“By reading narrative, we escape the anxiety that attacks us when we try to say something about the world.” — Umberto Eco Copy Share Image
Every myth is psychologically symbolic. Its narratives and images are to be read, therefore, not literally, but as metaphors. — Joseph Campbell Copy Share Image
It's all those stories and how they braid together that tells us who and what and where we are — Charles de Lint Copy Share Image
It is not easy to free myth from reality or rear this fellow up to lutch, lurch with them in the tranced… — Earle Birney Copy Share Image
After nourishment, shelter and companionship, stories are the thing we need most in the world. — Philip Pullman Copy Share Image
“If thinking wants to think God, then it must endeavor to tell stories.” — Eberhard Jüngel Copy Share Image
There's a sense in which the media narrative diminishes me. I resist the temptation to fit into a preconceived narrative. — Ritchie Torres Copy Share Image
Originally, poetry creates the myth, while the prose-writer draws its portrait. — Jean-Paul Sartre Copy Share Image
Our experience with knowledge, the way we know things, is not that neat. It doesn't fit into a grand narrative, the way… — Richard Misrach Copy Share Image
I am and always have been fascinated with people, and I have a very good time coming up with the narratives of… — Bennett Miller Copy Share Image
From early on there were two things that filled my life - music and storytelling, both of them provoked by my father.… — Athol Fugard Copy Share Image
“I was starting to believe I was a character in a greater story, which is why the elements of story made sense… — Donald Miller Copy Share Image
A beautifully written tale that lives somewhere between landscape and memory, where regret becomes a prison, and a story told often enough… — Brunonia Barry Copy Share Image
I was interested in dark subject matter for sure, including folklore, fairy tales, mythology, archetypal stories of people going into the bowels… — Robert Eggers Copy Share Image
American movies are often very good at mining those great underlying myths that make films robustly travel across class, age, gender, culture. — Tom Hooper Copy Share Image
I was excited to discover, in this tale by Eliade, the key themes that I most hope to understand better time, consciousness… — Francis Ford Coppola Copy Share Image
“warming tale with a message of hope’ Daily Mail ‘An instantly bestselling memoir that, beside its heart-warming tale of their friendship, offers… — James Bowen Copy Share Image
“We can never stop searching for Heaven, since there is always more of it than we can see. There, as in those… — Patricia Storace Copy Share Image
I had a point of view, which was different. I looked at magic as theater, as storytelling, and I tried to have… — David Copperfield Copy Share Image
I belong to an ancient, idle, wild and useless tribe, perhaps I am even one of the last members of it, who… — Isak Dinesen Copy Share Image
Storytelling is an act of cruelty. We are cruel to our characters because to be kind is to invite boredom, and boredom… — Chuck Wendig Copy Share Image
“Most happy stories are fantasies that never happened. A form of wish fulfillment. (...) Telling happy stories that actually happened lends a… — Megan McCafferty Copy Share Image
Sometimes I am a collector of data, and only a collector, and am likely to be gross and miserly, piling up notes,… — Charles Fort Copy Share Image
Heinrich Zimmerhe had a little saying : The best things cant be told - because they are transcendent, inexpressible truths. The second… — Joseph Campbell Copy Share Image
