“Surely she knows --like I do--that fairy tales are just stories. That happy endings aren't real.” — Jodi Picoult Copy Share Image
Acting isn't necessarily pretending. It's storytelling. It's giving someone your perspective on something. — Crystal Bowersox Copy Share Image
“people don't really want original stories. they want different versions of the same story. this is called meta-narrative.” — Chester Elijah Branch Copy Share Image
I've yet to meet somebody who said, 'Your stories are so revolting I couldn't read them.' — Ian Mcewan Copy Share Image
“It is just that narrative can be lethal when used in the wrong places.” — Nassim Nicholas Taleb Copy Share Image
“What a tale he's told, what a bitter bowl of war he's drunk to the dregs.” — Virgil Copy Share Image
I'm a super specific songwriter. I always have been. I think the most impactful songs are specific. Broad storytelling just isn't fun… — Olivia Rodrigo Copy Share Image
“I realize that for all my penchant in believing that there's more to the world than what we can see, that folk… — Charles de Lint Copy Share Image
It is quite surreal having a film made about your life. The whole process of turning real life into drama is interesting… — Heather Brooke Copy Share Image
I love the idea that people are listening to "Tales" during all types of activities. Knitting in their favorite chair, rock climbing,… — Glenn McQuaid Copy Share Image
“Reality exists only through experience, and it must be personal experience. However, once related, even personal experience becomes a narrative.” — Gao Xingjian Copy Share Image
In a general sense, to convert any short story, novel, play, or opera into a movie, you have to re-rig it. Even… — Alexander Payne Copy Share Image
“Rage Against the Dying Light is my fairy tale, even though it is based on a true story. For everyone knows that… — Jan Surasky Copy Share Image
Politics is a brutal business and since 2010 the Tories have been engaged in hand-to-hand combat with the opposition, trying primarily to… — Cathy Newman Copy Share Image
“But I suppose it’s often that way. The brave things in the old tales and songs, Mr. Frodo: adventures, as I used… — J.R.R. Tolkien Copy Share Image
I do not know who first invented the myth of sexual equality. But it is a myth willfully fostered and nourished by… — Phyllis McGinley Copy Share Image
I love fairy tales because of their haunting beauty and magical strangeness. They are set in worlds where anything can happen. Frogs… — Kate Forsyth Copy Share Image
I think I'm still chewing on my years as a foreign correspondent. I found myself covering catastrophes - war, uprising, famine, refugee… — Geraldine Brooks Copy Share Image
“Even as the brain is dying, it refuses to stop generating a narrative, the scaffolding upon which it weaves cause and effect,… — David McRaney Copy Share Image
“Andersen himself believed that many of his finest stories were written after travels to Rome, Naples, Constantinople, and Athens in 1841. He… — Maria Tatar Copy Share Image
Marrying video, sound, and words can create incredibly compelling storytelling, and when you add the political piece, you get a special combination:… — Hallie Jackson Copy Share Image
“Images are not quite ideas, they are stiller than that, with less implications outside themselves. And they are not myth, they do… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Old wives' tales are not enough in a day when old wives and old men, too, are constantly moving away from their… — Vincent Massey Copy Share Image
“What would a narrative of happiness be like? All that can be described is what prepares it, and then what destroys it.” — Andre Gide Copy Share Image
As I continue to mature and navigate the world, there are so many myths that are dispelled for me. — Tim Gunn Copy Share Image
When I'm doing a store in a country, I always like to consider the concept of the country and the city. — Christian Louboutin Copy Share Image
“believing in myths is comforting in the moment; in the same way it’s comforting to pretend you can fly when you’re falling.” — Noah Lugeons Copy Share Image
“A story. This was the key to immortality. The things that made kings quiver and deities distrustful: Nothing but a tale.” — Roshani Chokshi Copy Share Image
It's a myth that the border can't be enforced. It can be enforced. — Dianne Feinstein Copy Share Image
I write characters and stories that move me, and I write from the heart. — Robert Crais Copy Share Image
“The threads can always be traced back to some earlier tale, and to the tales that preceded that:” — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I like the idea of a big caesura between the narratives, a space which readers can fill in with their own speculative… — Jonathan Coe Copy Share Image
Fairy tales to me are never happy, sweet stories. They're moral stories about overcoming the dark side and the bad. — Joe Wright Copy Share Image
I guess that storytelling would be for me to keep making art that touches people in a way that nothing else can. — Karla Souza Copy Share Image
What I want to write about has changed somewhat, and the scope of the storytelling has changed accordingly. — Terry Brooks Copy Share Image
“Till you outgrow white narrative, you'll never learn the human story.” — Abhijit Naskar Copy Share Image
The myth-making machine is the mimetic contagion that disappears behind the myth it generates. — Rene Girard Copy Share Image
