“In older myths, the dark road leads downward into the Underworld, where Persephone is carried off by Hades, much against her will,… — Terri Windling Copy Share Image
“The worst of such stories is that the triumphant romancers can always be put to confusion and crushed by the very details… — Fyodor Dostoyevsky Copy Share Image
“It has generally been assumed that fairy tales were first created for children and are largely the domain of children. But nothing… — Jack Zipes Copy Share Image
Part of my problem is that I cannot dispel the myths that have somehow accumulated over the years. Somebody writes something, it's… — Stanley Kubrick Copy Share Image
My idea of storytelling is - I wouldn't say it's religious but I would say it's spiritual. You know, the chemist Friedrich… — David Milch Copy Share Image
I'm an actor, so I'm interested in the pursuit of storytelling and character and challenging myself and expanding my craft. That's not… — Tatiana Maslany Copy Share Image
Dream is the personalized myth, myth the depersonalized dream; both myth and dream are symbolic in the same general way of the… — Joseph Campbell Copy Share Image
“A short story is not a portrayal of life. When life becomes disconsolate and the fear for the unknown seeps through the… — Anu Lal Copy Share Image
I love storytelling, you know, beyond anything. I love a great story beyond a great performance. Storytelling is about what we all… — Jake Gyllenhaal Copy Share Image
I feel like there's already a written narrative going on everywhere. All the different situations and realities you're in, like words floating… — Bill Callahan Copy Share Image
As I got a little older, I discovered Lori McKenna and Patty Griffin and found out how many other tools we have… — Ashley McBryde Copy Share Image
For each of my novels, I've had something of a eureka moment of deciding what world I want to set it in… — Teddy Wayne Copy Share Image
The great wheel of fire of ancient wisdom, silence and word engendering the myth of the origin, human action engendering the epic… — Carlos Fuentes Copy Share Image
“We have, each of us, a life-story, an inner narrative — whose continuity, whose sense, is our lives. It might be said… — Oliver Sacks Copy Share Image
“There was a time he’d heard tales of Dab Sweet and he’d stuck thumbs in his belt and chin to the sky… — Joe Abercrombie Copy Share Image
I think we all are born inside of our parents' narratives. We stay there for a good while. We are taught their… — Melissa Febos Copy Share Image
“Storyteller's Creed: I believe that imagination is stronger than knowledge. That myth is more potent than history. That dreams are more powerful… — Robert Fulghum Copy Share Image
It is however, difficult to make your narratives relative by yourself. A novelists' work is to provide models to make your narratives… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
The unrealistic nature of these tales (which narrowminded rationalists object to) is an important device, because it makes obvious that the fairy… — Bruno Bettelheim Copy Share Image
“The term - 'Fairy-Tales' is so ironical in itself, when I sometimes sit to write love stories with a happy ending, it… — Mehek Bassi Copy Share Image
One of the aspects I like about the film is that there is a kind of emotional, psychological discussion during the storytelling,… — Keanu Reeves Copy Share Image
There is a reason for the affected profession of " anarchist sympathies" among Tories and grandees, and of " libertarian principles" by… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
“I am going to tell a story now, and though I've made a life out of writing words, this is the first… — Dexter Palmer Copy Share Image
Machines have given us a new ability to count and make our understanding quantitative. The Web connects news gatherers with audiences in… — Tom Rosenstiel Copy Share Image
My show is sort of a short-film anthology, and I'm able to tell little stories that don't necessarily carry a whole episode… — Louis C. K Copy Share Image
“This is all a tale of an older world and a forgotten countryside. At this moment of time change has come; a… — John Buchan Copy Share Image
“When I say "narrative", I do not mean simply the plot, I mean considerably more. Plots and their shapes--the bare outlines of… — Diana Wynne Jones Copy Share Image
Acting was definitely half of what I loved about storytelling and about theater. So, when I get a chance to do a… — Josh Groban Copy Share Image
Storytelling, you know, has a real function. The process of the storytelling is itself a healing process, partly because you have someone… — Alice Walker Copy Share Image
“We had practiced bits and pieces of his story, but never the whole thing. In fact, I never heard Michael recount his… — Danielle Allen Copy Share Image
People see their own lives as stories; a lifelong story with a single hero or heroine... much contemporary unhappiness is due to… — Guy Claxton Copy Share Image
“Part of dedicating your life to studying literature is realizing that storytelling is more than just make-believe and that make-believe is far… — Laurie Frankel Copy Share Image
Though Nathalie Dupree did not remember much about my presence in her class, it marked me forever. I remain her enthusiast, her… — Pat Conroy Copy Share Image
Good storytelling for me is not so much technical expertise, which I know is applauded often; it's actually freshness of approach. It… — Danny Boyle Copy Share Image
In each studio there is a human being dressed in the full regalia of his myth fearing to expore a vulnerable opening,… — Anais Nin Copy Share Image
“It's in The Lord of the Rings, I think, where one of the characters says that "way leads on to way"; that… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
One of the basic motifs in fairy tales is that you find the poor and unfortunate along the side of the road,… — George Lucas Copy Share Image
All storytelling is kind of that - there's a bit of text that you put pressure on that spits out some desire… — George Saunders Copy Share Image
“[Veda:] Twenty years of thinking that vampires and witches and all things supernatural were nothing but a bedtime story: a myth, thought… — Jessica Lave Copy Share Image
“ When you look out across the fields And you both see the same star Pitching its tent on the point of… — Eiléan Ní Chuilleanáin Copy Share Image
![“[Veda:] Twenty years of thinking that vampires and witches and all things supernatural were nothing but a bedtime story: a myth, thought up by ignorant people and told to children to keep them from straying after dark. Now, when it was right in front of her, it still felt like a fairy tale.” quote by Jessica Lave](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/18b/jessica-lave-25020_children_veda-twenty-years-of-thinking-that-vampi_117555.jpg)
