I don't have any great first job tales: I've never worked on a tramp steamer or in a coal mine or anything… — Mary Gordon Copy Share Image
What I'm really proud of Beyonce and Solange, they understand the importance of creating the narrative. It's all about the narrative and… — Mathew Knowles Copy Share Image
“Good ink, good parchment, precious time - and all for the sake of a mouse in a glove.” Cian Brydydd Mawr smiled… — Hugh Lupton Copy Share Image
“We live in our tales of ourselves. . . and ignore as best we can the contradictions, and the lapses, and the… — Gregory Maguire Copy Share Image
I heard a computer scientist the other day refer to playing with the Kinect as 'storytelling.' At first I thought that sounded… — Susan Orlean Copy Share Image
“It is our responsibility to keep telling these tales--to tell them in a way that they teach and entertain and give meaning… — Brian Jay Jones Copy Share Image
I grew up in a place where everybody was a storyteller, but nobody wrote. It was that kind of Celtic, storytelling tradition:… — Irvine Welsh Copy Share Image
Don't despair for story's future or turn curmudgeonly over the rise of video games or reality TV. The way we experience story… — Jonathan Gottschall Copy Share Image
Don't ever let the other stuff get in the way of your inherent skills as a kick-butt storyteller. Move the reader, make… — James Dashner Copy Share Image
“Yes, that's so,' said Sam. 'And we shouldn't be here at all, if we'd known more about it before we started. But… — J.R.R. Tolkien Copy Share Image
There's a big confusion in this country over what we want versus what we need," Morrie said. "You need food, you want… — Mitch Albom Copy Share Image
I consider music to be storytelling, melody and rhythm. A lot of hip-hop has broken music down. There are no instruments and… — Jack White Copy Share Image
I was born in the era of the novel. I've written many, as well as collections of poetry, and essays for mouthing… — Julianna Baggott Copy Share Image
If you do really good storytelling, things that people also might anticipate and that they might have seen before - there's a… — Kimberly Peirce Copy Share Image
“For anyone who wants to understand the art of storytelling, this film [The Hunt for Red October] should suffice; one wonders why… — Muriel Barbery Copy Share Image
“Picture to yourself the most beautiful girl imaginable! She was so beautiful that there would be no point, in view of my… — Walter Moers Copy Share Image
A coalition with Tories and Liberal Democrats together is a golden opportunity to create the sort of planning reform that means not… — Michael Gove Copy Share Image
If I'm writing a radio thing that's narrative, it's quite nice to stop for an hour and write a load of garbage… — Tim Key Copy Share Image
Many fairy tales and ballads present us with animals who are nobler, truer, and kinder than the greedy human beings who desire… — Delia Sherman Copy Share Image
The truth about life was that nothing ever ended until you died, and even then you just left a whole bunch of… — Nick Hornby Copy Share Image
“Morris liked to share he books with others. Sometimes it was a favorite that everyone loved, and other times he found a… — William Joyce Copy Share Image
But I suspect that all writers come up with premises of some kind, fragments of narrative or scenarios, in the course of… — Nick Hornby Copy Share Image
For some reason, I write about crash-landed spaceships quite a lot and my wife is sick of hearing of hearing my ideas… — Erica Brown Copy Share Image
“Step by step the narrative split into a thousand stories, as if it had entered a gallery of mirrors, its identity fragmented… — Carlos Ruiz Zafón Copy Share Image
I'm not a sci-fi lover; I wasn't from the start. So perhaps I miss that passion for other worlds, other dimensions, that… — Paul McGann Copy Share Image
The original and very basic 'Law & Order' series has always seemed to me to be 100-percent exposition, with no filler, no… — Tom Shales Copy Share Image
I see all art as a complement to telling people's stories. I'm in the storytelling business. I believe that the humanity that… — Oprah Winfrey Copy Share Image
Curious things, habits. People themselves never knew they had them. [Witness for the Prosecution, also published in The Hound of Death and… — Agatha Christie Copy Share Image
“I come from a family of Cherokee master storytellers. Listening to stories, reading them, and creating new tales is my life. These… — Louise Ann Barton Copy Share Image
Freud was one of the greatest influences on me. He made myth into psychiatry, and I've been trying to turn it back… — Ross Macdonald Copy Share Image
It's hard enough to tell good stories about people who analyze information for a living. It's even harder to do a good… — Henry Bromell Copy Share Image
“In a story, you must always listen for the voice you cannot hear, the one that has been ignored or silenced. In… — Patricia Storace Copy Share Image
Mother didn't understand that children aren't frightened by stories; that their lives are full of far more frightening things than those contained… — Kate Morton Copy Share Image
For me, storytelling is what I love to do and that's my life's work. Football is not my life's work. It's just… — Martellus Bennett Copy Share Image
It's often lost in most Silicon Valley startups, the importance of storytelling when most people are thinking about they assemble their team… — Brock Pierce Copy Share Image
When I was little, I made up my own fairy tales, and the ghostly echo of Once upon a time shapes all… — Justine Larbalestier Copy Share Image
I have definitely gone through my ups and downs and faced my adversity and my nay-sayers, but managed to do all right.… — Steve Nash Copy Share Image
Let children have tales of the imagination, scenes laid in other lands and other times; heroic adventures, hairbreadth escapes, delicious fairy tales,… — Charlotte Mason Copy Share Image
Crafting a piece of gripping, narrative true crime that engages the world is not that different from crafting a piece of crime… — Karin Slaughter Copy Share Image
The persona in my stories may be truer to my "real" self than any alleged objective, factual "I" that I could replicate… — Norman Lock Copy Share Image
![“It is our responsibility to keep telling these tales--to tell them in a way that they teach and entertain and give meaning to our lives,' he [Jim] said later. 'This is not merely an obligation, it's something we must do because we love doing it.” quote by Brian Jay Jones](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/365/brian-jay-jones-43390_creativity_it-is-our-responsibility-to-keep-telling_1516865.jpg)
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