“Your narrative may fail to grip if you haven't taken any care to find out how well or badly your audience member… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
“but the fact is that New York is as much a myth as a place, and because we all participate in that… — Siri Hustvedt Copy Share Image
One of my ambitions has been to go back to what those great authors were doing then ... to bridge that sensibility… — Carlos Ruiz Zafon Copy Share Image
When I pick up the guitar, it's a melody, and that's what drives the lyrics. It's bits and pieces of truth, but… — Ray LaMontagne Copy Share Image
Before I came along, my field was dominated by myth, superstition, deceit, and outright fraud. I overcame it by the simple application… — Arthur Jones Copy Share Image
Everything feels so personal when you're an actor because you're so open and vulnerable, and you have to trust your director to… — Miriam Shor Copy Share Image
“I was someone hungry for stories; more specifically, I was someone who craved after facts...I was, you see, at the start of… — Arlene J. Chai Copy Share Image
As a generalization, fantasy writing has leaned more on political storytelling the more it's tried to escape the inevitable influence of Middle-earth,… — Ross Douthat Copy Share Image
I met Laura Morton through a friend who had hired her to help her write her own story. Though Laura is chock-full… — Randi Zuckerberg Copy Share Image
“One of the greatest myths in the world–and the phrase “greatest myths” is just a fancy way of saying “big fat lies”–is… — Lemony Snicket Copy Share Image
“Myth, in any culture, is the working out of present anxieties against a backdrop of a time (and sometimes place) removed from… — M. G. DuPree Copy Share Image
I find it only natural for a storyteller to be interested in storytelling and, for anyone who spends the better part of… — Norman Lock Copy Share Image
“Zac dangled his legs off the edge of the building, hanging onto every word I said as though I were some old… — Ashley Newell Copy Share Image
I think the idea that television has evolved to this place of real thematic richness and the fact that you no longer… — Damon Lindelof Copy Share Image
I always have difficulty with the Greek tragic plays. I think the difficulty one has - which is a serious problem -… — Derek Walcott Copy Share Image
“All stories are lessons. Fairy tales have a moral: Stay on the path. Don't trust wolves. Don't steal things, not even things… — Holly Black Copy Share Image
I grew up in a society with a very ancient and strong oral storytelling tradition. I was told stories, as a child,… — Khaled Hosseini Copy Share Image
“It is a law of the story-teller's art that he does not tell a story. It is the listener who tells it.… — Melville Davisson Post Copy Share Image
I've always said there are four words that every child in the world knows, and those are, "Tell me a story,." Even… — Don Hewitt Copy Share Image
“People are hardwired to listen to stories. Stories are the way human knowledge was passed down before the written word. Storytelling is… — Akash Karia Copy Share Image
“Writers use narratives to select from everything there is, and make contexts by putting the pieces into relation; that’s what writers do,… — Paul Shepheard Copy Share Image
The history of storytelling isn't one of simply entertaining the masses but of also advising, instructing, challenging the status quo. — Therese Fowler Copy Share Image
“It aspires to being a modernized fairy tale, in which the wonderment and joy are retained and the heartaches and nightmares are… — L. Frank Baum Copy Share Image
“The telling and hearing of stories is a bonding ritual that breaks through illusions of separateness and activates a deep sense of… — Annette Simmons Copy Share Image
We have always put the quest for balance at the center of our storytelling, whether it is the struggle to find it… — Bryan Konietzko Copy Share Image
Gareth [Edwards] was very open to just shaping the performances and the scenes to fit what was happening with the actors and… — Alan Tudyk Copy Share Image
“It took some time to realize just how important it is to love your own story. Even if it's not some perfectly… — B.L. Berry Copy Share Image
I'm a visual filmmaker so the camera is a big part of my storytelling tool and it's something that I really rely… — James Wan Copy Share Image
'Game of Thrones' is the broadest of narratives. I don't know if anyone in the U.S. has done a story on such… — Alex Graves Copy Share Image
I really do think of it in moral terms. I think that we can't kid ourselves that the storytelling impulse is innocent… — Lynn Coady Copy Share Image
“Memory is not a storage place but a story we tell ourselves in retrospect. As such, it is made of storytelling materials:… — Noam Shpancer Copy Share Image
The technology can change, but storytelling remains the same. It's just a digital world now instead of an analog world, but now… — David Lynch Copy Share Image
A 90-minute time frame is not long enough to tell a good female story, and that's why long-format television has become so… — Frances McDormand Copy Share Image
For little boys are rancorous When robbed of any myth, And spiteful and cantankerous To all their kin and kith. But little… — Phyllis McGinley Copy Share Image
Myths are, in fact...neither primitive nor untrue. They are, rather, a kind of poetry that helps us make sense of the world… — Stephen H. Furrer Copy Share Image
I really enjoy blocking and staging. I think most of visual storytelling is camera placement and how to stage action around the… — Hiro Murai Copy Share Image
Think for a minute, darling: in fairy tales it's always the children who have the fine adventures. The mothers have to stay… — Audrey Niffenegger Copy Share Image
Every bit as visceral and hypnotic as its award-winning predecessor, On the Ropes is a tour-de-force of fluid, yet detailed storytelling. — Dave Gibbons Copy Share Image
I always felt and still feel that fairy tales have an emotional truth that is so deep that there are few things… — Alice Hoffman Copy Share Image
“Good storytelling lets the audience relive events in the present so they can understand the forces, choices, and emotions that led the… — John Truby Copy Share Image
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