Christmas is not a myth, not a tradition, not a dream. It is a glorious reality. — Billy Graham Copy Share Image
Historically speaking, the books I usually connect with the most are written in first-person narrative. — Davey Havok Copy Share Image
I'm a fan of classic romance films as well as screwball comedies. I think love stories are just compelling narratives. — Rose Matafeo Copy Share Image
In storytelling, the audience actually wants to work for their meal, they just don't want to know that they're doing it. — Andrew Stanton Copy Share Image
“If we were all as wise as we should be, we would have no stories to tell” — Freeman Wills Croft Copy Share Image
Narrative identity takes part in the story's movement, in the dialectic between order and disorder — Paul Ricoeur Copy Share Image
Monsters are a storytelling tool, like domestic realism and close third. — Colson Whitehead Copy Share Image
Stories are like assholes. Everybody's got one and most of 'em stink. — Lawrence Block Copy Share Image
I think of mythology as the homeland of the muses, the inspirers of art, the inspirers of poetry. To see life as… — Joseph Campbell Copy Share Image
To be honest, I found the 3D in 'Avatar' to be inconsistent and while ground breaking in many respects, sometimes I thought… — Mark Canton Copy Share Image
Then a person has only one tale?” No, some have two or three separate ones or more,” Fleet said. “Some people have… — Chris Wooding Copy Share Image
Lots of TV is kind of becoming almost the new form for adult storytelling and cinema, but still with some independent films… — Alicia Vikander Copy Share Image
As cinema is a reflection of the world around us, with more women coming into the mainstream business, more women narratives will… — Zoya Akhtar Copy Share Image
“And fairy tales are make-believe. They are the stories we tell to small children to make them believe the world is a… — J.L. Vallance Copy Share Image
“During an especially noisy elementary school assembly I witnessed a common marvel. Someone spoke, "Once upon a time..." into the mic, and… — Richelle E. Goodrich Copy Share Image
Storytelling is ultimately a creative act of pattern recognition. Through characters, plot and setting, a writer creates places where previously invisible truths… — Douglas Coupland Copy Share Image
“There were two things about this particular book ( The Golden Book of Fairy Tales ) that made it vital to the… — Terri Windling Copy Share Image
“Do Engineers have stories, Jack?" he asked. "What?" Jack said, without moving. "Stories. Myths. Things to keep the boredom out on a… — Sam Starbuck Copy Share Image
“Reading lives is the primary activity. Reading literature, although we engage in it more intentionally and more mindfully, is the secondary one.… — William L. Randall Copy Share Image
“And the beasts of the earth and the birds looked down, In a wild solemnity, On a stranger sight than a sylph… — G.K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
“Perhaps I should admit on the title page that this book is "By L. Frank Baum and his correspondents," for I have… — L. Frank Baum Copy Share Image
That's just me wanting that supernatural tool to tell a story and also not wanting to be restricted by reality, with how… — Bryan Fuller Copy Share Image
“Contemporary writers use animal-transformation themes to explore issues of gender, sexuality, race, culture, and the process of transformation...just as storytellers have done,… — Terri Windling Copy Share Image
“In the old stories, despite the impossibility of the incidents, the interest is always real and human. The princes and princesses fall… — Andrew Lang Copy Share Image
