Patrick Rothfuss Copy Share Image
Storytelling is storytelling. You still play by the same narrative rules. The technology is completely different. I don't use one piece of… — James Cameron Copy Share Image
Not all Peter Greenaway's stuff is sequential, narrative story. Some of it is like an art installation and I'm not particularly interested… — Martin Freeman Copy Share Image
“Writing is something you do alone. Its a profession for introverts who want to tell you a story but don't want to… — John Green Copy Share Image
A short film is just another storytelling medium like TV, Features, and Webisodes. I am just thrilled that 'Silent Cargo' is getting… — Ellen Wong Copy Share Image
THE HEIR OF NIGHT by Helen Lowe is a richly told tale of strange magic, dark treachery and conflicting loyalties, set in… — Robin Hobb Copy Share Image
We need time to relax and enjoy ourselves too, no matter how dark the story. The occasional humorous moment helps with that.… — Patrick Rothfuss Copy Share Image
From earliest times, humans - explorers and thinkers - have wanted to figure out the shape of their world. Forever, the way… — Adam Savage Copy Share Image
“There were good places and bad places to tell stories and there were of course stories that could not be told in… — Gerald Hausman Copy Share Image
The problem is I want to do everything. I really love all of it, and I love every aspect of movie-making and… — Joss Whedon Copy Share Image
My parents were working performers, so obviously I saw that there wasn't a lot of fairy tale going on there. It was… — Megan Follows Copy Share Image
I stick closely to the structure of the myths. I may have some fun with the mythology by changing the environment to… — Rick Riordan Copy Share Image
I tend to write longer narrative pieces after I've finished writing a novel - when the fiction's finished and put away, and… — Dinaw Mengestu Copy Share Image
“This is called the theory of narrative causality and it means that a story, once started, takes a shape. It picks up… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
…everything has a narrative, really, and if you can’t understand a story and relate to it, figure out how you fit inside… — Catherynne M. Valente Copy Share Image
'Tis an old tale, and often told; But did my fate and wish agree, Ne'er had been read, in story old, Of… — Walter Scott Copy Share Image
A curious thing about atrocity stories is that they mirror, instead of the events they purport to describe, the extent of the… — John Dos Passos Copy Share Image
“Persons attempting to find a motive in this narrative will be prosecuted; persons attempting to find a moral in it will be… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
A myth... is a metaphor for a mystery beyond human comprehension. It is a comparison that helps us understand, by analogy, some… — Christopher Vogler Copy Share Image
I liked lots of 'Doctor Who' books, but my favourite tale was a spooky story about two invalid children - who've never… — Stephen Cole Copy Share Image
Seldom does a storytelling talent come along as potent and fully mature as Mike Brotherton. His complex characters take you on a… — David Brin Copy Share Image