I love dealing with drama. I'm drawn to the painful side of storytelling, more so. I feel like that's where you get… — Michael K. Williams Copy Share Image
We all have an ongoing narrative inside our heads, the narrative that is spoken aloud if a friend asks a question. That… — Lydia Davis Copy Share Image
“Reading may be the last secretive behavior that is neither pathological or prosecutable. It is certainly the last refuge from the real-time… — Richard Powers Copy Share Image
“Life is a collection of memories and feelings. Mawkish sentimentally urges us to engage in artistic overtures, we yearn to share with… — Kilroy J. Oldster Copy Share Image
I think that story ballets, as great as they might sell, they're a really dated and awkward medium to tell stories through.… — Justin Peck Copy Share Image
“Start telling the stories that only you can tell. Because there will always be better writers than you, and there will always… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
“What we, or at any rate what I, refer to confidently as memory - meaning a moment, a scene, a fact that… — William Maxwell Copy Share Image
Wendy Doniger has spent decades collecting not only myths from ancient texts but stories of all kinds from novels, movies, newspapers about… — Roberto Calasso Copy Share Image
“How shall I typify what happened? Passion play? Somewhat. Weird tale? Indubitably. Horror story? Pretty close. Grotesque melodrama? Certainly. Black comedy? Your… — Richard Matheson Copy Share Image
I have not much faith in women in fiction… Women are so horribly subjective and they have such scorn for the healthy… — Willa Cather Copy Share Image
“There is an Anglo-Saxon form of riddling that plays with the polarities of words like bright and dark, cold and warm, throwing… — Gerald Hausman Copy Share Image
The fact that fairy tales remain a literary underdog-undervalued and undermined-even as they shape so many popular stories, redoubles my certainty that… — Kate Bernheimer Copy Share Image
I love crosscut parallel storytelling, like we did in Blue Valentine. I love how Alejandro González Iñárritu has done it, and Quentin… — Derek Cianfrance Copy Share Image
“Beneath the notebook she found the book of fairy tales. The cover was green cardboard, the writing gold: 'Magical Tales for Girls… — Kate Morton Copy Share Image
“To paint an image and to write a poem, is to reclaim the dignity and personal joy...it is an invitation for my… — Reclaiming my Life Isabella Koldras Copy Share Image
What is a novel? I say: an invented story. At the same time a story which, though invented has the power to… — Elizabeth Bowen Copy Share Image
Yeah loads of bruises and welts, usually around the hip, arse, thigh region and elbows. Elbows got knocked up big time, but… — Colin Farrell Copy Share Image
The close-up has no equivalent in a narrative fashioned of words. Literatureis totally lacking in any working method to enable it to… — Italo Calvino Copy Share Image
There are stories that are true, in which each individual's tale is unique and tragic, and the worst of the tragedy is… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
“I know that every interpretation of a myth impoverishes and suffocates it; with myths, it’s better not to rush things, better to… — Italo Calvino Copy Share Image
This sucks on so many levels." Dialogue from "Jason X" Rare for a movie to so frankly describe itself. "Jason X" sucks… — Roger Ebert Copy Share Image
If you know why someone is doing what they're doing, why they're behaving the way they are, then that's your job to… — Cate Blanchett Copy Share Image
Whether you're writing a horror show or a James Bond film, I think what bubbles beneath is interesting characterization. The colors that… — John Logan Copy Share Image
A writer is dreamed and transfigured into being by spells, wishes, goldfish, silhouettes of trees, boxes of fairy tales dropped in the… — Cynthia Ozick Copy Share Image
“We have seen that a myth could never approached in a purely profane setting. It was only comprehensible in a liturgical context… — Karen Armstrong Copy Share Image
I do think that this represents a kind of shift towards myth, a recovery of myth, largely through the popularity of writers… — Marina Warner Copy Share Image
When you think of Grimm's fairy tales, they are deeply, deeply psychological. They're so powerful, so bloody, and really, really disturbing. Think… — Denis O'Hare Copy Share Image
After all, it was only a story,' I said, determined to prove her wrong. 'All manner of terrible things may happen in… — Chris Priestley Copy Share Image
What I often do in my work is to take a great story, such as the Odyssey, the search for the Grail,… — Jean Houston Copy Share Image
In storytelling you kind of put your nightmares up there, you put your dreams up there and people can see them better… — Holly Hunter Copy Share Image
“the fairy tale stirs and troubles him (to his life-long enrichment) with the dim sense of something beyond his reach and, far… — C.S. Lewis Copy Share Image
The future of narrative? Built in, part of the human template. Not going away. The future of the codex book, with pages… — Margaret Atwood Copy Share Image
From a tale one expects a bit of wildness, of exaggeration and dramatic effect. The tale has no inherent concern with decorum,… — Peter Straub Copy Share Image
Each time I'm starting to work on a film, even if I love to settle the plot in the real world, I… — Arnaud Desplechin Copy Share Image
Storytelling in Appalachian culture - it runs deep. You have these communities and families that, for a long time, were isolated, and… — Tyler Childers Copy Share Image
Pulitzer's Gold is a goldmine of inspiration for both journalists and non-journalists. Those in the newspaper business, who now find themselves obsessing… — Jeffrey Zaslow Copy Share Image
I've had frustrated storytelling juices that have been lying dormant for a long time, and I guess the documentary was a way… — Eric Bana Copy Share Image
“As an active-duty spouse, my role is to help lessen that divide between civilian and military by relaying my story. My story… — Rachel Stephens Showman, Those Ducks Look Aggressive Copy Share Image
“Since these wonder tales have been with us for thousands of years and have undergone so many different changes in the oral… — Jack Zipes Copy Share Image
“He and his boys up there were keeping it new, at the risk of ruin, destruction, madness, and death, in order to… — James Baldwin Copy Share Image
