The great thing about fairy tales and myths is that they go beyond character. They're not about character. They're about more basic… — Neil Jordan Copy Share Image
The whole dear notion of one's own Self-marvelous old free-willed, free- enterprising, autonomous, independent, isolated island of a Self- is a myth. — Lewis Thomas Copy Share Image
In terms of 'Ray Donovan,' the story is so rich, the actors are so fantastic, the writing is impeccable. And it's such… — Katherine Moennig Copy Share Image
'The Terminator' is grounded in so much realism. It's again a story that centers around a woman that isn't a 'woman's picture'… — Zal Batmanglij Copy Share Image
So here is my story, may it bring Some smiles and a tear or so, It happened once upon a time, Far… — Brian Jacques Copy Share Image
If you're doing a big spectacle film, you've got to be mindful of large masses. Even then, you've got to be responsible… — Guillermo del Toro Copy Share Image
We aren't natural statisticians. What we are is natural storytelling machines. And so what we do after we have the facts in… — Michael Lewis Copy Share Image
“When my mom was alive, she read me stories every night. ”Use your imagination, Lorelei,” she’d say, “and your whole life can… — Nikki Loftin Copy Share Image
“Memories that have never been told aren't yet solid stories; they are potential stories. It may be that the interlocutor is the… — Siri Hustvedt Copy Share Image
I could tell you a tale about something,' Miach offered, rubbing her hand absently. 'If you like.' She frowned thoughtfully. 'What sort… — Lynn Kurland Copy Share Image
“Great leaders are great storytellers. These leaders know that they must tell powerful stories to engage and enlist their followers. They know… — Nick Morgan Copy Share Image
“I have a very clear memory of my first encounter with myth, sitting in a mobile library and travelling, at the same… — Alan Lee Copy Share Image
“Such a storm of emotions as humans can evoke, all on the basis of imagination,” the dragon observed condescendingly. In a more… — Robin Hobb Copy Share Image
“The biggest myth about comedy is that it’s magical, unknowable, unteachable. Those who subscribe to that myth believe that the world is… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“A garden path,' write the landscape architects Charles W. Moore, William J. Mitchell, and William Turnbull, 'can become the thread of a… — Rebecca Solnit Copy Share Image
“We're going on a bit too fast. You and I, Sam, are still stuck in the worst places of the story, and… — J.R.R. Tolkien Copy Share Image
“Fairy tales have a habit of ending too soon. They never show what happens afterwards when the prince and princess ride off… — Kate Morton Copy Share Image
Sometimes the art pieces I gravitate toward speak to me in terms of narrative, at other times they speak to me in… — Claudia Rankine Copy Share Image
“In Paris, where raillery is so quick to throw emotion out the window, silence, in a roomful of clever people after a… — Jules Barbey d'Aurevilly Copy Share Image
With acting, there's a certain amount of independence you have within the framework of the storytelling. When it's done well, it's a… — Maura Tierney Copy Share Image
There's a classic element that all good Disney movies have. It really comes down to the storytelling, I think. It manages to… — Mandy Moore Copy Share Image
The Tories have been offering us a cocktail of incompetence and malice and Labour haven't done anything to draw attention to it.… — Frankie Boyle Copy Share Image
When you're talking about Tim Burton, you're talking about a guy that has such a visual sense, an aesthetic, a storytelling style.… — Jackie Earle Haley Copy Share Image
I think the cinema-going public are smart enough to separate fiction from reality but suspend their disbelief for long enough to be… — Adam Pearson Copy Share Image
I plan less and less. It's a great benefit of writing lots, that you get good at holding long narratives in your… — Jonathan Lethem Copy Share Image
The book has many different characteristics: some are extremely old-fashioned storytelling traits, but there are also a fair number of postmodern traits,… — Jeffrey Eugenides Copy Share Image
I always want to be telling stories in whatever fashion I can, and directing is really just understanding and learning a different… — Allison Mack Copy Share Image
“But history has been adapted here, re-spun to tell Jan's tale: the story of a boy caught up in a world of… — Joanne Owen Copy Share Image
I don't think that digital technology will ever take away the humanity of storytelling, because storytelling is entirely, in and of itself,… — David Fincher Copy Share Image
If you just read the book, you're taking in the narrative, you're taking in the characters, you're understanding it in a certain… — James Franco Copy Share Image
Don't just tell me a mystery; give me a world. Suzanne Myers delivers a hurricane-ravaged island shimmering with atmosphere and dense with… — Judy Blundell Copy Share Image
But surely to tell these tall tales and others like them would be to spread the myth, the wicked lie, that the… — Zadie Smith Copy Share Image
Black storytelling can be about anything, absolutely anything, and within that it can be as enriching, as complex, beautiful, ugly as anything… — Paterson Joseph Copy Share Image
For us, since we entered the MCU as storytellers, and we picked up the story with 'Winter Soldier,' we've been carrying a… — Anthony Russo Copy Share Image
The word story is intended to alert the reader to the fact that, however closely the narrative may fit the facts, the… — Bruce Chatwin Copy Share Image
“As the months went by, Talese began to see the masseuse as a kind of unlicensed therapist. Just as thousands of people… — Gay Talese Copy Share Image
My family were great story-tellers. My mum was one of 12 and they were all fighting to tell stories. You have to… — Denise Mina Copy Share Image
“A people that doesn't live at the center of the world, as defined and described by its poets and storytellers, is in… — Ursula K. Le Guin Copy Share Image
“Storytellers have as profound a purpose as any who are charged to guide and transform human lives. I knew it as an… — Nancy Mellon Copy Share Image
We go through life owned by the stories we tell ourselves which are often historic and charged narratives - things we've learnt… — Derren Brown Copy Share Image
