the announcement that you are going to tell a good story (and the chuckle that precedes it) is always a dangerous opening. — Margot Asquith Copy Share Image
Life ... is a tale Told by an idiot, full of sound and fury, Signifying nothing. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“To live is to travel, on a voyage more epic than the odysseys of myth - not from place to place, but… — T.L. Rese Copy Share Image
Myths are, in fact...neither primitive nor untrue. They are, rather, a kind of poetry that helps us make sense of the world… — Stephen H. Furrer Copy Share Image
No myth dies harder, and none is more regularly debunked by the facts, than the one about international sports contributing to international… — Alistair Cooke Copy Share Image
“News organizations are coy about admitting that what they present us with each day are minuscule extracts of narratives whose true shape… — Alain de Botton Copy Share Image
The idea that an author can extricate her or his own ongoing life experience from the tale being written is a conceit… — Steven Erikson Copy Share Image
I've written over 100 short stories. You could say I'm obsessed with short stories. — Nicholas Royle Copy Share Image
“Our imaginings (if they are ours) should be based in our own lives and experiences, all our memories. But all of our… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
“I earn the magic of words by writing. I learn the myth of worlds by imagining.” — Toba Beta Copy Share Image
That shoreline where the island of knowing meets the unfathomable sea of our own being is the landscape of myth. — William Irwin Thompson Copy Share Image
Almost any tale of our doings is comic. We are bottomlessly comic to each other. Even the most adored and beloved person… — Iris Murdoch 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
I've always felt that the traditional novel doesn't give you enough information about the narrator, and I think it's important to know… — W. G. Sebald Copy Share Image
“He reads histories and mythologies and fairy tales, wondering why it seems that only girls are ever swept away from their mundane… — Erin Morgenstern Copy Share Image
Expedition EVEREST adds a new dimension to our storytelling in Disney's Animal Kingdom. It's a thrilling adventure themed to the folklore of… — Joe Rohde Copy Share Image
“Sometimes a homeland becomes a tale. We love the story because it is about our homeland and we love our homeland even… — Refaat Alareer Copy Share Image
I get people saying, 'Opera is too large a canvas for me. I don't love it. I love movies that feel almost… — Jeff Perry Copy Share Image
We live immersed in narrative, recounting and reassessing the meaning of our past actions, anticipating the outcome of our future projects, situating… — Peter Brooks Copy Share Image
“And strange were the tales of the pond in the meadow, And eager we listened with eyes opened wide To Those tales… — J.R. Withers Copy Share Image
We learn that our lives find narrative form neither in the tired, familiar slogans of our captains nor in the symmetries of… — Amitava Kumar Copy Share Image
