“I run my fingers down the spines of old books and ancient tales. I smell the ink and feel the pages as… — Liz Newman Copy Share Image
“Reading myth as crystallizing historical fact was a common approach in the 19th and early 20th centuries. But it is an approach… — Helen Morales Copy Share Image
Imagine (if you dare) a whimsical marriage of Lord Dunsany and S.J. Perelman, and you have something approaching the tales of Rhys… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“As the literary fairy tale spread in France to every age group and every social class, it began to serve different functions,… — Jack Zipes Copy Share Image
“[E]verything is fiction. When you tell yourself the story of your life, the story of your day, you edit and rewrite and… — Keith Ridgway Copy Share Image
“Not to know the end of the tale filled me with a sense of emptiness, loss. I hungered for the sharp, frightening,… — Richard Wright Copy Share Image
“wonder if we shall ever be put into songs or tales. We’re in one, of course; but I mean: put into words,… — J.R.R. Tolkien Copy Share Image
You actually do confront your dark side, your impulses, or your feelings of sibling rivalry in Cinderella or whatever. You admit that… — Catherine Hardwicke Copy Share Image
“A lesson in bringing about true changes of mind and heart comes from a Japanese functionary. By day, he crunched numbers that… — Daniel Yergin Copy Share Image
I believe there are aspects of the narrative that become easier to understand by shifting the focus of the story to the… — Hidetaka Miyazaki Copy Share Image
Minimalism seems closest to the sophisticated storytelling of movies. Movies have really educated contemporary audiences to be the most intelligent, sophisticated audiences… — Chuck Palahniuk Copy Share Image
This is our dilemma--either to taste and not to know or to know and not to taste--or, more strictly, to lack one… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“The sands of time blew into a storm of images... Images in sequence to tell the truth! Glorious legends of revolutionaries, bound… — Scott Morse Copy Share Image
“To the modernist, “myth,” like religion, merely signifies a comfortable and entrenched lie. For the postmodernist, myth simply represents one story, one… — Bradley J. Birzer Copy Share Image
“They found the woman’s body under the porch of an abandoned house,” Mary told me on the second floor of the bookstore.… — Whit Griffin Copy Share Image
Whenever two guys got together, you asked, 'What body part would you like to work?' In my case, it was the arm.… — Ricky Steamboat Copy Share Image
The resulting texts always took a narrative term, enigmatic at first but ultimately explicit and often premonitory. The semantic distribution of these… — Brion Gysin Copy Share Image
No woman or man is any one thing and the men in my stories, well, some of them are good and some… — Roxane Gay Copy Share Image
This is what I thought: for the most banal even to become an adventure, you must (and this is enough) begin to… — Jean-Paul Sartre Copy Share Image
Storytelling is all about using the imagination, for me at least it is. That's why I'm bored sometimes to see movies. I'm… — Peter Stormare Copy Share Image
The most fascinating thing for me is that 'Peter Pan' is a fairy tale, but now, this Filipino kid is a part… — Dante Basco Copy Share Image
“I dislike Allegory – the conscious and intentional allegory – yet any attempt to explain the purport of myth or fairytale must… — J.R.R. Tolkien Copy Share Image
Letters crossing in the post, unfamiliar tunes heard three times in one day, the way that blows of fate descend upon the… — Fay Weldon Copy Share Image
The children know all about everything so well that it never occurs to them to play at the situations in any one… — Charlotte Mason Copy Share Image
A wonder tale can be truer than true," I said. I had learned (...) that the deepest kind of truth can be… — Juliet Marillier Copy Share Image
For me, I want to see diversity in storytelling sources because we live in a very diverse society, and the stories are… — Lynn Shelton Copy Share Image
“It has always been the way of tales and dreams. Time forgets itself. That is also the way of remembering. But when… — Steve Karmazenuk Copy Share Image
The teacher always used me as an example to the class of good English and good storytelling because we all had to… — Michael Jackson Copy Share Image
Wherever a story comes from, whether it is a familiar myth or a private memory, the retelling exemplifies the making of a… — Mary Catherine Bateson Copy Share Image
The ways in which a standardized language test induces storytelling, for example, is the opposite of creative writing; you have to learn… — Alejandro Zambra Copy Share Image
Especially when it comes to something like the awards, I find it kind of baffling that 'True Blood' has been snubbed so… — Denis O'Hare Copy Share Image
“I go to the world beyond, where I will once again see the face of my father, and feel the warm embrace… — Karpov Kinrade Copy Share Image
What they teach you as history is mythology and true mythology is far from fantasy -- it is our true history. A… — Suzy Kassem Copy Share Image
“I would travel far and wide...seeing, listening, creating. I would weave tales for an enthralled audience. A song would be heard throughout… — Gina Marinello-Sweeney Copy Share Image
“This process of assimilation, which takes place in depth, requires a state of relaxation that is becoming rarer and rarer. If sleep… — Walter Benjamin Copy Share Image
The American people were, in the beginning, Revolutionaries and Tories. The American people ever since have been Revolutionaries and Tories. They have… — Saul Alinsky Copy Share Image
“So we all know the cliché characters: the Irish cop, the prostitute with a heart of gold, the writer with a drinking… — Craig Hart Copy Share Image
Fables should be taught as fables, myths as myths, and miracles as poetic fantasies. To teach superstitions as truths is a most… — Hypatia Copy Share Image
“Stories come in all different kinds." Hester scooted closer, clearly enjoying the subject at hand. "There's tales, which are light and fluffy.… — Jonathan Auxier Copy Share Image
“In our modern world, this elemental quality of storytelling is denied. We live today in a world in which everything has its… — Michael Richardson Copy Share Image
![“[E]verything is fiction. When you tell yourself the story of your life, the story of your day, you edit and rewrite and weave a narrative out of a collection of random experiences and events. Your conversations are fiction. Your friends and loved ones—they are characters you have created. And your…” quote by Keith Ridgway](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/4be/keith-ridgway-89468_communication_e-verything-is-fiction-when-you-tell-you_145036.jpg)
![“This is our dilemma--either to taste and not to know or to know and not to taste--or, more strictly, to lack one kind of knowledge because we are in an experience or to lack another kind because we are outside it. [. . .] Of this tragic dilemma myth is the partial solution. In the enjoyment of a…” quote by Anonymous](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/f9b/anonymous-1_concrete_this-is-our-dilemma-either-to-taste-and_2361792.jpg)
