“One of the greatest myths in the world - & the phrase 'greatest myths' is just a fancy way of saying 'big… — Lemony Snicket Copy Share Image
“Serena has spent her life fighting fiction the way good soldiers fight—intent on detecting its presence, harassing it, suppressing it—but I have… — Enrique de Hériz Copy Share Image
If a man is offered a fact which goes against his instincts, he will scrutinize it closely, and unless the evidence is… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
It's remarkable how a soundtrack can be so important to the storytelling and the experience. I think the music is going to… — Vin Diesel Copy Share Image
I belong to an ancient, idle, wild and useless tribe, perhaps I am even one of the last members of it, who… — Isak Dinesen Copy Share Image
I had a point of view, which was different. I looked at magic as theater, as storytelling, and I tried to have… — David Copperfield Copy Share Image
“We can never stop searching for Heaven, since there is always more of it than we can see. There, as in those… — Patricia Storace Copy Share Image
“warming tale with a message of hope’ Daily Mail ‘An instantly bestselling memoir that, beside its heart-warming tale of their friendship, offers… — James Bowen Copy Share Image
I do think the challenge, in a way for me, is to write a narrative film and when you finish watching it… — Shane Black Copy Share Image
What does it matter, if we tell the same old stories? ...Stories tell us who we are. What we’re capable of. When… — Kameron Hurley Copy Share Image
“Rather than a plausible explanation for how we got to be the way we are, the standard narrative is exposed as contemporary… — Cacilda Jethá Copy Share Image
“My, you ought to seen old Henry the Eight when he was in bloom. He WAS a blossom. He used to marry… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
Storytelling is an act of cruelty. We are cruel to our characters because to be kind is to invite boredom, and boredom… — Chuck Wendig Copy Share Image
“Most happy stories are fantasies that never happened. A form of wish fulfillment. (...) Telling happy stories that actually happened lends a… — Megan McCafferty Copy Share Image
Heinrich Zimmerhe had a little saying : The best things cant be told - because they are transcendent, inexpressible truths. The second… — Joseph Campbell Copy Share Image
Sometimes I am a collector of data, and only a collector, and am likely to be gross and miserly, piling up notes,… — Charles Fort Copy Share Image
Narrative and metaphysics alike become flimsy and frivolous if they venture too far from the home base of all humanism - the… — John Updike Copy Share Image
“You remember the fairy tales you were told when you were very small - 'once upon a time...' Why do you think… — Susan Cooper Copy Share Image
“These people showed a marked increase in connections between parts of the frontal cortex associated with self-concept and parts of the brain… — Florence Williams Copy Share Image
“Narratives are universally used for mediating emotional experiences. The purpose of aesthetic objects has been defined, in part, as 'the awakening, intensifying,… — Mikkel Wallentin Arndis Simonsen Andreas Hojlund Nielsen Copy Share Image
There is always a place where, if you listen closely in the night, you will hear a mother telling a story and… — Edwidge Danticat Copy Share Image
I just find it absolutely amazing that the narrative about this situation is not put out publically in the press, because it… — Julian Assange Copy Share Image
Hopping around time in a non-linear storytelling fashion (on 'Lost') allows you to bring back characters who are dead and, in some… — Damon Lindelof Copy Share Image
“There is but one world and everything that is imaginable is necessary to it. For this world also which seems to us… — Cormac McCarthy Copy Share Image
“But stories don't end. They continue as long as you're alive. You just have to get on with things. Turn the page,… — Darren Shan Copy Share Image
“My goal is to sweep the reader away from his world and bring him along for the adventure. Learning something new shouldn’t… — H.B. Bolton Copy Share Image
“Fairy tales in childhood are stepping stones throughout life, leading the way through trouble and trial. The value of fairy tales lies… — L.R. Knost Copy Share Image
Lawrence Hill, a cultural and spiritual descendant of West African griots, has used his vast storytelling talents to create an epic story… — Afua Cooper Copy Share Image
“The eternal child. - We think that play and fairy tales belong to childhood: how shortsighted that is! As though we would… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
Boys like romantic [fairy] tales; but babies like realistic tales - because they find them romantic...This proves that even nursery tales only… — Gilbert K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
From American Idol to The Matrix participatory media - where old and new media converge by involving fans - is influencing our… — Henry Jenkins Copy Share Image
I tend to gravitate toward the "act two," or "act three," or "act four" stories - either things that are underreported, where… — Sarah Stillman Copy Share Image
Not every legend is a myth, some are flesh and blood. Some legends walk among us, but they aren’t born, they’re built.… — Arnold Schwarzenegger Copy Share Image
Everybody in my family were great storytellers. My dad and his brothers would just go on and on; they could tell amazing… — Irvine Welsh Copy Share Image
I've been making 16mm urban landscape films about San Francisco for many years. I choose different nonfiction themes to investigate and am… — Jenni Olson Copy Share Image
“Do you know why teachers use me? Because I speak in tongues. I write metaphors. Every one of my stories is a… — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
What we're doing with Band of Brothers is trying to put it into human terms, so it is not just a flickering,… — Tom Hanks Copy Share Image
“I’ve always had a vivid imagination in terms of storytelling, but thankfully I learned early on that imagination can be stifled or… — Marvin Brown Copy Share Image
I think we need to make documentaries about fantasy and storytelling. I think I just started to scratch the surface of a… — Joshua Oppenheimer Copy Share Image
“Bound souls. He had always thought the stories of men and women bound throughout all eternity by the strength of passion, either… — Ann Marston Copy Share Image
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