retelling ought to prove formative, nurturing…

After I’d told her – the mall, the taxi, Cross stroking my hair – she said, ‘Did he kiss you?’ ‘John and Martin totally…

— Curtis Sittenfeld

“She's bewitched you! What good could she do us?" "Well, now... We could do some good for her .”

— Mariah Marsden

It's so easy to fetishise the dead. We rose-tint or villainise them, and so often in the retelling they are saints or sinners, rather…

— Sophie Dahl

We humans are different - our brains are built not to fix memories in stone but rather to transform them, our recollections in their…

— Mira Bartok

What I thought was so great about Rise [of the Planet of the Apes ] was that it wasn't a retelling; it was an…

— Matt Reeves

“Alice: I didn't know that cheshire cats grinned. In fact, I didn't know that cats could grin. Duchess: They can, and most of 'em…

— Rod Espinosa

“I did not know I was to be outdone by a little magic boy and his tricks,” he said. “I salute you, magician.” He…

— Katherine Arden

You and me Haymitch.Very cozy.Picnics, birthdays, long winter nights sitting around the fire retelling old Hunger Games tale. -Peeta Mellark

— Suzanne Collins

I think the big thing is the fairy tale. It's taking old folk fairy tales and retelling them in modern day. I think it's…

— Lily Collins

“The best stories, however, are living things, and as much as we may cherish the original, the true act of love comes in the…

— Anne Boyd Rioux

It's strange how memory gets twisted and pulled like taffy in its retelling, how a single event can mean something different to everyone present.

— Lisa Unger

As the great philosopher George Santayana would have said, 'those who cannot remember the past . . . should simply read Jan Van Meter's…

— Mo Rocca

Roecker sure is a romantic about certain things, like art and music, though you might not know it from watching Live Freaky! Die Freaky!,…

— John Roecker

“Australian Aborigines say that the big stories — the stories worth telling and retelling, the ones in which you may find the meaning of…

— Robert Moss

“The embroidery came later, in the retelling, as the story was told again and again by the men, taking on its own character as…

— S.U. Pacat