We are storytelling creatures, and as children we acquire language to tell those stories that we have inside us. — Jerome Bruner Copy Share Image
“What we put in and leave out of our stories tells us something about who we are.” — Eddie S. Glaude Jr Copy Share Image
The culture is eating nature; it's overpowering storytelling. Movies are turning into games - it's abut the image, not nuance. — Parker Posey Copy Share Image
People populate the darkness; with ghosts, with gods, with electrons, with tales. — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
I began to believe the fairy tales: You know, how we're all out there looking for our magical missing half. — Michael Bergin Copy Share Image
“Myths have a way of bringing what is unconscious to the surface and putting a face on what we cannot see.” — Terry Tempest Williams Copy Share Image
But I suspect that all writers come up with premises of some kind, fragments of narrative or scenarios, in the course of… — Nick Hornby Copy Share Image
For some reason, I write about crash-landed spaceships quite a lot and my wife is sick of hearing of hearing my ideas… — Erica Brown Copy Share Image
“Step by step the narrative split into a thousand stories, as if it had entered a gallery of mirrors, its identity fragmented… — Carlos Ruiz Zafón Copy Share Image
I'm not a sci-fi lover; I wasn't from the start. So perhaps I miss that passion for other worlds, other dimensions, that… — Paul McGann 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
The original and very basic 'Law & Order' series has always seemed to me to be 100-percent exposition, with no filler, no… — Tom Shales Copy Share Image
Curious things, habits. People themselves never knew they had them. [Witness for the Prosecution, also published in The Hound of Death and… — Agatha Christie Copy Share Image
“I come from a family of Cherokee master storytellers. Listening to stories, reading them, and creating new tales is my life. These… — Louise Ann Barton Copy Share Image
Christian nation mythologists pump themselves up with narratives of American exceptionalism and Christian domination. But sooner or later even their most devoted… — Sarah Posner Copy Share Image
“The heroic quest typically highlights a seemingly average person (think Thomas Anderson before he becomes Neo) who embarks on a perilous undertaking,… — Sol Luckman Copy Share Image
Children, only animals live entirely in the Here and Now. Only nature knows neither memory nor history. But man - let me… — Graham Swift Copy Share Image
Myths are public dreams, dreams are private myths. We must be willing to get rid of the life we planned, so as… — Joseph Campbell Copy Share Image
“That's all any of these myths have been trying to do. To take a huge, terrifying phenomenon, something you can only stare… — Cory O'Brien Copy Share Image
For narrative games, and also for the sake of the medium, we have to treat performance that way, as actors. You have… — Ashly Burch Copy Share Image
By definition it uses and plays and delights in time. It delights in the interlacing of chronologies and the consequences of that… — Chang-Rae Lee Copy Share Image
“New Age spirituality purports to promote change – its mantra is ‘transformation’ – but, in reality, it endorses the status quo. It… — Helen Morales Copy Share Image