My career as an author began as I saw it as a natural progression from music, as both music and books are… — Tom Fletcher Copy Share Image
When I got hurt, I wanted to develop my skills from a storytelling perspective, do the work, read books. Develop things. To… — Baron Davis Copy Share Image
A myth is, of course, not a fairy story. It is the presentation of facts belonging to one category in the idioms… — Gilbert Ryle Copy Share Image
“Every story is a ride to some place and time other than here and now. Buried in an armchair, reclined on a… — A.A. Patawaran Copy Share Image
Poetry, above all is a series of intense moments its power is not in narrative. I'm not dealing with facts, I'm dealing… — Carol Ann Duffy Copy Share Image
“I’m writing a book, one letter at a time. After thirteen days, I just finished writing “Once upon a time.” Since it’s… — Jarod Kintz Copy Share Image
The forest has always been a place, in fairy tales and in Shakespeare, where you go and discover who you are. You… — David Farr Copy Share Image
“What happens when you don't know the truth but you can't believe the lies, when you can't find a way--through fact or… — Maria Goodin Copy Share Image
For narrative games, and also for the sake of the medium, we have to treat performance that way, as actors. You have… — Ashly Burch Copy Share Image
By definition it uses and plays and delights in time. It delights in the interlacing of chronologies and the consequences of that… — Chang-Rae Lee Copy Share Image
“New Age spirituality purports to promote change – its mantra is ‘transformation’ – but, in reality, it endorses the status quo. It… — Helen Morales Copy Share Image
“Joey was lying by the stream one afternoon after a hard day. He had been in trouble at school because he had… — Ellen J. Lewinberg Copy Share Image
In what bold relief stand out the lives of all walkers of the snow! The snow is a great tell-tale, and blabs… — John Burroughs Copy Share Image
“Woolrich had a genius for creating types of story perfectly consonant with his world: the noir cop story, the clock race story,… — Francis M. Nevins Copy Share Image
In the spring or warmer weather when the snow thaws in the woods the tracks of winter reappear on slender pedestals and… — Cormac McCarthy Copy Share Image
“Our Di had, according to her myth, been hounded to death by the baying werewolves of the yellow press. Of course it… — Michael Moorcock Copy Share Image
Storytelling helps us understand each other, translate the issues of our times, and the tools of theater and film can be powerful… — Kevin Spacey Copy Share Image
[M]yths are not invented as stories are. Myths are inspired-they really are. They come from the same realm that dream comes from. — Joseph Campbell Copy Share Image
“A myth... is a metaphor for a mystery beyond human comprehension... A myth, in this way of thinking, is not an untruth… — Brian Godawa Copy Share Image
I'm not a go-out-with-a-band artist. I'm an intimate, storytelling folk artist. It guides the writing and makes for a concert that I'm… — Shawn Colvin Copy Share Image
Probably every subject is interesting if an avenue into it can be found that has humanity and that an ordinary person can… — William Zinsser Copy Share Image
Storytelling is as old as speech. It existed before humans first began to carve shapes in stones and press their hands upon… — Kate Forsyth Copy Share Image
The study of folklore is largely the study of particular folklore genres: myth, folktale, legend, ballad, proverb, riddle, superstition, etc. — Alan Dundes Copy Share Image
Because of all the concurrent stories going in 24 and its fast pace, it can be complicated in terms of the story,… — Stephen Hopkins Copy Share Image
I don't think you ever outgrow your love for things that are bigger than life and more colorful than the average life.… — Stan Lee Copy Share Image
No myth dies harder, and none is more regularly debunked by the facts, than the one about international sports contributing to international… — Alistair Cooke Copy Share Image
Woodrell's storytelling is as melodic, jangly and energetic as a good banjo riff… Sammy Barlach's story is a tragedy, but the telling… — Valerie Sayers Copy Share Image
Many fairy tales and ballads present us with animals who are nobler, truer, and kinder than the greedy human beings who desire… — Delia Sherman Copy Share Image
The truth about life was that nothing ever ended until you died, and even then you just left a whole bunch of… — Nick Hornby Copy Share Image
“Morris liked to share he books with others. Sometimes it was a favorite that everyone loved, and other times he found a… — William Joyce Copy Share Image
But I suspect that all writers come up with premises of some kind, fragments of narrative or scenarios, in the course of… — Nick Hornby Copy Share Image
For some reason, I write about crash-landed spaceships quite a lot and my wife is sick of hearing of hearing my ideas… — Erica Brown Copy Share Image
“Step by step the narrative split into a thousand stories, as if it had entered a gallery of mirrors, its identity fragmented… — Carlos Ruiz Zafón Copy Share Image
I'm not a sci-fi lover; I wasn't from the start. So perhaps I miss that passion for other worlds, other dimensions, that… — Paul McGann Copy Share Image
I see all art as a complement to telling people's stories. I'm in the storytelling business. I believe that the humanity that… — Oprah Winfrey Copy Share Image
The original and very basic 'Law & Order' series has always seemed to me to be 100-percent exposition, with no filler, no… — Tom Shales Copy Share Image
“I come from a family of Cherokee master storytellers. Listening to stories, reading them, and creating new tales is my life. These… — Louise Ann Barton Copy Share Image
Curious things, habits. People themselves never knew they had them. [Witness for the Prosecution, also published in The Hound of Death and… — Agatha Christie Copy Share Image
It's hard enough to tell good stories about people who analyze information for a living. It's even harder to do a good… — Henry Bromell Copy Share Image
Freud was one of the greatest influences on me. He made myth into psychiatry, and I've been trying to turn it back… — Ross Macdonald Copy Share Image
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