When I walk into a room, I know my storytelling has value and I have to sell my idea. I have to… — Mara Brock Akil Copy Share Image
That went on for a long time: telling various tales from my experience being anorexic and bulimic, and having people say, 'You've… — Marti Noxon Copy Share Image
My grandmother was born in 1900, and she would regale me with tales I call 'Little House on the Prairie' tales, but… — David Alan Grier Copy Share Image
How it's Done is a richly woven tale of a young woman who discovers what it really means to be an adult.… — Han Nolan Copy Share Image
Everything is a tale, Martin. What we believe, what we know, what we remember, even what we dream. Everything is a story,… — Carlos Ruiz Zafon Copy Share Image
I just come up with the stories and write them as well as I can. There's not really a great deal of… — Iain Banks Copy Share Image
“Rain's pouring and it's too cold. All people bored and I even accord What to do but spell a tale told: So… — Ana Claudia Antunes Copy Share Image
I learned that myth doesn’t mean a lie; it means a traditional story that tells you something about people and their worldview… — John Green Copy Share Image
“The operation would be in a week...I didn't know if I would survive. How I longed to go back to reading! There… — Hassan Blasim Copy Share Image
“The fundamental purpose of storytelling is to pass the time, which is infinite, slow, and weighs heavy in our hands. When the… — Michael Chabon Copy Share Image
“There was a girl, and her uncle sold her. Put like that it seems so simple. No man, proclaimed Donne, is an… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
There are stories within stories, whispered in the quiet of the night, shouted above the roar of the day, and played out… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
I loved ghost stories. I love horror stories. I love all of that stuff, but I really yearn for something to actually… — Jane Goldman Copy Share Image
I've always thought that one of the things that the Internet and the gaming world permits as a narrative technique is to… — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image
“Storytelling is an ancient art that rarely receives the respect it deserves. Is it even possible to find someone these days with… — Erika Eichenseer Copy Share Image
Through our Building Bridges dialogues at Accenture, where we have brought together people from diverse backgrounds to have sometimes difficult conversations, such… — Julie Sweet Copy Share Image
“Into an allegory a man can put only what he already knows; in a myth he puts what he does not yet… — C.S. Lewis Copy Share Image
Persons attempting to find a motive in this narrative will be prosecuted; persons attempting to find a moral in it will be… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
'Meadowland' was the reason I got 'The Handmaid's Tale,' and probably my experience in cinematography helped. Everything was like a stepping stone… — Reed Morano Copy Share Image
“Any particular term—myth, legend, saga, folktale, and so forth—tends to be used in so many differing ways by different people that without… — R.W.L. Moberly Copy Share Image
For me, all fiction is about prizing the logic of metaphors - which is the logic of narratives in general - over… — Ken Liu Copy Share Image
The more intelligent the storytelling becomes and the deeper the character development, people will realize in film and television, like they do… — Robert LaSardo Copy Share Image
“For a once renowned woman who loved telling tales of dodging bullets, wielding grenades and subverting dogs trained to kill, Christine's story… — Clare Mulley Copy Share Image
Our subconscious works in metaphors, stories, and word play. That's why a particular story or movie may mean more to some people… — Kristine Kathryn Rusch Copy Share Image
“Beyond the picket fences and the oil wells, the happy endings, and the fairy tales, is the reality of shattered lives and… — Tim McGraw Copy Share Image
The Italian prose tale had begun to exercise that influence as early as Chaucer's time: but circumstances and atmosphere were as yet… — George Saintsbury Copy Share Image
“Too bad for the storytellers. Too bad for the sense makers, the apologists, that nothing, then or ever, nothing was inevitable. It's… — Jincy Willett Copy Share Image
It's great to work in film and TV, and I love it, but there's nothing that can replace that instantaneous storytelling you… — Pablo Schreiber Copy Share Image
“I wanted to tell her that I was getting better, because that was supposed to be the narrative of illness: It was… — John Green Copy Share Image
"A Tale of Three Cities" is a tribute to our parents' generation, who escaped from city to city in search of their… — Mabel Cheung Copy Share Image
In the fall of 1989, I was writing 600-word columns at the 'Herald.' My heart always was in long-form narrative writing, though.… — Charlie Pierce Copy Share Image
But tales like this must not be taken as truth. You must remind yourself that it is hard to tell where truth… — Arlene J. Chai Copy Share Image
Storytelling is always evolving, but if you allow people with new voices and perspectives to come in, you open audiences up to… — Jay Ellis Copy Share Image
Joe and I have always been drawn to ensemble storytelling. We like the idea of telling stories from multiple characters' points of… — Anthony Russo Copy Share Image
I'm always a little nervous when someone comes from other media into writing comics. It's a unique storytelling form, and it requires… — Brian Stelfreeze Copy Share Image
I know you've all heard the advice, "Show, don't tell." The best writers don't tell you, and quite frankly they don't just… — Josh Lanyon Copy Share Image
When you think about it, media's the intersection of content and technology - it's all about storytelling, like photography and the camera. — Bob Iger Copy Share Image
I think a culture can really be elevated through the arts, and it's always a dream come true when I come across… — Nazanin Boniadi Copy Share Image
There's still formulaic stuff on network television, but there's also more of an opportunity to have your way with storytelling, especially in… — Amy Hill Copy Share Image
With some songs, I have written narratives or I've tried to carry it through, but generally the things that were more genius,… — Stephen Malkmus Copy Share Image
