Every good story needs a hero. Back when I wrote 'The Search,' that hero was Google - the book wasn't about Google… — John Battelle Copy Share Image
Good scripts have always been, I think, hard to find. Good storytelling, good writing - it's just not easy. I have made… — Chris Cooper Copy Share Image
Within a scantily plotted, novella-style narrative (the movie is an adaptation of a short story by Tom Bissell), single shots become story… — Karina Longworth Copy Share Image
To write a good memoir you must become the editor of your own life, imposing on an untidy sprawl of half-remembered events… — William Zinsser Copy Share Image
What I'm really proud of Beyonce and Solange, they understand the importance of creating the narrative. It's all about the narrative and… — Mathew Knowles Copy Share Image
I don't have any great first job tales: I've never worked on a tramp steamer or in a coal mine or anything… — Mary Gordon Copy Share Image
“Good ink, good parchment, precious time - and all for the sake of a mouse in a glove.” Cian Brydydd Mawr smiled… — Hugh Lupton Copy Share Image
“We live in our tales of ourselves. . . and ignore as best we can the contradictions, and the lapses, and the… — Gregory Maguire Copy Share Image
“They way one does research into nonexistent history is to tell the story and find out what happened. I believe this isn't… — Ursula K. Le Guin Copy Share Image
I have enough friends who are gamers. I actually enjoy watching them play because of the visuals and the storytelling of the… — Bill Watterson Copy Share Image
I wanted to be a writer as a teen... so storytelling was my first love. In my late teens, design became an… — Yves Behar Copy Share Image
Twain's 'A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court' made me long to wake in an era when my Casio wristwatch would strike… — Anthony Doerr Copy Share Image
“The universal hero myth always refers to a powerful man or god-man who vanquishes evil in the form of drag- ons, serpents,… — C.G. Jung Copy Share Image
“A story must be judged according to whether it makes sense . And 'making sense' must be here understood in its most… — David Abram Copy Share Image
Many fantasy novels - 'Lord of the Rings', for instance, or 'Lavondyss' by Robert Holdstock - are beautifully written. Geoff Ryman's 'The… — David Gemmell Copy Share Image
“Martin, fables are possibly one of the most interesting literary forms ever invented. Do you know what they teach us? Moral lessons?… — Carlos Ruiz Zafon Copy Share Image
I heard a computer scientist the other day refer to playing with the Kinect as 'storytelling.' At first I thought that sounded… — Susan Orlean Copy Share Image
“It is our responsibility to keep telling these tales--to tell them in a way that they teach and entertain and give meaning… — Brian Jay Jones Copy Share Image
I grew up in a place where everybody was a storyteller, but nobody wrote. It was that kind of Celtic, storytelling tradition:… — Irvine Welsh Copy Share Image
A coalition with Tories and Liberal Democrats together is a golden opportunity to create the sort of planning reform that means not… — Michael Gove Copy Share Image
Don't despair for story's future or turn curmudgeonly over the rise of video games or reality TV. The way we experience story… — Jonathan Gottschall Copy Share Image
If I'm writing a radio thing that's narrative, it's quite nice to stop for an hour and write a load of garbage… — Tim Key Copy Share Image
Myths, legends and stories are the signposts previous generations have left us so we don't have to figure out our own personal… — Fred Van Lente Copy Share Image
I became an actress because I discovered the world of the imagination when I was about 14 or so and the concept… — Helen Mirren Copy Share Image
At one point it occurred to me that the title could make a more significant contribution to the storytelling process. It could… — Saul Bass Copy Share Image
But I think we are seeing a resurgence of the graphic ghost story like The Others, Devil's Backbone and The Sixth Sense.… — Guillermo del Toro Copy Share Image
“But I hasten to finish my story. Brevity is justified at once to those who readily understand, and to those who will… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
The trick with 'Nutcracker' was figure out how much, and where, we could the Tchaikovsky - using as much as we possibly… — James Newton Howard Copy Share Image
A myth is a lie that conceals or reveals a truth. But if it reveals even a strand of history or truth,… — Ashwin Sanghi Copy Share Image
Myths are the world's dreams. They are archetypal dreams and deal with great human problems. Myths and dreams come from the same… — Joseph Campbell Copy Share Image
It's probably why I'm a short story writer. I tend to remember things in the past in narrative form, in story form,… — Tobias Wolff Copy Share Image
Whether it's foreign money or hiding emails, these stories are creating a narrative about Hillary Clinton trying to be above everyone else… — Dana Perino Copy Share Image
Many, whose hearts are conquered by acute spite, roll out balanced tales from their own heart, which do not balance when you… — Lucius Accius Copy Share Image
All lives are tales. Some spread, and grow in the telling. Others are just told between us and the gods, muttered back… — Mark Lawrence Copy Share Image
All my tales are based on the fundamental premise that common human laws and interests and emotions have no validity or significance… — H. P. Lovecraft Copy Share Image
I read a handful of memoirs to get a sense of what the genre meant. I needed to learn the fundamentals of… — Tara Westover Copy Share Image
“THRILLING NARRATIVES OF MUTINY, MURDER AND PIRACY, A WEIRD SERIES OF Tales of Shipwreck and Disaster, FROM THE EARLIEST PART OF THE… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“Dirty mugs crowded a side table, the recycling bin was overflowing, and stacks of letters stood unopened. It all told a tale… — Jane Harper Copy Share Image
All the fairy tales of Aladdin, or the invisible Gyges, or the talisman that opens kings' palaces, or the enchanted halls underground… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Nothing is too long or too short either if you have a true and interesting tale and what I call a "graphic"… — Charles Portis Copy Share Image
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