... If we don't tell strange stories, when something strange happens we won't believe it. — Shannon Hale Copy Share Image
“I wonder how they convince their conscience believing in myths and fallacious stories.” — M.F. Moonzajer Copy Share Image
That inner narrative - the desire to understand the way I am - never really switches off. — John Grant Copy Share Image
If you’re too rigid in your thinking you may miss some wonderful opportunities for storytelling. — Vince Gilligan Copy Share Image
Be careful, boy. In some tales, the hero gets eaten by the monster after all . — Julie Kagawa Copy Share Image
It's the problem with fairy tales. From far away, they seem so perfect. But up close, they're just as complicated as real… — Soman Chainani Copy Share Image
“My #love stories have happy endings, because I stop the tales before dejection, dementia, and death occur.” — Jarod Kintz Copy Share Image
“This is how reason really works: through framing, metaphors, emotion, narratives, and imagery.” — George Lakoff Copy Share Image
Women don't question themselves when they enter into a story that has male characters, but men do question the validity of a… — Romola Garai Copy Share Image
If the Tories are serious about ensuring everyone has the opportunity to learn, regardless of their background, then the only thing they… — Angela Rayner Copy Share Image
The true novelist is one who understands the work as a continuous poem, is a myth-maker, and the wonder of the art… — Muriel Spark Copy Share Image
“... the story of my marriage, which is the great joy and astonishment of my life, is too much like a fairy… — Ann Patchett Copy Share Image
For storytelling purposes, there has to be conflict, but that doesn't mean the people have to be mean. I've never liked mean-spirited… — Michael Schur Copy Share Image
When you make a film, you realize that the audience will be powerless to stop it or flip back to refresh their… — Milos Forman Copy Share Image
There weren’t any fairy tales in the streets around me. If there was ever a Cinderella, her glass slippers shattered under her… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
We live in our tales of ourselves, she thought, and ignore as best we can the contradictions, and the lapses, and the… — Gregory Maguire Copy Share Image
I remember writing '5 Dollars' out of intense listening sessions of Bruce Springsteen. I don't know if it's obvious, but I was… — Christine and the Queens Copy Share Image
“Life is a story. It’s full of chapters. And the beauty of life is that not only do you get to choose… — Kevin Hart Copy Share Image
“Inevitably, I became distracted by tales that I knew held no promise for us—accounts of murders that had long since been solved,… — Caleb Carr Copy Share Image
“But a good novel is first of all an event; as distinguished from the continuous rush of many sensations and the messy… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“I am drawn mostly, insistently to the human voice. How powerful and necessary the solo voice, the experience of being someone, something… — Ander Monson Copy Share Image
“My turn now. The story of one of my insanities. For a long time I boasted that I was master of all… — Arthur Rimbaud Copy Share Image
“An undergraduate researching the "witch hunt" cases asked for evidence that there had been more than one hundred cases, noting that the… — Ross Cheit Copy Share Image
“TWO COMPENSATIONS FOR GROWING OLD are worth putting on record as the condition asserts itself. The first is a vantage point gained… — Anthony Powell Copy Share Image