Mother didn't understand that children aren't frightened by stories; that their lives are full of far more frightening things than those contained… — Kate Morton Copy Share Image
“In a story, you must always listen for the voice you cannot hear, the one that has been ignored or silenced. In… — Patricia Storace Copy Share Image
For me, storytelling is what I love to do and that's my life's work. Football is not my life's work. It's just… — Martellus Bennett Copy Share Image
It's often lost in most Silicon Valley startups, the importance of storytelling when most people are thinking about they assemble their team… — Brock Pierce Copy Share Image
I have definitely gone through my ups and downs and faced my adversity and my nay-sayers, but managed to do all right.… — Steve Nash Copy Share Image
When I was little, I made up my own fairy tales, and the ghostly echo of Once upon a time shapes all… — Justine Larbalestier Copy Share Image
The persona in my stories may be truer to my "real" self than any alleged objective, factual "I" that I could replicate… — Norman Lock Copy Share Image
Crafting a piece of gripping, narrative true crime that engages the world is not that different from crafting a piece of crime… — Karin Slaughter Copy Share Image
Lettering should be invisible. You shouldn't notice it, unless it is a determined piece of storytelling in graphic design. Whether handmade or… — Brian Michael Bendis Copy Share Image
The happy ending of the fairy tale, the myth, and the divine comedy of the soul, is to be read, not as… — Joseph Campbell Copy Share Image
It would not be too much to say that myth is the secret opening through which the inexhaustible energies of the cosmos… — Joseph Campbell Copy Share Image
“SIR,—Although I sent the following narrative to an Edinburgh newspaper, with the editor of which I was well acquainted; yet he refused… — John William Polidori Copy Share Image
Working with other artists and writers over the past couple years has really given me a clear idea of my strengths and… — Nina Nesbitt Copy Share Image
It takes stamina to get up like an athlete every single night, seven to eight performances a week, 20 weeks in a… — Kevin Spacey Copy Share Image
“Writing a balanced, beautiful novel, where plot and character and setting and pacing and narrative structure and imagery and, above all, story… — Nicola Griffith Copy Share Image
I guess storytelling's always been in my blood. My mom said I was always dressing up and jumping in front of the… — Amber Valletta Copy Share Image
Let children have tales of the imagination, scenes laid in other lands and other times; heroic adventures, hairbreadth escapes, delicious fairy tales,… — Charlotte Mason Copy Share Image
'Tales From Topographic Oceans' is like a woman's padded bra. The cover looks good, but when you peel off the padding, there's… — Rick Wakeman Copy Share Image
“Fairy tales were the door to the world of imagination for me as a child, that land I often lived in when… — Regan Walker Copy Share Image
I think of a myth as a story that helps you explain all the different pieces of your life. In that broad… — Lewis Hyde Copy Share Image
The narrative of our lives is a total construct. We get to choose what that is. That is something I've realized as… — Jason Segel Copy Share Image
Ever since childhood, I've been interested in history and myth. Not just the facts and figures of the past, but everything that… — Anne Fortier Copy Share Image
“Your key message is the one thing you want your audience to take away. It is what you want to convey and… — Calvin Niles Copy Share Image
When you’re living in the moment, you’re living in the moment; whatever that moment is, that’s your reality. Everything else is a… — Steven Heller Copy Share Image
Most people think its sex, money, and drugs but Hip-Hop is about lyrics, storytelling, and everybody having a different style. That's just… — Rapsody Copy Share Image
“I have worked with that ancient, fragmented, and incomplete narrative, with its barbarians, dragons, sunken cities, reeds and memory marks, twin-bladed warrior… — Samuel R. Delany Copy Share Image
Writers know - especially new writers - [that] a lot of it [creative process] is the prewriting stage, the talking, brainstorming, the… — Jenna Bush Copy Share Image
“And, as with all retold tales that are in people's hearts, there are only good and bad things and black and white… — John Steinbeck Copy Share Image
I try to naturally keep things to a manageable storytelling length, which is about two hours, so you try to cut out… — Martin McDonagh Copy Share Image
It's worth being suspicious of writers - or anyone! - who does that myth-making thing. There's always a tendency to retrospectively impose… — Guy Gavriel Kay Copy Share Image
The graduate earnings premium, used by the Tories to justify many of their regressive higher education policies, is fast becoming a myth. — Angela Rayner Copy Share Image
If the day-to-day culture is saying it's OK to not be inclusive or tolerant, that it's OK to be bigoted, then it's… — Julie Plec Copy Share Image
I don't write these stories for the rewards that come back to me. I write them because I have to write them.… — Noah Hawley Copy Share Image
'The Merchant of Venice' is a straightforward, clear story, while 'The Winter's Tale,' as a general rule, is hard to present because… — Jesse L. Martin Copy Share Image
Great actors like Willem Dafoe and Ellen Page and Samuel L. Jackson will go and do a videogame, because they understand that… — Andy Serkis Copy Share Image
What tale do you like best to hear?' 'Oh, I have not much choice! They generally run on the same theme -… — Charlotte Bronte Copy Share Image
I love graphic design. I love working with design, and I love storytelling, so I've been working on a children's book for… — Colleen Haskell Copy Share Image
I started moving into online work, and that exposed me to design and the impact it has on the flow, shape, and… — David Mccandless Copy Share Image
Music's always been a big part of my life, but it kind of all happened in one big ball of storytelling rather… — Clare Bowen Copy Share Image
In the face of events that threaten to overwhelm our lives, storytelling gives us a way of reclaiming ourselves and reaffirming our… — Victoria Alexander Copy Share Image