“I am going to tell a story now, and though I've made a life out of writing words, this is the first… — Dexter Palmer Copy Share Image
The myth that 'old' guys can't write anything fresh is just a myth. — Steve Lukather Copy Share Image
When in doubt, the rule of threes is a rule that plays well with all of storytelling. When describing a thing? No… — Chuck Wendig Copy Share Image
At every moment of our lives, we all have one foot in a fairy tale and the other in the abyss. — Paulo Coelho Copy Share Image
There is no greater power on this earth than story.” Will paced the length of the room. “People think boundaries and borders… — Libba Bray Copy Share Image
[In mountaineering, if] we look for private experience rather than public history, even getting to the top becomes an optional narrative rather… — Rebecca Solnit Copy Share Image
I find it only natural for a storyteller to be interested in storytelling and, for anyone who spends the better part of… — Norman Lock Copy Share Image
“Besides, she likes my stories. They are like fairy tales, I suppose, full of kings and queens and adventures. Ma says people… — Kristin Kladstrup Copy Share Image
Our tree became the talking tree of the fairy tale; legends and stories nestled like birds in its branches. — Willa Cather Copy Share Image
A myth is the name of a terrible lie told by a smelly little brown person to a man in a white… — David Antin Copy Share Image
“Fairy tales and folk tales are for children and childlike people, not because they are little and inconsequential, but because they are… — Anthony Esolen Copy Share Image
We breathe, we think, we conceive of our lives as narratives. — Christopher Lehmann-Haupt Copy Share Image
“Statements make sense for somebody who needs advice. I’m not giving advice. I don’t instruct. At my best, I delight. That’s my… — Ron Koertge Copy Share Image
“The social function of narrative is not limited to 'primitive' people sitting around the fire telling each other where Fire came from… — Ursula K. Le Guin Copy Share Image
When I was in New Orleans, I was in a grocery store and a woman came up to me and she said,… — Kathy Bates Copy Share Image
It wasn't long after I began writing Star Wars that I realized the story was more than a single film could hold.… — George Lucas Copy Share Image
“Life is a collection of memories and feelings. Mawkish sentimentally urges us to engage in artistic overtures, we yearn to share with… — Kilroy J. Oldster Copy Share Image
“If you would know this country, you must know its stories.” — Billy Marshall Stoneking Copy Share Image
Lies are just another kind of storytelling, but with the very distinct and enlivening motive of desperation. Since writers are by nature… — John Hodgman Copy Share Image