“Magic is the most interesting art because people not necessarily want to learn to paint after they see a great painting, but… — Amit Kalantri Copy Share Image
As the Tories sit back with their fingers in their ears, we'll continue to offer solutions that show how we will make… — Rachel Reeves Copy Share Image
Stories,' the green-eyed Sigrid said, unperturbed, 'are like prayers. It does not matter when you begin, or when you end, only that… — Catherynne M. Valente Copy Share Image
My family were great story-tellers. My mum was one of 12 and they were all fighting to tell stories. You have to… — Denise Mina Copy Share Image
“Storytellers have as profound a purpose as any who are charged to guide and transform human lives. I knew it as an… — Nancy Mellon Copy Share Image
“A people that doesn't live at the center of the world, as defined and described by its poets and storytellers, is in… — Ursula K. Le Guin Copy Share Image
We go through life owned by the stories we tell ourselves which are often historic and charged narratives - things we've learnt… — Derren Brown Copy Share Image
“The rest, but a small part, is fiction, part of the mosaic of storytelling that a writer must employ to bring life… — Glenn Meade Copy Share Image
“Fantasy elevates ordinary and eternal problems of young people into stories via the language of myth. It turns “No one really knows… — Erin Bow Copy Share Image
“My mother had comforted me with tales ever since I was small. Sometimes they helped me peel a problem like an onion,… — Anita Amirrezvani Copy Share Image
The music that I first fell in love with was American music, really. Nothing against British acts - I love them and… — George Ezra Copy Share Image
“A few mad exaggerations, alright, within a couple of days: swear to fucking god, they were like throwing grenades and pulling out… — China Miéville Copy Share Image
“In Russian fairy tales, the narrative flows a little differently. In those stories, you won’t find a tale for Cinderella, one for… — Catherynne M. Valente Copy Share Image
Once upon a time fairy tales were told to audiences of young and old alike. It is only in the last century… — Terri Windling Copy Share Image
“All of the great mythologies and much of the mythic story-telling of the world are from the male point of view. When… — Joseph Campbell Copy Share Image
People have always told tales. Long before humanity learned to write and gradually became literate, everybody told tales to everybody else and… — Gunter Grass Copy Share Image
There are no stories without meaning. And I am one of those men who can find it even when others fail to… — Umberto Eco Copy Share Image
“Things need not have happened to be true. Tales and dreams are the shadow-truths that will endure when mere facts are dust… — Michael R. Underwood Copy Share Image
I've spoken before on how the art of storytelling has been lost a bit. I definitely feel 'Empire' is helping to reprogram… — Ne-Yo Copy Share Image
I like storytelling. We all have an active thing that we do that gives us self-esteem, that makes us proud; it's necessary.… — Paul Zindel Copy Share Image
Having made films, I know very well that the scope of the average 90- to 120-minute movie is about the same narrative… — Paul Auster Copy Share Image
For so long, I just let people surmise what they would about my life and my choices, and other people have written… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The old handbook on writing is 'Write what you know.' I come from an autobiographical starting place almost all of the time,… — Rodney Crowell Copy Share Image
You have to think about good storytelling and characters first. Then hopefully, the rest of that stuff will follow, some more than… — Pete Docter Copy Share Image
“Am I boring you? I don't really care, I suppose, but I'll be more comfortable if I knew all this interested you.… — John Barth Copy Share Image
The continuous narrative of existence is a lie. There is no continuous narrative, there are lit-up moments, and the rest is dark. — Jeanette Winterson Copy Share Image
There's a reason that all societies and cultures and small bands of humans engage in myth-making. Fundamentally, it is to help us… — Philipp Meyer Copy Share Image
Storytelling is powerful; film particularly. We can know a lot of things intellectually, but humans really live on storytelling. Primarily with ourselves;… — Richard Linklater Copy Share Image
When writing, you can't break physical rules. You can't have people come back from the dead. That's cheating. I am a kind… — Malcolm Gladwell Copy Share Image
Eminem has been someone that I've always considered the greatest ever, to ever do it. You know what I mean? In every… — Joyner Lucas Copy Share Image
I love storytelling so for me to get behind a story and get in there early in its infancy and kind of… — Josh Hutcherson Copy Share Image
Please write Narrative Report abut >> An aciedcnt ?please I need it now and it should be 10 lines and be nice… — James Copy Share Image
I remember that the day I finished 'The Angels,' part three of 'The Book of Laughter and Forgetting', I was terribly proud… — Milan Kundera Copy Share Image
I do notice that I spend a lot of all my time steeped in different forms of myth, such as English folk… — Jez Butterworth Copy Share Image
People who experience themselves as authentic are also experiencing themselves as myth, but that's not the narrative they're going with. — Rachel Kushner Copy Share Image
Dialogue in fiction should be reserved for the culminating moments and regarded as the spray into which the great wave of narrative… — Edith Wharton Copy Share Image
“Greater skill is needed to create a myth than it is to awkwardly present the truth subjectively, or raw form. It doesn't… — VD Copy Share Image
Things have character. So I'm interested in how the character of the thing might function as a protagonist in what isn't a… — Jessica Stockholder Copy Share Image
I've always been a happy-go-lucky person. I haven't got any dark tales, I didn't draw on my own past, I'm from a… — Vicky McClure Copy Share Image
Our culture thrives on black-and-white narratives, clearly defined emotions, easy endings, and so, this thrust into complexity exhausts. — Caroline Knapp Copy Share Image
