“One doesn't intentionally to alter the truth, just enhance it and make it more memorable.” — John Alexander Copy Share Image
Had they [the Tories] been in the wilderness they would have complained of the Ten Commandments. Remark. — John Bright Copy Share Image
Narrative is linear, but action has breadth and depth as well as height and is solid. — Thomas Carlyle Copy Share Image
My priority is my books, at least at this point. What I have to do is write the narrative of this time. — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
“A long time ago someone told me that a story will tell itself, when it's ready.” — Jodi Picoult Copy Share Image
I don't think the world objectively exists the way we think it exists. There's a constant sort of storytelling process. — Charlie Kaufman Copy Share Image
“One of the best cures for a reluctant reader, after all, is a tale they cannot stop themselves from reading.” — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
My dad did a wonderful feat of memory and storytelling by taking T S Eliot's 'Four Quartets' on the road in a… — Freddie Fox Copy Share Image
Zachary Jernigan can't write a bad story. He couldn't even if he tried. Each and every time I start one of his… — David Anthony Durham Copy Share Image
I've always loved writing, and the impulse for me is storytelling. I don't sit down and think: 'What political message can I… — Randa Abdel-Fattah Copy Share Image
Truth, naked, unblushing truth, the first virtue of all serious history, must be the sole recommendation of this personal narrative. — Edward Gibbon Copy Share Image
There can be no stronger proof of the impoverishment of our contemporary culture than the popular - though profoundly mistaken - definition… — Rollo May Copy Share Image
Social media companies must combine their mastery of the latest in real-time, location based or augmented reality technologies in the service of… — Simon Mainwaring Copy Share Image
Myths are stories about people who become too big for their lives temporarily, so that they crash into other lives or brush… — Anne Carson Copy Share Image
There will always be storytelling, whether it's on the big silver screen, or it's your television or your iPhone or whatever, people… — Stellan Skarsgard Copy Share Image
“I bleed words. I dream in narrative. I live in infinite worlds. I befriend figmental characters. I wish on stars in other… — Richelle E. Goodrich Copy Share Image
There are books full of great writing that don't have very good stories. Read sometimes for the story... don't be like the… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
I'm not a big fan of kids' movies that have this knowing snarkiness to them or this post-modern take on storytelling. I… — John C. Reilly Copy Share Image
I believe that this idea of story or myth or this thing that Joseph Campbell writes about is sort of an inter-connective… — Damon Lindelof Copy Share Image
“Enchanted castle corridors are the right place to "get in" research on fairy tales - it's a fairy tale, and fairy tales… — Penina Mezei Copy Share Image
“I write for the kid in me. . . . Often when I’m working on a story, I’ll find myself laughing at… — Elvira Woodruff Copy Share Image
“I've been actively engaged with mythic imagery ever since I picked up that Rackham book, but it really came into focus for… — Brian Froud Copy Share Image
“No wonder that the ghost and goblin stories had a new zest. No wonder that the blood of the more timid grew… — John Berwick Harwood Copy Share Image
“Once upon a time all the men of mind and genius in the world became of one belief—that is to say, of… — F. Scott Fitzgerald Copy Share Image