All of my tales are based on the fundamental premise that common human laws and emotions have no validity or significance in… — H. P. Lovecraft Copy Share Image
Love in the real world doesn’t usually work out the way stories make us think it should. We don’t always get fairy-tale… — Richelle Mead Copy Share Image
I think people are interested in anything that's a little bigger than life and that's colorful and - you know, what they… — Stan Lee Copy Share Image
There's no such thing as fairy tales. it does not exist in reality. . . but there is always a happy ending.… — Caryll Amoyan Copy Share Image
When I was coming out of college, storytelling was very much something you did with pencil and paper, so the technological platform… — Nancy Gibbs Copy Share Image
In my films quite often, paranoia usually leads to the truth so it is kind of a psychological state of mind to… — Larry Fessenden Copy Share Image
“As I quietly stare off into space, eyes glazed over and brow thoughtfully taut, know that I am going about my business.… — Richelle E. Goodrich Copy Share Image
Since a photograph is frozen and mute, since there is no before and after, I don't want there to be a conscious… — Gregory Crewdson Copy Share Image
Peter Watts has taken the core myths of the First Contact story and shaken them to pieces. The result is a shocking… — Karl Schroeder Copy Share Image
The point of mythology or myth is to point to the horizon and to point back to ourselves: This is who we… — J. Michael Straczynski Copy Share Image
I see the carpet reflecting that narratological structure of the storytelling, with Scheherazade as the outside frame story on the outside, with… — Marina Warner Copy Share Image
“A hakawati is a teller of tales, myths, and fables. A storyteller, and entertainer. A troubadour of sorts, someone who earns his… — Rabih Alameddine Copy Share Image
“I have always been a teller of stories. When I was a young girl, my mother carried me out of a grocery… — Carmen Maria Machado Copy Share Image
In history, one gathers clues like a detective, tries to present an honest account of what most likely happened, and writes a… — Victor Davis Hanson Copy Share Image
Legal ethics is a misnomer ... lawyers conducting themselves legally are not necessarily conducting themselves morally ."...and ..."The zero sum nature of… — Thane Rosenbaum Copy Share Image
“J. R. R. Tolkien, the near-universally-hailed father of modern epic fantasy, crafted his magnum opus The Lord of the Rings to explore… — N.K. Jemisin Copy Share Image
We're always looking for ways to use technologies to open up new creative expressions for us artistically. So we're constantly thinking about… — Anthony Russo Copy Share Image
Writing of the narrative kind, and perhaps all writing, is motivated deep down, by a fear or and fascination with mortality -… — Margaret Atwood Copy Share Image
“After all these years, all I know is, I need not to do anything as a part of remorse. All I need… — Nishikant Copy Share Image
“Taleb argued that the limitations of the human brain resulted in our species’ tendency to squeeze unrelated facts and events into cause-and-effect… — Brad Stone Copy Share Image
A story with a moral appended is like the bill of a mosquito. It bores you, and then injects a stinging drop… — O. Henry Copy Share Image
But the biggest challenge overall was narrowing down the complex narrative elements into a clean and straightforward story while maintaining a sense… — Sharmeen Obaid-Chinoy Copy Share Image
I think I've been able to build up a wide range of styles in storytelling, using comics in different ways from project… — Jeffrey Brown Copy Share Image
There was a time when I thought that my career wasn't right for me, and I was caught up in a dilemma,… — Kim Bum Copy Share Image
Movements have narratives. They tell stories, because they are not just about rearranging economics and politics. They also rearrange meaning. And they're… — Marshall Ganz Copy Share Image
“It always puzzled him, when he was a child, that a woman who wrote books for a living should be so bad… — J.M. Coetzee Copy Share Image
Fairy tales are more than true: not because they tell us that dragons are real, but because they tell us that they… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
Creating one single story often requires experimenting and planning and falling on your literary rear more than once before you find the… — Nancy Lam Copy Share Image
A lot of what a composer does has to do with storytelling, and there are different ways of fusing music with picture… — Howard Shore Copy Share Image
For me, as an audience member, I'm always most engaged by serialized storytelling, so as an actor, the thing that I take… — Joshua Jackson Copy Share Image
“Every stylistic excess and moral defect which critics conspired to ignore in the author's first books, LANARK and UNLIKELY STORIES, MOSTLY, is… — Alasdair Gray Copy Share Image
My books, I will say one thing - they all have a driving narrative, and you have to turn the pages, and… — Elin Hilderbrand Copy Share Image
In hunting ideas for books, I look for stories about long-past events that once commanded the world's attention but that, for one… — Erik Larson Copy Share Image
Most people are glad for somebody else to share their own story of how they have found spiritual help. The problems start… — Mark Dever Copy Share Image
I came from the school of cinema verite documentaries, which was: Do not manipulate reality as it was happening but create a… — Mira Nair Copy Share Image
“She sighed once, wishing she had a talent for the details of telling stories. She wasn't bad at themes, she mused, but… — Nora Roberts Copy Share Image
Violence has been a part of storytelling forever and there's obviously a reason for it. Fairy tales are really violent, the original… — Jane Levy Copy Share Image
Had we lived I should have had a tale to tell of the hardihood, endurance and courage of my companions which would… — Robert Falcon Scott Copy Share Image
I was attracted to filmmaking in college because of my love of storytelling. You can have such an impact and reach a… — Rory Kennedy Copy Share Image
“Jesus wastes none of our stories, even our tales of woe. He transforms them into epic adventures where we dare to face… — Mary E. DeMuth Copy Share Image
