All these lives," she said. "All the stories we never know." (125) — Elizabeth Strout Copy Share Image
“Like Wide Sargasso Sea and Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead, fanfiction asserts the rights of storytellers to take possession of characters and… — Anne Jamison Copy Share Image
“For the narrative to exist, so that it could be read and reread even if I was taken away. Stories outlive their… — Jodi Picoult Copy Share Image
Up to 1870, it was equally said of France and of Italy that they possessed no folk-tales. Yet, within fifteen years from… — Joseph Jacobs Copy Share Image
“To paint an image and to write a poem, is to reclaim the dignity and personal joy...it is an invitation for my… — Reclaiming my Life Isabella Koldras Copy Share Image
I was suckered in by the myth of the man [ William Burroughs] as much as by his work. — Oliver Harris Copy Share Image
I had a lot of friends, but none of them I felt super close with. Now that I'm older, I can look… — Ross Butler Copy Share Image
Mythology is composed by poets out of their insights and realizations. Mythologies are not invented; they are found. You can no more… — Joseph Campbell Copy Share Image
“I keep on going with this sad and hungry and sordid, this limping and mutilated story, because after all I want you… — Margaret Atwood Copy Share Image
You can have all the intentions you want and try and guide the narrative, but the narrative is irrelevant because it's how… — Mike Colter Copy Share Image
Every time the Tories get a bit of power, they rip off all the things I love... The mining industry. Milk. — Rhys Ifans Copy Share Image
“The eternal child. - We think that play and fairy tales belong to childhood: how shortsighted that is! As though we would… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
“There are certain bits of stories that, because of their nature, are rather dull. This is because very little happens in them.… — Adrienne Kress Copy Share Image
Begin your story with a sentence that will immediately grab hold of your listener's ears like a surly nun in a Catholic… — Amy Sedaris Copy Share Image
We tell myths over and over again, lest we forget who we are, lest we not understand that these tales take us… — Julie Taymor Copy Share Image
“But I suppose it’s often that way. The brave things in the old tales and songs, Mr. Frodo: adventures, as I used… — J.R.R. Tolkien Copy Share Image
I fell in love with poetry through storytelling, so my poetry tends to be fairly narrative. I like characters, I like having… — Sarah Kay Copy Share Image
History is the myth, the true myth, of man's fall made manifest in time. — Henry Miller Copy Share Image
“I don't know about you, the world is here to be mythologized. It has, therefore, no other end. Transforming into myth, to… — Ilhan Berk Copy Share Image
I see all art as a complement to telling people's stories. I'm in the storytelling business. I believe that the humanity that… — Oprah Winfrey Copy Share Image
“In a nation whose great informing myth is that it has no great informing myth, familiarity equaled timelessness” — David Foster Wallace Copy Share Image
“All stories are lessons. Fairy tales have a moral: Stay on the path. Don't trust wolves. Don't steal things, not even things… — Holly Black Copy Share Image
History is a long and endlessly interesting argument, where evidence is everything and storytelling is everything else. — Jill Lepore Copy Share Image
Important thing about myth is that it's not just something that you believe, a myth is essentially a program for action. And… — Karen Armstrong Copy Share Image
