My purpose is to make my narrative as truthful as possible. — George Armstrong Custer Copy Share Image
I love movies, I love television, I love narratives of all kinds. — Michael Cunningham Copy Share Image
You need more people to perpetuate a myth because if the people stop the myth is known to all. — Rick Santelli Copy Share Image
To me and my kind life itself is a story and we have to tell it in stories - that is the… — Rumer Godden Copy Share Image
We're all made of stories. When they finally put us underground, the stories are what will go on. — Charles de Lint Copy Share Image
Look at Jane Austen. Her characters derive in a reasonably straight line from fairy tales. — Andrew Davies Copy Share Image
Behind every myth lies a truth; beyond every legend is reality, as radiant (sometimes as chilling) as the story itself. — Phyllis McGinley Copy Share Image
Fairy tales read before bed tend to make me dream. They're all quite violent stories, as are my dreams. — Glen Duncan Copy Share Image
The old fairy tales are very, very violent, and these days I think we could do with a little less of it. — Julie Andrews Copy Share Image
Thanks to the proliferation of information being consumed on mobile devices and the Internet, management changed 'SportsCenter' from being a show where… — Rich Eisen Copy Share Image
I used to do a lot of story writing and storytelling coming up through grade school. By the time I got to… — Rhea Seehorn Copy Share Image
I don't read many popular histories like the ones I write. The building blocks for my research are scholarly monographs, and the… — Rick Perlstein Copy Share Image
I come from a filmmaking tradition and a storytelling background. So somehow I've emerged like a mutant who can straddle both worlds. — Alex Gibney Copy Share Image
In documentaries, there's a truth that unfolds unnaturally, and you get to chronicle it. In narratives, you have to create the situations… — Ava DuVernay Copy Share Image
I like to think that storytelling is something that can always bring success, if you tell it in the right way and… — Noah Kahan Copy Share Image
Our lives with all their miracles and wonders are merely a discontinuous string of incidents - until we create the narrative that… — Arlene Goldbard Copy Share Image
We've had fiction from the time of cave drawings. I think fiction, storytelling, and narrative in general will always exist in some… — Edwidge Danticat 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
I'm a big believer in pairing classics with contemporary literature, so students have the opportunity to see that literature is not a… — John Green Copy Share Image
“From books, I winnowed the glue that held together my psyche as it struggled to stay whole. It was from stories and… — J. Don Cook Copy Share Image
So much of today's film culture, in England and America, is based on lies, really. The industry is very ambitious, and success… — Joe Wright Copy Share Image
“We are each warriors of our own times. When we step out of our protective shell, we each encounter forces much more… — Kilroy J. Oldster Copy Share Image
“People didn't realize it, but they needed myths to survive, just as much now as when their forebears were alive. Perhaps more.… — Charles de Lint Copy Share Image
Folklore, legends, myths and fairy tales have followed childhood through the ages, for every healthy youngster has a wholesome and instinctive love… — L. Frank Baum Copy Share Image
Let the painter composing narrative pictures take pleasure in wealth and variety, and avoid repeating any part that occurs in it, so… — Leonardo da Vinci Copy Share Image
