'Tales From Topographic Oceans' is like a woman's padded bra. The cover looks good, but when you peel off the padding, there's… — Rick Wakeman Copy Share Image
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I think of a myth as a story that helps you explain all the different pieces of your life. In that broad… — Lewis Hyde Copy Share Image
The narrative of our lives is a total construct. We get to choose what that is. That is something I've realized as… — Jason Segel Copy Share Image
Ever since childhood, I've been interested in history and myth. Not just the facts and figures of the past, but everything that… — Anne Fortier Copy Share Image
“Your key message is the one thing you want your audience to take away. It is what you want to convey and… — Calvin Niles Copy Share Image
When you’re living in the moment, you’re living in the moment; whatever that moment is, that’s your reality. Everything else is a… — Steven Heller Copy Share Image
“I have worked with that ancient, fragmented, and incomplete narrative, with its barbarians, dragons, sunken cities, reeds and memory marks, twin-bladed warrior… — Samuel R. Delany Copy Share Image
“Well, did anything interesting happen today?' [my father] would begin. And even before the daily question was completed I had eagerly launched… — Doris Kearns Goodwin Copy Share Image
“Beauty in life and fiction is a mixture of Fairy Tale and Tragedy. Men see a pretty face and want to claim… — Lori Jones Copy Share Image
You start with a generic body, but I think the first wall you hit with portraiture is comprised of history and storytelling… — Kiki Smith Copy Share Image
I have to say in premise 'Winter Journal' is really not a memoir. And I don't even think of it as an… — Paul Auster Copy Share Image
“Some years ago I had a conversation with a man who thought that writing and editing fantasy books was a rather frivolous… — Terri Windling Copy Share Image
If there is such a thing as a universal--and I wasn't ready to throw all of mine out the window--it's that there… — Clare Vanderpool Copy Share Image
Storytelling is at the heart of life... In finding our own story, we assemble all the parts of ourselves. Whatever kind of… — Marion Woodman Copy Share Image
“What follows is the first in a collection of tales, primarily of one tixie family, who recorded their exploits more than two… — Jack Borden Copy Share Image
Most people think its sex, money, and drugs but Hip-Hop is about lyrics, storytelling, and everybody having a different style. That's just… — Rapsody Copy Share Image
The dogma of woman's complete historical subjection to men must be rated as one of the most fantastic myths ever created by… — Mary Ritter Beard Copy Share Image
Writers who can't invent stories often substitute style for narrative. They remind me of the painter who couldn't paint people, so he… — Bernard Malamud Copy Share Image
“-Dream up something wild and improbable. Something beautiful and full of monsters. -Beautiful and full of monsters? -All the best stories are.” — Laini Taylor Copy Share Image
Imagination is more important than knowledge, myth more than history and dreams more than facts. Hope always triumphs over experience and that… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The truth is, my folk-lore friends and my Saturday Reviewer differ with me on the important problem of the origin of folk-tales.… — Joseph Jacobs Copy Share Image
It's interesting to marry American musical traditions with the subtlety of English-style storytelling and folk singer-songwriters like Martin Carthy and Bert Jansch… — Johnny Flynn Copy Share Image
This unceasing interplay between experience and narrative is a uniquely human attribute. We are the storytellers, the ones who put life into… — Christina Baldwin Copy Share Image
Concentrate your narrative energy on the point of change. This is especially important for historical fiction. When your character is new to… — Hilary Mantel Copy Share Image
“Even if the story relating to some of them may not belong to literary history, it certainly does belong in the story… — Arthur Schnitzler Copy Share Image
My career as an author began as I saw it as a natural progression from music, as both music and books are… — Tom Fletcher Copy Share Image
I like that 'once upon a time' quality, where the telling of a tale has an elevated sense of story. There's a… — Erin Morgenstern Copy Share Image
When I got hurt, I wanted to develop my skills from a storytelling perspective, do the work, read books. Develop things. To… — Baron Davis Copy Share Image
A myth is, of course, not a fairy story. It is the presentation of facts belonging to one category in the idioms… — Gilbert Ryle Copy Share Image
“I’m writing a book, one letter at a time. After thirteen days, I just finished writing “Once upon a time.” Since it’s… — Jarod Kintz Copy Share Image
“Every story is a ride to some place and time other than here and now. Buried in an armchair, reclined on a… — A.A. Patawaran Copy Share Image
Poetry, above all is a series of intense moments its power is not in narrative. I'm not dealing with facts, I'm dealing… — Carol Ann Duffy Copy Share Image
“What happens when you don't know the truth but you can't believe the lies, when you can't find a way--through fact or… — Maria Goodin Copy Share Image
The forest has always been a place, in fairy tales and in Shakespeare, where you go and discover who you are. You… — David Farr Copy Share Image
Storytelling helps us understand each other, translate the issues of our times, and the tools of theater and film can be powerful… — Kevin Spacey Copy Share Image
[M]yths are not invented as stories are. Myths are inspired-they really are. They come from the same realm that dream comes from. — Joseph Campbell Copy Share Image
“A myth... is a metaphor for a mystery beyond human comprehension... A myth, in this way of thinking, is not an untruth… — Brian Godawa Copy Share Image
I'm not a go-out-with-a-band artist. I'm an intimate, storytelling folk artist. It guides the writing and makes for a concert that I'm… — Shawn Colvin Copy Share Image
Probably every subject is interesting if an avenue into it can be found that has humanity and that an ordinary person can… — William Zinsser Copy Share Image
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