While the story about the hunt for bin Laden has been exhaustively reported and the key sources and witnesses are in agreement… — Peter Bergen Copy Share Image
Good storytelling doesn't have to be in the form of the classics. It doesn't have to be revered by everybody. In fact,… — Bryan Cranston Copy Share Image
An epic is not made by piecing together a set of heroic lays, adjusting their discrepancies and making them into a continuous… — Lascelles Abercrombie Copy Share Image
“I needed a story. Something local, but juicy. And more than just newsworthy. I was holding out for gasp-worthy. And I found… — Elyse Friedman Copy Share Image
As a writer, Chris Columbus was a big influence. 'The Goonies' was the first movie I ever saw that kids speak normally… — Adam Green Copy Share Image
“The surface world may be as much a myth to the subterraneans as the underworld is to us.” — Priscilla Vogelbacher Copy Share Image
So we make stories of our own, in fevered and envious imitation of our Maker, hoping that we'll tell, by chance, what… — Clive Barker Copy Share Image
“As the video game designer and writer James Wallis puts it, “Human beings like stories. Our brains have a natural affinity not… — Jonathan Gottschall Copy Share Image
I was the British spy who had come out of the woodwork and told it how it really was, and anything I… — John le Carre Copy Share Image
“And, as with all retold tales that are in people's hearts, there are only good and bad things and black and white… — John Steinbeck Copy Share Image
First person narrative is a very effective tool but you have to know as a writer how to make it work. — James McBride Copy Share Image
Storytelling was the most honored of all talents, for it benefited everyone. — Stephenie Meyer Copy Share Image
“In Russian fairy tales, the narrative flows a little differently. In those stories, you won’t find a tale for Cinderella, one for… — Catherynne M. Valente Copy Share Image
Conventional forms of narrative allow for different points of view, but for this book I wanted a structure whereby each of the… — Penelope Lively Copy Share Image
Some people feel like you need to have a very specialized understanding of music to have the authority to talk about it.… — Henry Jackman Copy Share Image
With iron and blood, it seems, and from the rich depths of the earth, John Griswold has fashioned a classic American novel,… — Bob Shacochis Copy Share Image
A fairy tale is the kind of story in which one king goes to another king to borrow a cup of sugar — Angela Carter Copy Share Image
“Iff replied that the Plentimaw Fishes were what he called 'hunger artists' — 'Because when they are hungry they swallow stories through… — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image
“This was how normal people survived their own fairy tales. They became their own kind of monster.” — Emily Lloyd-Jones Copy Share Image
Unlike other books or TV shows or sometimes life, my narrative worlds are stripped of implicit moral centers. There is only what… — Chris Abani Copy Share Image
I think you always need to take new, big risks from a storytelling point of view. — Chris Chibnall Copy Share Image
“Any particular term—myth, legend, saga, folktale, and so forth—tends to be used in so many differing ways by different people that without… — R.W.L. Moberly Copy Share Image
