It is a tale told by an idiot, full of sound and fury; signifying nothing. — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
“There was no energy of a narrative in my family, not even the fervour of an elegy.” — Anne Michaels Copy Share Image
Each generation wants their own form of entertainment and their own form of storytelling. — Nancy Dubuc Copy Share Image
We love a tale of heroes and villains and conflicts requiring a neat resolution. — Barry Ritholtz Copy Share Image
All that I hope to say in books, all that I ever hope to say, is that I love the world. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
If you have distance from the events, then your story can work as an analogy or parable rather than its literal narrative. — Peter Morgan Copy Share Image
There's so much more to tell about Africa than the usual stories about war, famine and disease. — Komla Dumor Copy Share Image
If you write a novel alone you sit and you weave a little narrative. And it's O.K., but it's of no account. — V. S. Naipaul Copy Share Image
The fundamental difficulty that most novelists face when they are trying to adapt their own book into a screenplay is realizing that… — Barry Eisler Copy Share Image
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One of the things that will keep The Front Page burning bright as long as newspapers are alive is the myth that… — Jay Carr Copy Share Image
I don't know what draws these other composers to opera, but for me, it's just this incredibly rich medium for storytelling. And… — Stephen Schwartz Copy Share Image
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I love the Russian absurdists - [Nikolai] Gogol,[Daniil] Kharms, and [Vladimir] Bulgakov. Even within the Russian experimentalists, there's a lineage of traditional… — Alexander Weinstein Copy Share Image
The hero, whether god or goddess, man or woman, the figure in a myth or the dreamer of a dream discovers and… — Joseph Campbell Copy Share Image
I was not really aware of the dystopian genre before I read 'The Handmaid's Tale.' Many poets as well, like John Donne… — Samantha Shannon Copy Share Image
If I have to pick one story that most influenced 'The Hunger Games,' it would be the Greek myth of Theseus, which… — Suzanne Collins Copy Share Image
I've never been very interested in literary narrative in movies, it always seems an obligatory trait and the least interesting of all… — Rick Alverson Copy Share Image
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