You are never alone in Afghanistan. You are always in the company of others, usually family. You don't understand yourself really as… — Khaled Hosseini Copy Share Image
The short story is at an advantage over the novel, and can claim its nearer kinship to poetry, because it must be… — Elizabeth Bowen Copy Share Image
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Here is the world of imagination, hopes, and dreams. In this timeless land of enchantment, the age of chivalry, magic and make-believe… — Walt Disney Copy Share Image
Star Trek' is the McDonald's of science fiction; it's fast food storytelling. Every problem is like every other problem. They all get… — David Gerrold Copy Share Image
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Fiction allows us to slide into these other heads, these other places, and look out through other eyes. And then in the… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
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I love character-driven, well-written, great storytelling types of films, and I think that 'My Cousin Vinny' just hit the nail on the… — Mekhi Phifer Copy Share Image
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When I wrote the eight fairy tales that appear in 'Horse, Flower, Bird' I was working toward a completely new form of… — Kate Bernheimer Copy Share Image
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I could a tale unfold whose lightest word Would harrow up thy soul, freeze thy young blood, Make thy two eyes like… — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
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The artist usually sets out -- or used to -- to point a moral and adorn a tale. The tale, however, points… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
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I remembered my New Orleans days, living on two five-cent candy bars a day for weeks at a time in order to… — Charles Bukowski Copy Share Image
[Science fiction is] that class of prose narrative treating of a situation that could not arise in the world we know, but… — Kingsley Amis Copy Share Image
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Storytelling is how we survive, when there's no feed, the story feeds something, it feeds the spirit, the imagination. I can't imagine… — Alice Walker Copy Share Image
I feel like the big twist shows are now off the table. I think Westworld was probably the last one to Trojan… — Damon Lindelof Copy Share Image
“The great enemy of the truth is very often not the lie – deliberate, contrived, and dishonest – but the myth, persistent,… — Tim O'Shea Copy Share Image
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For those who immerse themselves in what the fairy tale has to communicate, it becomes a deep, quiet pool which at first… — Bruno Bettelheim Copy Share Image
A large section of the idling classes of England get their incomes by believing that Jesus was born of a virgin and… — Upton Sinclair Copy Share Image
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