“In Paris, where raillery is so quick to throw emotion out the window, silence, in a roomful of clever people after a… — Jules Barbey d'Aurevilly Copy Share Image
Incredibly deep research combines with the talents of a fine historian and writer to produce superb narrative history. The true character and… — Robert M. Utley Copy Share Image
“There was a time he’d heard tales of Dab Sweet and he’d stuck thumbs in his belt and chin to the sky… — Joe Abercrombie Copy Share Image
This life, which had been the tomb of his virtue and of his honour, is but a walking shadow; a poor player,… — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
“ Confession time: I doubt I would ever have picked up one of Marjorie’s books, had I not met her in person.… — Bill Willingham Copy Share Image
If Im honest, I have to tell you I still read fairy tales and I like them best of all. — Bubbly Copy Share Image
I'm a man of the marketplace as well as an artist. I'm a pawnbroker of myth. — Richard Condon Copy Share Image
I think we're in this exciting moment of Internet streaming storytelling, and it's anybody's guess what that is or what it means.… — Brit Marling Copy Share Image
“Myth, in any culture, is the working out of present anxieties against a backdrop of a time (and sometimes place) removed from… — M. G. DuPree 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
“Even as the brain is dying, it refuses to stop generating a narrative, the scaffolding upon which it weaves cause and effect,… — David McRaney Copy Share Image
William Shakespeare was the most remarkable storyteller that the world has ever known. Homer told of adventure and men at war, Sophocles… — Marchette Chute Copy Share Image
Before the real city could be seen it had to be imagined, the way rumours and tall tales were a kind of… — Michael Ondaatje Copy Share Image
There were two forests for every one you entered. There was the one you walked in, the physical echo, and then there… — Charles de Lint Copy Share Image
It's rather useless to write a gripping narrative with nothing in it but climate change because novels are always about people even… — Margaret Atwood Copy Share Image
Are you a minor character in my tale, or am I a lesser figure in yours? — Jacqueline Carey Copy Share Image
If you could have a book called My Favorite Six Stories, I don't think I'd have trouble doing that. — Ann Beattie Copy Share Image
The more real things get, the more like myths they become. There have always been myths, but the myths of earlier times… — Rainer Werner Fassbinder Copy Share Image
“I felt as though the past and the future, cause and effect, patterns and connections, were a huge complicated artifice, and it… — Ann Brashares Copy Share Image
I can tell you all kinds of moral tales, but fashion and reality are vaguely different. — Karl Lagerfeld Copy Share Image
“A well-spun tale can transport listeners away from their humdrum lives and return them with an enlarged sense of the world.” — Jonathan Auxier Copy Share Image
“Stories. Character. Dialouge. Entire worlds created on the page. Worlds that could sweep you away or frighten you, make you laugh or… — Jamie Michaels Copy Share Image
