“We are a people who tell stories, Layla. You will have your own story to tell.” — Nevien Shaabneh Copy Share Image
I thought I could capture the stories of the city on paper. I thought I could write about the horrors of the… — Grant Morrison Copy Share Image
I never start with the story first, which is maybe obvious, because the narrative line of my films is really not that… — Jim Jarmusch Copy Share Image
As I live and am a man, this is an unexaggerated tale - my dreams become the substances of my life. — Samuel Taylor Coleridge Copy Share Image
Writing children's books gives a writer a very strong sense of narrative drive. — Helen Dunmore Copy Share Image
A part of what makes myths live is their multiplicity, the way different voices retell them in every generation. Homer survives because… — Madeline Miller Copy Share Image
“Like Seita and Setsuko, like Chihiro - like Sophie Hatter who disappears from her dreary life into a world of talking fireballs… — Karl Thomas Smith Copy Share Image
A Crime So Monstrous is a remarkably brave and unflinching piece of reportage and storytelling. Ben Skinner bears witness, sharing stories so… — Alex Kotlowitz Copy Share Image
My first love is definitely performing, but I just love storytelling, and that's another aspect of it. — Rhea Seehorn Copy Share Image
Children are not deceived by fairy-tales; they are often and gravely deceived by school-stories. Adults are not deceived by science-fiction ; they… — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
“I'll write long sad tales about people in the legend of my life - This part is my part of the movie,… — Jack Kerouac Copy Share Image
Tragedy is a great storytelling form. It worked extremely well for Shakespeare. It worked extremely well for Jim Cameron with 'Titanic.' — Carlton Cuse Copy Share Image
“There it is; the light across the water. Your story. Mine. His. It has to be seen to be believed. And it… — Jeanette Winterson Copy Share Image
I think because I am a physical person, and because my way of expressing and performing and storytelling or explaining has always… — Zoe Bell Copy Share Image
Of all the tall tales, I think my favorite is the one about Eli Whitney and the interchangeable parts. — Jack Handey Copy Share Image
“All stories in which children have adventures and successes which are possible, in the sense that they do not break the laws… — Joe Rigney Copy Share Image
When we moved from 'Ice Age' to 'Ice Age 2,' we were really stuck; a story didn't just organically emerge. While I'm… — Chris Meledandri Copy Share Image
“The object of storytelling, like the object of magic, is not to explain or to resolve, but rather to create and to… — Tim O'Brien Copy Share Image
The story of the memoir is a story of me creating certain narratives so that I could live with my own experience… — Melissa Febos Copy Share Image
“He was beginning to understand how those ridiculous tales had made her a prisoner of others’ expectations.” — Tessa Dare Copy Share Image
