“Myths are lies; but I believe in the power of myths the way I believe in rocks.” — S.M. Stirling Copy Share Image
We're lucky to be in the middle of a TV renaissance. It's the healthiest storytelling medium in our culture. — Nick Antosca Copy Share Image
“others swapped lewd jokes and fictitious tales of several kinds of booty scored.” — Hugh Howey Copy Share Image
As long as your storytelling and emotional depth are intact, that's what people will focus on. — Jake Barton Copy Share Image
I haven't thought about getting into production. I'm interested in the creative aspect of storytelling. — Sakshi Tanwar Copy Share Image
That's what culture is based on, the passing down of a certain narrative by imitation. — Bradford Cox Copy Share Image
Wherever the poetry of myth is interpreted as biography, history, or science, it is killed. — Joseph Campbell Copy Share Image
“Sometimes we have to inspire and encourage ourselves, through our personal narrative. And we start with what we know.” — Deborah L. Parker Copy Share Image
“Everybody loves a good story, but good storytelling doesn't come easy to everybody. It's a skill that takes a lifetime to master.… — Austin Kleon Copy Share Image
“Storytelling is an escape from the jail of the self, leading to the ultimate adventure--seeing life through the eyes of another.” — Tobias Wolff Copy Share Image
“Fairy tales represent hundreds of years of stories based on thousands of years of stories told by hundreds, thousands, perhaps even millions… — Kate Bernheimer Copy Share Image
“There are indeed many wonders, and with regard to the stories people tell one another, it may be that such tales go… — Pindar Copy Share Image
Fairytales were maps formed of blood and hair and bones; they were the knots of the sub-conscious unwound. Every word in every… — Alice Hoffman Copy Share Image
If you hear a statistic, you will make up a story to go with it, because our brains are organized on narrative.… — Gloria Steinem Copy Share Image
In The Tale of Despereaux, there is a lot of darkness, a lot of despair. There's also a lot of light, redemption,… — Kate DiCamillo Copy Share Image
I always like things to be as complicated as possible. I don't like an easy ending. I don't like when all the… — Miriam Shor Copy Share Image
“A story, I had learned, through my own constant knitting and reknitting of remembered words, can lead us back to ourselves, to… — Vaddey Ratner Copy Share Image
“ Confession time: I doubt I would ever have picked up one of Marjorie’s books, had I not met her in person.… — Bill Willingham Copy Share Image
We want to do things that are interesting, great storytelling, some of it is gonna be more fun and funny, some of… — John Legend Copy Share Image
The holiday season is a time for storytelling, and whether you are hearing the story of a candelabra staying lit for more… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Many male habitues of massage parlors, like Talese, did not like solitary masturbation; in the parlance of the younger generation, it was… — Gay Talese Copy Share Image
“How should we be able to forget those myths that are at the beginning of all peoples, the myths about dragons that… — Rainer Maria Rilka Copy Share Image
“The best stories proceed from a mysterious truth-seeking impulse that narrative has when revised extensively; they are complex and baffling and ambiguous;… — George Saunders Copy Share Image
One of my heroes, G.K. Chesterton, said, "The old fairy tales endure forever. The old fairy tale makes the hero a normal… — Regina Doman Copy Share Image
“And fairy tales have no meaning when the stars align and Fortune spins her wheel, weaving her own story for your heart.” — Juliette Cross Copy Share Image
Merely corroborative detail, intended to give artistic verisimilitude to an otherwise bald and unconvincing narrative. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The point is that the reader's journey through our site is a narrative experience. Our job is to make the narrative satisfying. — Mark Bernstein Copy Share Image
There's a great myth about cartoonists, writers and people that are on TV. — Shel Silverstein Copy Share Image
The viewer is more likely to project their own narrative onto the picture. — Gregory Crewdson Copy Share Image
We're dead as a species if we don't tell stories, because then we don't know who we are. — Alan Rickman Copy Share Image
I'm certainly not surprised by the passion of the youth for our myths. Mythology is almost a part of an Indian's DNA. — Amish Tripathi 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
The myth about me as a footballer has grown: I am now the lost Maradona of Norway. — Jo Nesbo Copy Share Image
Sometimes we just have to forget about the nightmare and move on with the fairy tale !! — AaRon Copy Share Image
The stories you believe to be true are the ones your life will become — Eric Micha'el Leventhal Copy Share Image
The crime part is the engine that moves the narrative and allows me to write the other things I want to write… — George Pelecanos Copy Share Image
“This is what happens when an outlaw kidnaps a scholar of myths and legends.” — doris egan Copy Share Image
“...not stories, but histories. For this too I learned, that a storyteller's tale may end, but history goes on always.” — Jacqueline Carey Copy Share Image
Nothing exists if a store doesn't buy it and you're not able to get it. — Carrie Donovan Copy Share Image
