Storytelling in general is a communal act. Throughout human history, people would gather around, whether by the fire or at a tavern,… — Joseph Gordon-Levitt Copy Share Image
“Sometimes it seems that half of the fairy tales of the world are some form of Cinderella, ugly duckling, or poor boy… — Richard Rohr Copy Share Image
The storytelling mind is allergic to uncertainty, randomness, and coincidence. It is addicted to meaning. If the storytelling mind cannot find meaningful… — Jonathan Gottschall Copy Share Image
“In the beginning, there’s a blank mind. Then that mind gets an idea in it, and the trouble begins, because the mind… — George Saunders Copy Share Image
“September let go a long-held breath. She stared into the roiling black-violet soup, thinking furiously. The trouble was, September didn’t know what… — Catherynne M. Valente Copy Share Image
The equivocations, the confusions, the contradictions. There's no way we can live through or comprehend something so big that happened so long… — Nicholson Baker Copy Share Image
“The world of shadows and superstition that was Victorian England, so well depicted in this 1871 tale, was unique. While the foundations… — Hugh Lamb Copy Share Image
All of the elements of the comic way tend to spread to others, insinuating joy where it was previously absent. Conversation has… — Joseph Rusling Meeker Copy Share Image
“...while epic fantasy is based on the fairy tale of the just war, that’s not one you’ll find in Grimm or Disney,… — Catherynne M. Valente Copy Share Image
[Fairy tales] are like a journey to the woods and the many ways you can get lost. Some people say it's not… — Alice Hoffman Copy Share Image
“Tales are people who sit on the doorstep of the house of my mind. It is cold outside and they sit waiting.… — Sherwood Anderson Copy Share Image
The myth stems from the belief that writing is some mystical process. That it's magical. That it abides by its own set… — Patrick Rothfuss Copy Share Image
'Guild Wars 2' is a wider world in that we have a lot of different mechanics available for storytelling. We have our… — Jeff Grubb Copy Share Image
“You alone own your story. Do not let another tell it, and if you find yourself in the company of one determined… — Jeanette LeBlanc Copy Share Image
Entertain, yes. That goes without saying. But a good writer does that automatically, it's built into the machine. Telling a thumpingly good,… — Harlan Ellison Copy Share Image
“The children were fond of stories, of hero soldiers and buccaneer bounties as muttered by the village elders; but they were especially… — E. K. Cross Copy Share Image
It's a foreground of my feeling. That place moves me. And I don't mean my country; it's part of our shared natural… — Sean Penn Copy Share Image
“On Three Ways of Writing for Children”: When I was ten, I read fairy tales in secret and would have been ashamed… — Gretchen Rubin Copy Share Image
I'm obsessed with this idea of storytellers and people who have a narrative, and sometimes sustain a relationship because they're telling a… — Atom Egoyan Copy Share Image
“She remembered a tale she had heard from Old Nan, about how sometimes during a long winter men who'd lived beyond their… — George R.R. Martin Copy Share Image
“From the book "Age of Armageddon: The Spirit of Krynn" “Is this another tall tale?” Eva quickly asks her suspicion aroused by… — Ryan Tyler Palmer Copy Share Image
I wish that more people were willing to turn down upfront money in exchange for doing things that are more original. Turning… — Jason Blum Copy Share Image
“You can’t tell half a tale, Poison. You can’t write half a book. Whatever you choose to do next will completely change… — Chris Wooding Copy Share Image
To captivate our varied and worldwide audience of all ages, the nature and treatment of the fairy tale, the legend, the myth… — Walt Disney Copy Share Image
Film is such a director's medium; you're really in their hands in terms of the real storytelling. As an actor, you can… — Rachel Weisz Copy Share Image
“Good writers may “tell” about almost anything in fiction except the characters’ feelings. One may tell the reader that the character went… — John Gardner Copy Share Image
My documentaries have always been very much constructed in the spirit of dominant cinema. From the time I started making non-fiction, I… — Brett Morgen Copy Share Image
“Behind this lies not just impact or drama, but a typically Japanese tendency. The story of Pygmalion, the Greek myth — in… — Izima Kaoru Copy Share Image
How I keep trying to force our story into a fairy tale, but from the beginning, it's been more like a nursery… — Shannon Hale Copy Share Image
What joins the Americans one to another is not a common ancestry, language or race, but a shared work of the imagination… — Lewis H. Lapham Copy Share Image
“This makes me wonder, of course, about all of Scripture... how many other stories have I twisted to tell my own story?… — Shauna Niequist Copy Share Image
've always defined a truly alluring story as a journey we're not equipped to take ourselves with a person we're tempted but… — Walter Kirn Copy Share Image
“Stories are structured as we wish our lives were, with a beginning, a middle, and an end; with meaning and purpose; with… — Kim White Copy Share Image
One describes a tale best by telling the tale. You see? The way one describes a story, to oneself or to the… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
“In the wild cathedral evening the rain unraveled tales for the disrobed faceless forms of no position. Tolling for the tongues with… — Bob Dylan Copy Share Image
“Outside Styx's apartment was not the first time Rochester and I had met, or would it be the last. We first encountered… — Jasper Fforde Copy Share Image
The definition of horror is pretty broad. What causes us "horror" is actually a many splendored thing (laughs). It can be hard… — Bryan Fuller Copy Share Image
“Console Wars is a narrative account based on information obtained from hundreds of interviews. Re-creating a story of this nature, which draws… — Blake J. Harris Copy Share Image
“I began my tale in the hope that I might produce something to interest the young (perchance, also, the old) in a… — R.M. Ballantyne Copy Share Image
“I am a book. Sheaves pressed from the pulp of oaks and pines a natural sawdust made dingy from purses, dusty from… — Lise McClendon Copy Share Image
![“[Fairy tales] are like a journey to the woods and the many ways you can get lost. Some people say it's not a good idea to read fairy tales to anyone under the age of eight because they are brutal and raw. When I was a kid I often felt that kids's books were speaking down to me, but I never felt…” quote by Alice Hoffman](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/09c/alice-hoffman-427_age_fairy-tales-are-like-a-journey-to-the-wo_1682556.jpg)
