“In a nation whose great informing myth is that it has no great informing myth, familiarity equaled timelessness” — David Foster Wallace Copy Share Image
The purpose of a storyteller is not to tell you how to think, but to give you questions to think upon. — Brandon Sanderson Copy Share Image
Fairy tales are my natural language. I feel at ease telling fairy tales like a fish feels in water. I am totally… — Michel Ocelot Copy Share Image
People don't like the true and simple; they like fairy tales and humbug. — Edmond de Goncourt Copy Share Image
“Stories don't always have to end happily.. Sometimes it's just enough that they end.” — Terri Cheney Copy Share Image
“History is often made and buttressed by myths and folklore rather than facts.” — Daikichi Irokawa Copy Share Image
So maybe it wasn't the fairy tale. But those stories weren't real anyway. Mine were. — Sarah Dessen Copy Share Image
My mother used 'Cinderella' as the antidote of what was in store for me. — Catherine Oxenberg Copy Share Image
From earliest times, humans - explorers and thinkers - have wanted to figure out the shape of their world. Forever, the way… — Adam Savage Copy Share Image
We need time to relax and enjoy ourselves too, no matter how dark the story. The occasional humorous moment helps with that.… — Patrick Rothfuss Copy Share Image
Fiction connects: past and present; the great and the small; the surface with the depths. Fiction brings out the innermost, invisible springs… — Varley O'Connor Copy Share Image
“As the years progress and we experience more and more, the mini-narratives that make up our lives are distorted, corrupted, so that… — Michelle Richmond Copy Share Image
They were written on cheap blue notebooks bought by poor women. I'm interested in folk tales in the way that medicine and… — Alice Hoffman Copy Share Image
Storytelling was a way to see the world bigger than the one you were looking at, and that had great appeal for… — Robert Redford Copy Share Image
The protagonist of folktale is always, and intensely, a young person moving through ordeals into adult life. . . . and this… — Jill Paton Walsh Copy Share Image
Storytelling is our oldest form of remembering the promises we have made to one another and to our various gods, and the… — Jane Yolen Copy Share Image
“If anything is taught here, it is simply the charting of the life of someone who started out to somewhere—and went. I… — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
“Chasing your tale? Sometimes we relive past accomplishments, failures and or past relationships to the point of exhaustion. When we do this,… — Jason Versey Copy Share Image
When we come back to fantasy, I think we're actually coming back to the real bedrock of storytelling. Our national or international… — Robin Hobb Copy Share Image
“Fiction is written with reality and reality is written with fiction. We can write fiction because there is reality and we can… — C. JoyBell C Copy Share Image
“Someone needs to tell those tales. When the battles are fought and won and lost, when the pirates find their treasures and… — Erin Morgenstern Copy Share Image
“The fairy tale is accused of giving children a false impression of the world they live in. But I think no literature… — C.S. Lewis Copy Share Image
Entranced by the denotative power of words to define, to order, to represent the things around us, weve overlooked the songful dimension… — David Abram Copy Share Image
“The recasting of the Origin Myth as a story about the perils of disobedience precipitated a kind of decoupling of scripture from… — Daniel Waterman Copy Share Image
![“Entranced by the denotative power of words to define, to order, to represent the things around us, weve overlooked the songful dimension of language so obvious to our oral [storytelling] ancestors. Weve lost our ear for the music of language -- for the rhythmic, melodic layer of speech by which…” quote by David Abram](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/023/david-abram-15943_ancestor_entranced-by-the-denotative-power-of-wor_1198850.jpg)
