In constructing our narratives, we identify which particular events or experiences were formative or transformative. In telling our stories, we also claim… — Peg O'Connor Copy Share Image
“They say, dead men tell no tale, and yet, We live our lives based on dead men's tale. It is okay to… — Abhijit Naskar Copy Share Image
The wrestling that I grew up on was this; it was NXT. Definitely not the athleticism factor or the in-ring factor -… — Tommaso Ciampa Copy Share Image
Sometimes you pick up on the myth and it's just an accident. I think it comes naturally out of people, and some… — Brie Larson Copy Share Image
“Do you have any idea how hard a story is to write? My brain is jumpy, and my heart doesn't know where… — Jenny Hubbard Copy Share Image
Storytelling is my currency. It's my only worth. The only thing of value I have in this life is my ability to… — Kevin Smith Copy Share Image
What I've found about 'Cinderella' is that what it provokes in an audience is really extraordinary. It appears to be a deceptively… — Kenneth Branagh Copy Share Image
I look at the story, I look at the idea and just try to think of it in terms of that whole… — John Boorman Copy Share Image
If one loves stories, then one would naturally love the story of the story. Or the story behind the story, pick your… — Lorrie Moore Copy Share Image
That same night, I wrote my first short story. It took me thirty minutes. It was a dark little tale about a… — Khaled Hosseini Copy Share Image
What I think networks do so well are big, fun, accessible, invite everybody into the tent kinds of storytelling, akin to an… — Eric Kripke Copy Share Image
“Therese was propped up on one elbow. The milk was so hot, she could barely let her lip touch it at first.… — Patricia Highsmith Copy Share Image
“This book, then, is a product of the last fifteen years, as well as a product of the fifteen years that preceded… — Michael E. Gerber Copy Share Image
“Like night dreams, stores often use symbolic language, therefore bypassing the ego and persona, and traveling straight to the spirit and soul… — Clarissa Pinkola Estes Copy Share Image
The storyteller is deep inside everyone of us. The story-maker is always with us. Let us suppose our world is attacked by… — Doris Lessing Copy Share Image
It is easy to imagine fantasy as physical and myth as real. We do it almost every moment. We do this as… — Walker Evans Copy Share Image
Most young people haven't used their storytelling skills since they were 8 or 9 or 10 and wanted to persuade Mom and… — Peter Guber Copy Share Image
Delicacy - a sad, sad false delicacy - robs literature of the two best things among its belongings: Family-circle narratives and obscene… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
I like storytelling, and for storytelling you need a drama. And for there to be drama, you need twists, and by twists… — Asghar Farhadi Copy Share Image
“My father never told us how the stories worked. He didn't reveal the layers, the nuggets of information, the fragments of truth… — Tahir Shah Copy Share Image
Writing is a process of discovering. I could never outline a narrative; that just sounds boring. There's no joy of discovery in… — Bob Shacochis Copy Share Image
The thing that I get most excited about is that it does feel like a new realm of storytelling is being created… — Paul Rust Copy Share Image
I had read a Tale of Two Cities and found it up to my standards as a romantic novel. She opened the… — Maya Angelou Copy Share Image
“You are a born storyteller," said the old lady. "You had the sense to see you were caught in a story, and… — A.S. Byatt Copy Share Image
I really struggled, growing up, with reading and writing. I had a hard time to do that, but I was really passionate… — Maya Hawke Copy Share Image
“Olive Wellwood had the feeling writers often have when told perfect tales for fictions, that there was too much fact, too little… — A.S. Byatt Copy Share Image
“Because there was a ghost involved, you may call this a ghost story. But what family isn't a ghost story? Sharing tales… — Mitch Albom Copy Share Image
Write out the story - rapidly, fluently, and not too critically - following the second or narrative-order synopsis. Change incidents and plot… — H. P. Lovecraft Copy Share Image
I think it's very improtant and healthy to tell differnt stories than the corporatist narratives we are being asked to swallow hook,… — John Cusack Copy Share Image
“For the others, it was still just a tale, like all the tales we told, night by night, tales comical and strange,… — Juliet Marillier Copy Share Image
“Janet Murray’s book Hamlet on the Holodeck: The Future of Narrative in Cyberspace is a spirited and unrelentingly optimistic defense of new… — Wheeler J_Robinson Copy Share Image
The tales are quite hard to remember and I found that going back to it between bouts of writing fiction, I was… — Marina Warner Copy Share Image
I've always enjoyed that kind of thing - thinking about the production of narrative and why it is that when we read… — Matthew Tobin Anderson Copy Share Image
I love storytelling. If you strip all the bits away, what you'll find at the center is a storyteller. As I warm… — Ben Kingsley Copy Share Image
“Narrative, in short. is more than literature, it is the way we understand our lives. If literature merely supplied entertainment, then it… — Robert N. Bellah Copy Share Image
“How might I get over this? How would I be able to overlook the way he used to be with me? How… — Nishikant Copy Share Image
A deeply felt novel . . . The Story of Forgetting offers us both solace and illumination. Stefan Merrill Block possesses a… — Sarah Shun-lien Bynum Copy Share Image
Being true to yourself involves showing and sharing emotion. The spirit that motivates most great storytellers is 'I want you to feel… — Peter Guber Copy Share Image
“Humans are a story telling species. Throughout history we have told stories to each other and ourselves as one of the ways… — Nathan Myhrvold Copy Share Image
When I used to watch vaudevillian impressionists, people like Rich Little or Frank Gorshin, I always felt like the voice was the… — Frank Caliendo Copy Share Image
