All the fairy tales of Aladdin, or the invisible Gyges, or the talisman that opens kings' palaces, or the enchanted halls underground… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
“In older myths, the dark road leads downward into the Underworld, where Persephone is carried off by Hades, much against her will,… — Terri Windling Copy Share Image
“I’m a novelist,” Ruth said. “I can’t help it. My narrative preferences are all I’ve got.” — Ruth Ozeki Copy Share Image
“Comprehending at one bound the myth of Demeter and knowing that she was Demeter, that the fountain between her thighs was my… — Kate Millett Copy Share Image
There are stories still in existence that I wrote when I was five. However, I did not get published until I was… — Tom Robbins Copy Share Image
But the biggest challenge overall was narrowing down the complex narrative elements into a clean and straightforward story while maintaining a sense… — Sharmeen Obaid-Chinoy Copy Share Image
“There fared a mother driven forth Out of an inn to roam; In the place where she was homeless All men are… — G.K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
I read a handful of memoirs to get a sense of what the genre meant. I needed to learn the fundamentals of… — Tara Westover Copy Share Image
I so wish to work with Sanjay Leela Bhansali because his creativity is of a different level. His vision, his style of… — Ishita Dutta Copy Share Image
I'm partial to epic poetry, which might be surprising given that I don't write poetry at all. The combination of rollicking storytelling… — Jennifer Egan Copy Share Image
Wendy Doniger has spent decades collecting not only myths from ancient texts but stories of all kinds from novels, movies, newspapers about… — Roberto Calasso Copy Share Image
Myths are stories that express meaning, morality or motivation. Whether they are true or not is irrelevant. — Michael Shermer Copy Share Image
Kafka's evocations are, rather, unconscious and almost sub-archetypal, the little-kid stuff from which myths derive; this is why we tend to call… — David Foster Wallace Copy Share Image
“These tales, without exception, express the truth that justice triumphs in the end. They all contain the idea that it is worth… — Gyula Illyes Copy Share Image
“He had entered the rough world of men, where a man's acts follow him wherever he goes in the form of story.” — David Malouf Copy Share Image
I think that any good storytelling lends itself to closing a chapter but also knowing that there's a few more volumes beyond… — Milo Ventimiglia Copy Share Image
“At critical moments in the life of individuals and of societies, it is not necessarily the facts that are needed as much… — Michael Meade Copy Share Image
When J.J. [Abrams] called Lisa [Joy] and myself, he pitched us this idea of, what if we turn the structure around and… — Jonathan Nolan Copy Share Image
“Now Christianity proposes a completely different account of how history comes to a climax and what precisely constitutes the new order of… — Robert Barron Copy Share Image
“Fairy tales are full of girls who wait, who endure, who suffer. Good girls. Obedient girls. Girls who crush nettles until their… — Holly Black Copy Share Image
Characters last. Beautiful writing lasts. A compelling narrative lasts. Art survives long after ideas go extinct.... — Joel Achenbach Copy Share Image
Losing all the preconceptions that I had about storytelling, about the world, you know, and learning to see the world from a… — Ciro Guerra Copy Share Image
With storytelling, you have to see yourself as the hero in the movie of your own life, and I kind of see… — Baron Vaughn Copy Share Image
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