If you know why someone is doing what they're doing, why they're behaving the way they are, then that's your job to… — Cate Blanchett Copy Share Image
“Each word was shaped with certainty, and I felt, more strongly than ever before in my life, that I had at last… — Kate Forsyth Copy Share Image
“And if we only organize our life according to the principle which teaches us always to hold to what is difficult, then… — Rainer Maria Rilke Copy Share Image
“The belief that myths are somehow less true than the symbolic dream we call 'reality' may be the greatest myth of all.” — Eric Micha'el Leventhal Copy Share Image
There are some tales not for telling, whether because they are too long, too precious, too laughable, too painful, too easy to… — Emma Donoghue Copy Share Image
Home is a blueprint of memory...Finding home is crucial to the act of writing. Begin here. With what you know. With the… — Georgia Heard Copy Share Image
We read the weird tales in newspapers to crowd out the even weirder stuff inside us. — Alain de Botton Copy Share Image
I could a tale unfold whose lightest word Would harrow up thy soul, freeze thy young blood, Make thy two eyes like… — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
“There is an Anglo-Saxon form of riddling that plays with the polarities of words like bright and dark, cold and warm, throwing… — Gerald Hausman Copy Share Image
“Yes, if the stones that we walked on could talk, they would surely tell our story.” — Nico J. Genes Copy Share Image
I'm in the storytelling business, and so you're always drawn to the unusual. And early on, I discovered that's the easiest way… — Malcolm Gladwell Copy Share Image
Humanity's legacy of stories and storytelling is the most precious we have. All wisdom is in our stories and songs. A story… — Doris Lessing Copy Share Image
Adults need more complex narratives. They have their own narratives. The main characters are themselves. — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
“If everything went well, there would be no stories to tell. So, let's add another one to the list!” — Helen Jonsen Copy Share Image
Storytelling wise, you've gotta take it as far as you can possibly take it with each individual movie. If you're holding out… — Rian Johnson Copy Share Image
Of course, it's absurd that we trust the Tories with our day-to-day reality, as so many of them don't really inhabit it.… — Frankie Boyle Copy Share Image
The human brain has evolved the capacity to impose a narrative, complete with chronology and cause-and-effect logic, on whatever it encounters, no… — Robin Marantz Henig Copy Share Image
Research can be a boon to a novelist - there are more things in heaven and Earth than can be dreamt of… — Michelle Dean Copy Share Image
You have to think of your brand as a kind of myth. A myth is a compelling story that is archetypal, if… — Deepak Chopra Copy Share Image
Storytelling draws on the magic of language to created Elsewheres. Writers use a linguistic sleight-of-hand to take an attribute, attach them to… — Maria Tatar Copy Share Image
“I want the fairy tale, Brennan,” Memphis said, not caring who heard him. “I want this,” he said as he motioned to… — Sloane Kennedy Copy Share Image
“When you talk to an author or an artist, you’re only ever getting half the story. We are crafting narratives for you.… — Phoebe North Copy Share Image
What you demand from storytelling is a moral - even political - import. I tend to shun that didactic aspect. — Aleksandar Hemon Copy Share Image
