“The object of storytelling, like the object of magic, is not to explain or to resolve, but rather to create and to… — Tim O'Brien Copy Share Image
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Such is life, my fellow-mummers-just like a poor player that bluffs and feints his hour upon the stage, and then cheapens down… — Joseph Furphy Copy Share Image
This is not the way these tales end," Calliope said firmly. "This is not the way that things end when they get… — John Barnes Copy Share Image
There’s no way to really preserve a person when they’ve gone and that’s because whatever you write down it’s not the truth,… — Steven Hall Copy Share Image
“The next time you feel yourself giving in to the sometimes overwhelming urge to panic about the fate of literature in the… — Adam Hammond Copy Share Image
Are you a storyteller, Thomas Covenant?" Absently he replied, "I was, once." "And you gave it up? Ah, that is as sad… — Stephen R. Donaldson Copy Share Image
I've always been jealous of rappers, because they can fit so many words into a song and tell a story with lots… — Skylar Grey Copy Share Image
What Peter Jackson proved with 'Lord Of The Rings' movies is that you could make various changes, and you could pull things… — Cheo Hodari Coker Copy Share Image
I was telling stories before I could write. I like to tell stories, and I like to talk to things. If you]ve… — J. California Cooper Copy Share Image
I wrote this story for you, but when I began it I had not realized that girls grow quicker than books. As… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“This is a story of art without markets, drama without a script, narrative without progress. The queer art of failure turns on… — J. Jack Halberstam Copy Share Image
We writers – and especially writers for children, but all writers – have an obligation to our readers: it's the obligation to… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
We've made so much headway with storytelling - mostly on cable, let's be honest - but also on the networks and, you… — Dylan Walsh Copy Share Image
“July 1905 issue of McClure’s Magazine was titled “Ohio: A Tale of Two Cities.” He pointed out the corruption in Cincinnati and… — R. Scott Williams Copy Share Image
What we, or at any rate what I, refer to confidently as memory--meaning a moment, a scene, a fact that has been… — William Maxwell Copy Share Image
“This profusion of questions, exclamations, and tales is the new version of the Society. Its members are spread all over the world,… — Mary Ann Shaffer Copy Share Image
“I like authors who experiment with narrative and delve into very specific conditions within their characters in order to expose universal truths… — Amanda Knox Copy Share Image
I really love animation as a storytelling medium, whether it's traditional, cel animation, or CG, or stop motion, which is more our… — Seth Green Copy Share Image
“There is no narrative now, no “And then,” only a disjointed series of images. A pile of photographs I’ve flipped through so… — Kat Rosenfield Copy Share Image
“Z ipes’s concerns overlap with those of feminists such as Marcia Lieberman, Karen Rowe, Sandra Gilbert, Susan Gubar, and, to a lesser… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“The space between the private and the public is the nexus of the personal and the social, if not political. It’s where… — John Capecci and Timothy Cage Copy Share Image
The inherent non-linearity of the digital allows for more input from others, including the subject and reader as collaborators. The top-down, bedtime-style… — Fred Ritchin Copy Share Image
Normally my process is to sit in a room and read a script and talk about it and ask questions and just… — Richard Linklater Copy Share Image
“We come to know ourselves only through stories. We listen to the stories of others, we inherit the stories of those who… — Camilla Gibb Copy Share Image
“I recount as this journey begins where I rest to gather the tale from this same old house resting on the hill,… — Kris Courtney Copy Share Image
Now it is a strange thing, but things that are good to have and days that are good to spend are soon… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The relationship with actor and director is probably closer to theater, in that, when we record the dialogue, there is very little… — Glenn McQuaid Copy Share Image
“children listen to superstitious tales, the story goes, that that spot, in the heart of the "Big Cane," is a haunted place.… — Solomon Northup Copy Share Image
“The principle I always go on in writing a novel is to think of the characters in terms of actors in a… — P.G. Wodehouse Copy Share Image
“All through the winter months, Rose kept up the practice of sitting by the fire with Peter and a book telling him… — Christopher Daniel Mechling Copy Share Image
Tightly-plotted, well-researched and beautifully drawn, this book is a real delight. Garen Ewing's mix of engaging characters, exciting old-school adventure, attractive ligne… — Bryan Talbot Copy Share Image
Of those, the only one that really stands out for me is Tales From The Darkside, for a couple of reasons, one… — Brent Spiner Copy Share Image
“He was a chameleon. He could change his appearance in seconds. He was a master in disguise and he could baffle the… — Avijeet Das Copy Share Image
“The air in the strange, familiar environment of this city is dense with story, and it draws me into thinking of life… — Teju Cole Copy Share Image
I'm removed in my real life, and unable to express certain things face to face. So I have always found myself in… — Jenny Lewis Copy Share Image
We can create the sensation of community through the accrual of actions, and that's often the clichéd way that storytelling is talked… — Vijay Iyer Copy Share Image
Home is a blueprint of memory...Finding home is crucial to the act of writing. Begin here. With what you know. With the… — Georgia Heard Copy Share Image
As I read more and more fairy tales as an adult, I found massive collusion between their 'subjects' and those in my… — Kate Bernheimer Copy Share Image
There are books full of great writing that don't have very good stories. Read sometimes for the story... don't be like the… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
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