When we haven't the time to listen to each other's stories we seek out experts to tell us how to live. The… — Rachel Naomi Remen Copy Share Image
“The story about Bessie Goldberg that I heard from my parents was that a nice old lady had been killed down the… — Sebastian Junger Copy Share Image
“I am a storyteller, for better and for worse. I suspect that a feeling for stories, for narrative, is a universal human… — Oliver Sacks Copy Share Image
“. . .because we had survived sisters and brothers, daughters and sons, we discovered bones that rose from the dark earth and… — Lisel Mueller Copy Share Image
One can discern a few very general myths that facilitate the birth of further myths: that everything is possible; that whatever we… — Mario Bunge Copy Share Image
The tale of the Monkey Girl gave me wat I needed most at a critical time in my life: the image of… — Midori Snyder Copy Share Image
Like Sylvia Plath, Natalie Jeanne Champagne invites you so close to the pain and agony of her life of mental illness and… — Andy Behrman Copy Share Image
“Stories are how we make sense of our lives. To tell a story is to own it: to own the narrative thread… — Deborah Copaken Kogan Copy Share Image
I actually really liked 'The Help.' I know that may not be a popular thing, but I thought it was a solid… — Lena Waithe Copy Share Image
A tale of scandal is as fatal to the credit of a prudent lady as a fever is generally to those of… — Richard Brinsley Sheridan Copy Share Image
“Nor, says Nora, do we want commonplace tales of hausfrau Angst, of the woman heroically making over her life with a handsome… — Kate Atkinson Copy Share Image
“Today abstraction is no longer that of the map, the double, the mirror, or the concept. Simulation is no longer that of… — Jean Baudrillard Copy Share Image
You can put the camera in places where you may not necessarily be able to put it there if I don't do… — Tom Cruise Copy Share Image
Tell a story. You don't have to do a thousand things in two minutes when you can do one just as good… — Goldust Copy Share Image
I wrote my first screenplay on a lark, because it was a storytelling format that felt like a familiar shorthand - we… — Lisa Lutz Copy Share Image
I'm in the storytelling business, and so you're always drawn to the unusual. And early on, I discovered that's the easiest way… — Malcolm Gladwell Copy Share Image
“The principles of storytelling do not change. Going home. Coming of age. Sin and redemption. The hero. The journey, The power of… — Chris Dee Copy Share Image
The myths and folk tales of the whole world make clear that the refusal is essentially a refusal to give up what… — Joseph Campbell Copy Share Image
The only thing I would want to say is that storytelling is ancient; it's something that everybody does. Kids mustn't be in… — Natalie Babbitt Copy Share Image
“A writer is a dangerous friend. Everything you say, all of your life and experience, is fodder for our writing. We mean… — Randy Murray Copy Share Image
So I wanted to write a play that put some thoughts and feelings in the air about the miracle and the mystery… — Will Eno Copy Share Image
The man who tells the tale if he has a tale worth telling will know exactly what he is about and this… — William Golding Copy Share Image
“It doesn't matter whether a sequence of words is called a history or a story: that is, whether it is intended to… — Northrop Frye Copy Share Image
I had an idea in the beginning to do a book about some of the events that I had covered, just various… — Bob Schieffer Copy Share Image
Books are the way that we communicate with the dead. The way that we learn lessons from those who are no longer… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
I have totally hitched my wagon to the horse of storytelling, and the idea that none of us know why we're born,… — Ethan Hawke Copy Share Image
“Her earnestness and apparent belief of what she narrated, excited the interest even of Aubrey; and often, as she told him the… — John William Polidori Copy Share Image
“Friedan demystified the fairy tale and traced it back to its roots. She named the unnamed problem. She told women they weren’t… — Carina Chocano Copy Share Image
What I like about narrative in general is when there is some incongruity between the form and content. Let's say, mixing up… — Kelly Link Copy Share Image
“Fables should be taught as fables, myths as myths, and miracles as poetic fancies. To teach superstitions as truths is a most… — Hypathia of Alexandria Copy Share Image
In film, you have to present everything on the screen so it's the opposite of what I usually do with storytelling. It… — Yiyun Li Copy Share Image
“I Write books for the little girl in the adult woman who some man told she was not good enough. Let us… — Crystal Evans Copy Share Image
In the shows I've done serialized storytelling with, there are big open questions, but you like every episode to be identifiable as… — Tim Kring Copy Share Image
“Among pernicious myths is the one where people always get very upbeat and generous and other-directed right before they eliminate their own… — David Foster Wallace Copy Share Image
“I will tell you a few—each one with a moral!” Sri Yukteswar’s eyes twinkled with his warning. “My mother once tried to… — Paramahansa Yogananda Copy Share Image
“We all fictionalize ourselves in the process of creating a story out of the raw materials of our life. For some it… — Neil McCormick Copy Share Image
The thing about storytelling is it's very stripped down; it's very much at the core of 'I'm a person and I'm just… — Mike Birbiglia Copy Share Image
The way that Lucasfilm used ILM was George never restricted his thinking to things that he knew could be executed with the… — John Knoll Copy Share Image
“But in our camp, his story was everyone’s story, a single tale of dispossession, of being stripped to the bones of one’s… — Susan Abulhawa Copy Share Image
“The woman who presents herself to the spectator as a 'picture' forever arranged, is, for the contemplative mind, the chiefest danger. Sometimes… — Djuna Barnes Copy Share Image
