If a secret history of books could be written, and the author's private thoughts and meanings noted down alongside of his story,… — William Makepeace Thackeray Copy Share Image
“Why would you save me? Because you, mouse, can tell Gregory a story. Stories are light. Light is precious in a world… — Kate DiCamillo Copy Share Image
“The images of myth must be the daemonic guardians, omnipresent and unnoticed, which protect the growth of the young mind, and guide… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
In college, I became interested in folk tales and fairy tales. Gradually I became more and more interested in the underlying meaning… — Brian Froud Copy Share Image
“She thought, instead, with longing of more books—of buying books—of slipping into a narrative of other people’s lives. That was release.” — Peter Straub Copy Share Image
Anxiety is your creativity turned into a weapon that you use to beat yourself up. And this is because anxiety is mostly… — Baron Vaughn Copy Share Image
“Horror stories are not just about fear, they are about choices, consequences, and the darkness hidden inside human minds. Stories like Lost… — Lost Life Fan Copy Share Image
It is out of reality that the most peculiar tale of all is born ... Some call me the Elder Granny, others… — Hans Christian Andersen Copy Share Image
I've always felt that the writing I responded to most - the novels and stories that compelled me, that felt like they… — Jonathan Lethem Copy Share Image
“I needed a story. Something local, but juicy. And more than just newsworthy. I was holding out for gasp-worthy. And I found… — Elyse Friedman Copy Share Image
“When I started school in 1958 there were no books written by Aboriginals in the school system and everything about Native life… — Rick Revelle Copy Share Image
When I was in New Orleans, I was in a grocery store and a woman came up to me and she said,… — Kathy Bates Copy Share Image
“I have heard it said that if you tell a lie often enough, loudly enough, and long enough, the myth will become… — Dave Ramsey Copy Share Image
“Instead of celebrating with a cake (too full of poisonous refined sugars) and presents (too materialistic), my mother would come into my… — Molly Harper Copy Share Image
When I became convinced that the universe is natural, that all the ghosts and gods are myths, there entered into my brain,… — Robert Green Ingersoll Copy Share Image
“This is the squalid, or moving, part of the story, and the scene changes. The people change, too. I'm still around, but… — J.D. Salinger Copy Share Image
“The myth of their total responsibility arose during postwar trials in the Federal Republic of Germany as a way to protect the… — Timothy Snyder Copy Share Image
Up to 1870, it was equally said of France and of Italy that they possessed no folk-tales. Yet, within fifteen years from… — Joseph Jacobs Copy Share Image
The failures of other genres to provide an emotional connection with some of their characters and narratives gives memoir a toehold. — Mary Karr Copy Share Image
Myth, legend, and ritual ... function to maintain a status quo. That makes them singularly bad in coping with change, indeed counterproductive,… — Elizabeth Janeway Copy Share Image
“I’ve bemused you with these tales of the devil and his ancient offer of knowledge, that he uses what seems so good… — Vaughn Heppner Copy Share Image
Once I got into college, I discovered literature - in particular, multicultural literature. I just started to understand the power of story… — Matt de la Pena Copy Share Image
“People are moved more by stories than by logic. Ease listeners into the new or unknown by building the logic of your… — Alexander Osterwalder Copy Share Image
I'm interested in ways that digital interfaces can be utilized as powerful narrative devices, and to engage people in new and exciting… — Aaron Koblin Copy Share Image
The passion for the story is the wind in your narrative sails. Begin at the heart. We must hear the heartbeat of… — Patricia Lee Gauch Copy Share Image
A short story is "a short prose narrative, requiring from a half hour, to one or two hours in its perusal...having conceived,… — Edgar Allan Poe Copy Share Image
I just always loved the storytelling aspect. Even with the production that's happening right now in music, I still think the core… — Cassadee Pope Copy Share Image
In an age where television is viewed as the best medium to 'tell stories,' narrative often stands in for substance on would-be… — Michelle Dean Copy Share Image
My dad's a Pentecostal minister, meaning that he's full of charisma. If he's telling a story about Noah's ark, you best know… — John Boyega Copy Share Image
People have been saying the novel is dead for as far back as I can remember. The novel will never die, but… — Rosamond Lehmann Copy Share Image
The L Word reaffirmed that good storytelling has a way of creating community. Fans everywhere have been connecting with each other online,… — Jennifer Beals Copy Share Image
Over the centuries we have transformed the ancient myths and folk tales and made them into the fabric of our lives. Consciously… — Jack Zipes Copy Share Image
The lumpiness of 'The Good Lie's progression - from infancy to adulthood, and from ethnic horror to gentle social comedy to a… — Richard Corliss Copy Share Image
In the tale, in the telling, we are all one blood. Take the tale in your teeth, then, and bite till the… — Ursula K. Le Guin Copy Share Image
I am well-nigh resolv'd to write no more tales but merely to dream when I have a mind to, not stopping to… — H. P. Lovecraft Copy Share Image
My life has been the antithesis of that book 'The Secret'. I've always been interested in doing what I do. I love… — Aaron Stanford Copy Share Image
“I must warn you dear reader, that in this story both wonderful and terrible events transpire. It is also the sort of… — John Mark Green Copy Share Image
As social animals, we need to exchange juicy tales about someone - to connect with one another. For millions of years our… — Helen Fisher Copy Share Image
There are some tales not for telling, whether because they are too long, too precious, too laughable, too painful, too easy to… — Emma Donoghue Copy Share Image
If you look at photojournalism, it's largely driven by current events... always chasing a crisis or disaster. I follow a narrative that… — Edward Burtynsky Copy Share Image
