“I’m not beholden to the confirmation of your prejudices; to be perfectly frank, the prospect of confining the female characters in my… — Scott Lynch Copy Share Image
Individual stories from the Bible had been made into movies, but no one had taken on the arc of the Bible story… — Roma Downey Copy Share Image
'St. Elmo's Fire' is one of my favorite films. I like the storytelling of those teenage American films. You don't get that… — James McAvoy Copy Share Image
For a truly effective social campaign, a brand needs to embrace the first principles of marketing, which involves brand definition and consistent… — Simon Mainwaring Copy Share Image
When I wrote The Virgin Suicides, I gave myself very strict rules about the narrative voice: the boys would only be able… — Jeffrey Eugenides Copy Share Image
I don't procrastinate because I love the English language and the process of storytelling, and I'm always curious to see what will… — Dean Koontz Copy Share Image
“The Dreamer awakes The shadow goes by The tale I have told you, That tale is a lie. But listen to me,… — Traditional folktale ending Copy Share Image
For, while the tale of how we suffer, and how we are delighted, and how we may triumph is never new, it… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
In my work, there is a lot of storytelling. The storytelling is not a new thing. Back in the [Howard] Thurston days,… — Judd Apatow Copy Share Image
“Literature supplements the lives of people and enables us to feel connected with the world. Shared stories blunt a sense of tragic… — Kilroy J. Oldster Copy Share Image
I'm not trying to create a stand-in or avatar with whom the reader can identify, but separate, believable characters with distinct personalities;… — Jason Lutes Copy Share Image
Still, I wonder if we shall ever be put into songs or tales. We're in one, of course; but I mean: put… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
It takes a perverse determination to drain that instinctive curiosity away and make history seem just remote, dead and disconnected from our… — Simon Schama Copy Share Image
Although I'm up for working in any genre, I do love the passion and dynamic storytelling that horror stories can provide. Dealing… — Barbara Crampton Copy Share Image
I cannot bear not to know the end of a tale. I will read the most trivial things – once commenced –… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I prefer things that are private, so I love recording and I love making films, as a filmmaker, because it uses every… — Barbra Streisand Copy Share Image
What did it for me was a blurb on the back of a book I was reading. The blurber wrote - I… — Debra Hamel Copy Share Image
The power of the documentary film, when done well, I think is usually more impacting than a narrative, at least for me.… — Richard Ray Perez Copy Share Image
Try this experiment: Pick a famous movie - 'Casablanca,' say - and summarize the plot in one sentence. Is that plot you… — Peter Greenaway Copy Share Image
“And I knew only what all men know, that the cycle of winter and spring and all growing things has within itself… — Anne Rice Copy Share Image
“Old stories sometimes slid out of her like lamp oil or light, stories containing details oblique and nearly incomprehensible to me or… — Peggy Herring Copy Share Image
There was also the myth of the western films. But my films are borrowed not from the story of the West in… — Sergio Leone Copy Share Image
Even if I made pornography, the trauma would show, though. It will always be there because it's my verité. It's my kind… — Lav Diaz Copy Share Image
During the last economic slowdown in the 1990s, the Tories slashed infrastructure investment. I am determined not to make that mistake. — Geoff Hoon Copy Share Image
This is all I ever wanted - to help students and artists see myth as a reflection of the one sublime adventure… — Joseph Campbell Copy Share Image
Stories live in your blood and bones, follow the seasons and light candles on the darkest night-every storyteller knows she or he… — Patti Davis Copy Share Image
“The Bible-as-narrative takes precedence over our attempts to express Christian belief in propositional or abstract terms, which is to say the stories… — Sarah Arthur Copy Share Image
I can do my part of the storytelling. I can carry it. I can paint it. I can maneuver it. I can… — Nicolas Winding Refn Copy Share Image
Fairy tales opened up a door into my imagination - they don't conform to the reality that's around you as a child.… — Kate Atkinson Copy Share Image
I wrote my first two long novels and an anthology of short narratives, when I was a manager of my own jazz… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
Sometime let gorgeous Tragedy In sceptred pall come sweeping by, Presenting Thebes, or Pelops' line, Or the tale of Troy divine. — John Milton Copy Share Image
Stories twist and turn and grow and meet and give birth to other stories. Here and there, one story touches another, and… — Marcus Sedgwick Copy Share Image
The greatest tales, well told, awaken the fears and longings of the listeners. Each man hears a different story. Each is touched… — Juliet Marillier Copy Share Image
“A myth has been well described as something that in some sense happened once—but that also happens all the time. It is… — Karen Armstrong Copy Share Image
I myself wouldn't want to read a magazine that focuses solely on a small part of the literary field or of the… — Toni Jerrman Copy Share Image
Helen Tse tells a gripping tale of struggle, laughter, love and food that marks Sweet Mandarin as a must read book. It… — Ken Hom Copy Share Image
I'm a lover of film and storytelling. I believe that I was put on earth to tell stories, and I'm not interested… — Justin Simien Copy Share Image
As filmmakers, we love ambitious storytelling; it's one of the reasons we pushed to do 'Civil War.' We want to be as… — Joe Russo Copy Share Image
“Stories matter. They shape our lives, expectations, and dreams. They are the warp and weave of our human existence, binding us into… — Bascomb James Copy Share Image
I'm partial to epic poetry, which might be surprising given that I don't write poetry at all. The combination of rollicking storytelling… — Jennifer Egan Copy Share Image
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