As a child of the 1970s, I couldn't hold a narrative in my head; I was lucky if I could hold a… — Chuck Palahniuk Copy Share Image
“Responding to myth often means wearing blinkers. Myth is a complex game of production and reception that involves selecting some parts of… — Helen Morales Copy Share Image
“Stories continue in all directions to include even the retelling of the stories themselves, as legend is informed by interpretation, and interpretation… — Garth Stein Copy Share Image
“Like Wide Sargasso Sea and Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead, fanfiction asserts the rights of storytellers to take possession of characters and… — Anne Jamison Copy Share Image
Fairy tales and mythology have always been an exaggerated distillation of the real world. Think of them as blueprints for how to… — Charles de Lint Copy Share Image
“Of course that is not the whole story, but that is the way with stories; we make them what we will. It’s… — Jeanette Winterson Copy Share Image
When we're in the story, when we're part of it, we can't know the outcome. It's only later that we think we… — James Robertson Copy Share Image
I don't differentiate game design and script; it is one and only document. I think that one of the biggest problem with… — David Cage Copy Share Image
The fairy tale emanates from specific struggles to humanize bestial and barbaric forces, which have terrorized our minds and communities in concrete… — Jack Zipes Copy Share Image
A writer is always, always searching, even against her will, against all her better instincts, for the thread of a story. Everything… — Miriam Toews Copy Share Image
Though fairy tales end after ten pages, our lives do not. We are multi-volume sets. In our lives, even though one episode… — Clarissa Pinkola Estes Copy Share Image
“When a story gets wedged in your head and refuses to go away, when it keeps coming back, again and again, despite… — Nidhie Sharma Copy Share Image
There is something feeble, and a little contemptible, about a man who cannot face the perils of life without the help of… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
Myths are about the human struggle to deal with the great passages of time and life--birth, death, marriage, the transitions from childhood… — Michael Shermer Copy Share Image
“I read the stories I've been told in my own way and make a narrative of them. Narrative is a chain of… — Siri Hustvedt Copy Share Image
“But the moment we reimagine the world as a buzzing hive of individuals with a variety of genders and complicated sexes and… — Kameron Hurley Copy Share Image
“I'm no writer, but still I want to record my days. And books have given me all the words I need. I… — Tiffany McDaniel Copy Share Image
If you take myth and folklore, and these things that speak in symbols, they can be interpreted in so many ways that… — Diana Wynne Jones Copy Share Image
I used to think about video games, "This is clearly an amazing, new narrative medium, and it's going to be mind-blowing when… — Alex Garland Copy Share Image
I have always enjoyed dealing with a slightly surrealistic situation and presenting it in a realistic manner. I've always liked fairy tales… — Stanley Kubrick Copy Share Image
“The greater White House wholly believed that the story was an invented construct of weak if not preposterous narrative threads, with a… — Michael Wolff Copy Share Image
“From the cover blurb on the University of Wisconsin Press edition, writer unknown: Discussing memoirs, diaries, collaborative narratives, photo documentaries, essays, and… — G. Thomas Couser Copy Share Image
“You know that the beginning is the most important part of any work, especially in the case of a young and tender… — Plato Copy Share Image
“When Dr. Mortimer had finished reading this singular narrative he pushed his spectacles up on his forehead and stared across at Mr.… — Arthur Conan Doyle Copy Share Image
Love Isn't Perfect, It Isn't Fairy Tale Or Storybook, And It Doesn't Always Come Easy. Love Is overcoming Obstacles, Facing Challenges, Fighting… — Pacifiersucker Copy Share Image
“The worldview of a people, though normally left unspoken in the daily business of buying and selling and counting shekels, is to… — Thomas Cahill Copy Share Image
“I decided to write a myth." "Have you figured out a topic? A moral conundrum?" "Yes." "What is it?" I heard Jack's… — Brodi Ashton Copy Share Image
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“There are certain bits of stories that, because of their nature, are rather dull. This is because very little happens in them.… — Adrienne Kress Copy Share Image
“In this universe if we’re lucky, we will live in our children’s stories, their tales that will turn us to legend, some… — Jeanne Lohmann Copy Share Image
I fundamentally believe that no one can teach you how to write - finding out how to write a story is part… — Uzodinma Iweala Copy Share Image
As a child, I read a great many books in which animals and birds played significant roles, not only in the narrative… — John Burnside Copy Share Image
“The biggest reason I shoes away from embracing the narrative [of being a woman for women] is that Storytelling requires a receptive… — Hillary Clinton Copy Share Image
“After 55 years at the bar and a career as a law professor it may seem strange that I wouild write a… — F.J. Bowman Copy Share Image
“When the anthropologist asked the Kwakiutl for a map of their coast, they told him stories: "Here? Salmon gather. Here? Sea otter… — Ralph Metzner Copy Share Image
We have demythologized prematurely, that we've actually lost the vocabulary for discussing reality at its largest scales. The idea that myth is… — Marilynne Robinson Copy Share Image
“You walked into this village with a thunder tiger beside you. You have slain demons with your own hands. Are the old… — Jay Kristoff Copy Share Image
“There either is or is not, that’s the way things are. The colour of the day. The way it felt to be… — Mitch Glazer Copy Share Image
“The vigor I lacked for physical activities became incandescent when, pen in hand, I filled those pages with invented stories. Sometimes they… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“I believe, when it comes to storytelling ... that mistakes are often the beginning of the best ideas. After all, a mistake… — Orson Scott Card Copy Share Image
![“The biggest reason I shoes away from embracing the narrative [of being a woman for women] is that Storytelling requires a receptive audience, and I’ve never felt like the American electorate was receptive to this one. I wish so badly we were a country where candidate who said, ‘ my story is the…” quote by Hillary Clinton](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/740/hillary-clinton-51_narrative_the-biggest-reason-i-shoes-away-from-emb_2539055.jpg)
