' The Lucky One' is at its heart a romance novel, elevated however by Nicholas Sparks' persuasive storytelling. Readers don't read his… — Roger Ebert Copy Share Image
(I am) dealing not with the particular anecdote, but rather with the Spirit of Myth, which is generic to all myths at… — Mark Rothko Copy Share Image
We need myths to get by. We need story; otherwise the tremendous randomness of experience overwhelms us. Story is what penetrates. — Robert Coover Copy Share Image
You need contrast and conflict in order to tell a story. Stories need to have dark and light, turmoil, all those things.… — David Lynch Copy Share Image
Somebody once asked me if I have anything like faith, and I said I have faith in the narrative. I have a… — Joss Whedon Copy Share Image
It goes against the American storytelling grain to have someone in a situation he can't get out of, but I think this… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The kind of people that love 'The Rocketeer' are the kind of people that love good storytelling and innocence and a better… — Billy Campbell Copy Share Image
I think a culture can really be elevated through the arts, and it's always a dream come true when I come across… — Nazanin Boniadi Copy Share Image
What we men share is the experience of having been raised by women in a culture that stopped our fathers from being… — Frank Pittman Copy Share Image
Christian nation mythologists pump themselves up with narratives of American exceptionalism and Christian domination. But sooner or later even their most devoted… — Sarah Posner Copy Share Image
“The heroic quest typically highlights a seemingly average person (think Thomas Anderson before he becomes Neo) who embarks on a perilous undertaking,… — Sol Luckman Copy Share Image
Children, only animals live entirely in the Here and Now. Only nature knows neither memory nor history. But man - let me… — Graham Swift Copy Share Image
“But the recurrent ambiguity of the American tale of the supernatural reveals both a fascination with the possibility of numinous experience and… — Howard Kerr Copy Share Image
“I remembered talking with a writer friend who lived in Otisfield and supported his wife and two kids by raising chickens and… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
My grandmother, Amalia Pia Emilia Vignola, whom I called Nonna, brought out the fairy tale in everything. She used to tuck me… — Emilia Wickstead Copy Share Image
I liked myths. They weren't adult stories and they weren't children stories. They were better than that. They just were. Adult stories… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
When you think about it, media's the intersection of content and technology - it's all about storytelling, like photography and the camera. — Bob Iger Copy Share Image
With some songs, I have written narratives or I've tried to carry it through, but generally the things that were more genius,… — Stephen Malkmus Copy Share Image
There's still formulaic stuff on network television, but there's also more of an opportunity to have your way with storytelling, especially in… — Amy Hill Copy Share Image
If you do weave one-liners into a story, you have to have an overall story as well, otherwise it doesn't really count… — Tim Vine Copy Share Image
The trite answer is that everything is true but none of it happened. It is emotionally true, but the events, the plotting,… — Patrick Marber Copy Share Image
Every great narrative is at least two narratives, if not more - the thing that is on the surface and then the… — Ali Smith Copy Share Image
Too many brands treat social media as a one way, broadcast channel, rather than a two-way dialogue through which emotional storytelling can… — Simon Mainwaring Copy Share Image
Food serves two parallel purposes: it nourishes and it helps you remember. Eating and storytelling are inseparable-the saltwater is also tears; the… — Jonathan Safran Foer Copy Share Image
The narrative of so many fairy tales are timeless in so many different cultures, and they have been since the dawn of… — Lily Cole Copy Share Image
“Most importantly, of course, we all care intensely for the narrative of our own life and very much want it to be… — Daniel Kahneman Copy Share Image
I'm always interested in debunking myths if they are untrue. But it's also important to identify myths and how they function, what… — Neal Ascherson Copy Share Image
I hate to debunk the myth - kids don't wanna hear it - but as songwriters, you have to polish your craft… — Synyster Gates Copy Share Image
In fact, the only way to inspire people to embrace change is through setting a narrative and telling a story. It can… — Kanika Dhillon Copy Share Image
“[Life] wasn't a fairy tale, and it didn't have a happy ending--but then again, no story did. In the end everybody dies...… — Aury Wallington Copy Share Image
I don't think there's a subject matter that can't absorb 3-D; that can't tolerate the addition of depth as a storytelling technique. — Martin Scorsese Copy Share Image
I like to apply storytelling methods and techniques to try to frame the story in an interesting way, but you can never… — Jørgen Leth Copy Share Image
“I must have been chosen because I know it all from beginning to end. I am certainly not the story itself. I… — Alfredo Véa Copy Share Image
Maybe I'm a little biased, but shows like 'Dexter' and 'Southland,' I'm just enthralled by that sort of storytelling, kind of clever… — Shawn Hatosy Copy Share Image
The 'Homecoming King' show started off as a storytelling show that I had done; I worked with Greg Walloch to develop it… — Hasan Minhaj Copy Share Image
“While what I write is always largely consistent with the records that remain I freely admit that where historical fact proves a… — Sara Sheridan Copy Share Image
I'm a Hollywood kid, and I know that there are only so many stories. Only so many tales around the campfire that… — Robert Englund Copy Share Image
I am thrilled when I read about fans using my stories as springboards to read about either the historical characters or the… — Michael Scott Copy Share Image
The most improbable tales can be made believable, if your reader, through his sense, feels certain that he stands at the middle… — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
I have no illusions concerning the precarious status of my tales and do not expect to become a serious competitor of my… — H. P. Lovecraft Copy Share Image
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