“the whole story was in fact a legend, that is, the burial and discovery of an empty tomb were tales that later… — Bart D. Ehrman Copy Share Image
I am familiar with the Odiyan legend, as my mother used to tell me that her grandmother would narrate the Odiyan tales… — M. Jayachandran Copy Share Image
If you want to make your children brilliant, tell them fairy tales. If you want to make them more brilliant, tell them… — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
I'm trying to make perfect moments. And those generate meaning. If you go deep enough in how to make a moment, very… — Ira Glass Copy Share Image
To be simple, I would say a story has to have a bit of narrative, if only "she says," and then enough… — Lydia Davis Copy Share Image
“Charlie,” she said as she leaned on her desk just before me. “Most mothers read fairy tale stories to their children –… — Jamie Magee Copy Share Image
No matter how carefully records are kept and filed and computerized, they grow fuzzy with time. Stories grow by accretion. Tales accumulate--like… — Isaac Asimov Copy Share Image
Definitely they write themselves. It's an amazing experience. It's like the characters have come alive and are sitting on my shoulder talking… — R. A. Salvatore Copy Share Image
“As you see the patterns and meaning emerge in your own personal experience of the world dream, you begin to realize that… — Carolyn Elliott Copy Share Image
My idea in terms of managing a narrative, or in thinking in my creative life, is that you could easily argue that… — Tommy Lee Jones Copy Share Image
I learned to separate the story from the writing, probably the most important thing that any storyteller has to learn-that there are… — Orson Scott Card Copy Share Image
I'm working on my own life story. I don't mean I'm putting it together; no, I'm taking it apart. If you'd wanted… — Margaret Atwood Copy Share Image
“Kvothe continued, smiling himself “I see you laugh. Very well, for simplicity’s sake, let us assume I am the center of creation.… — Patrick Rothfuss Copy Share Image
“Cherokee stories have been passed down through many generations. Storytelling is an art form. Storytellers are actors, singers, dancers, and mimes who… — Rennay Craats Copy Share Image
And it's only the beginning of a new era of exceptional Star Wars storytelling; next year we'll release our first standalone movie… — Bob Iger Copy Share Image
Spike optioned my first book, 'Now the Hell Will Start,' and he trusted me to write the screenplay, too. That was an… — Brendan I. Koerner Copy Share Image
The novel form is about the protagonist's struggle to transform his arbitrary, fragmented, given experience into a narrative as meaningful as his… — Elif Batuman Copy Share Image
“...all I knew were novels. It gave me pause, for a moment, that all my reference points were fiction, that all my… — Rebecca Makkai Copy Share Image
Because there is less female storytelling, especially motherhood storytelling, there has been immense pressure on my storytelling to represent more people, and… — Catherine Reitman Copy Share Image
A man is always a teller of tales, he lives surrounded by his stories and the stories of others, he sees everything… — Jean-Paul Sartre Copy Share Image
I was a Spidey fan as a kid. I always liked the complexity and the teenaged angst that Spider-Man, Peter Parker, always… — Jack Coleman Copy Share Image
I did not think much what I was writing them for, except that I knew I wanted my next novel to be… — Nicholas Mosley Copy Share Image
There is enormous need for professionals who know how to tell stories with narrative punch and nuance, who can work proactively and… — Fred Ritchin Copy Share Image
Electronic music lends itself to an abstract way of storytelling, so it keeps evolving. Theres a whole movement truly driving music further… — Hans Zimmer Copy Share Image
I've always loved the blues, ever since I was a kid. It has a depth to it that a lot of contemporary… — Nickolas Ashford Copy Share Image
With TV, your first draft just doesn't matter. It's a skeleton, and then there's draft after draft after draft, and so many… — Sarah Pinborough Copy Share Image
Let us go forth, the tellers of tales, and seize whatever prey the heart long for, and have no fear. Everything exists,… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
My lyrics are more country - what I love is the storytelling and the structure, how tight the rhymes can be. But… — Maren Morris Copy Share Image
From the beginning of time, we've told stories, Shamans and Medicine People, and not to be pompous about it, but I feel… — Lynn Collins Copy Share Image
“What millions believe is often just fairy tales for children! The fabrications of the past are ridiculously accepted as the holies of… — Mehmet Murat ildan Copy Share Image
Everybody's always living in fiction just as much as children, but the way our stories are faked is curtailed by all sorts… — Claire Messud Copy Share Image
A central task for any campaign is to develop a narrative: a short, simple story explaining where we are, how we got… — George Monbiot Copy Share Image
“These dynamics are, Sedgwick argues, at the center of the "paranoid Gothic"; narratives like Frankenstein or Hogg's Confessions of a Justified Sinner,… — Noah Berlatsky Copy Share Image
Even when the facts are available, most people seem to prefer the legend, and refuse to believe the truth when it in… — John Mason Brown Copy Share Image
The novelist in me is probably hiding behind all the stories I write, looking for ways to connect them and continue the… — Joanna Scott Copy Share Image
I've had a fairy tale life. I had a perfect family, a beautiful childhood, an incredible upbringing. I lived a lot of… — John Stamos Copy Share Image
I think it's intelligent, emotional, character-rich storytelling - at the core, I think those are the most important elements, and I think… — Channing Dungey Copy Share Image
Tragedy is a great storytelling form. It worked extremely well for Shakespeare. It worked extremely well for Jim Cameron with 'Titanic.' — Carlton Cuse Copy Share Image
For me and my storytelling and the way that I embrace stories in the way that I embrace characters, I desperately needed… — Will Smith Copy Share Image
To try to write a grand cosmical drama leads necessarily to myth. To try to let knowledge substitute ignorance in increasingly larger… — Hannes Alfven Copy Share Image
