Finding one's voice - or creating a narrative voice that has the power to carry your story - is the hardest part. — Danielle Trussoni Copy Share Image
The myth of the self-made man, has to be profoundly hypocritical: it is the self-serving demonstration that a lie is the truth — Che Guevara Copy Share Image
“When a solid first draft of an original tale is complete...you feel as if you could do anything.” — Christy Hall Copy Share Image
“When we believe a wounding story, our whole world is diminished.” — Sharon Salzberg Copy Share Image
Stories are important...They can be more important than anything. If they carry the truth. — Patrick Ness Copy Share Image
Before you can challenge a received narrative about the past, you should be expert in its established contours. — Heather Mac Donald Copy Share Image
Storytelling and copulation are the two chief forms of amusement in the South. Theyre inexpensive and easy to procure. — Robert Penn Warren Copy Share Image
I've always been a super-fan of television storytelling. It took me a while to figure that out in a career capacity, but… — Julie Plec Copy Share Image
Artistic symbols and myths speak out of the primordial, preconscious realm of the mind which is powerful and chaotic. Both symbol and… — Rollo May Copy Share Image
I was feeling really restless in my hard-rock band. I wanted to learn more about storytelling in music, and that's what country… — Lindsey Haun Copy Share Image
Some of the evil of my tale may have been inherent in our circumstances. For years we lived anyhow with one another… — T. E. Lawrence Copy Share Image
A lot of fairy tales are thinly disguised hostility raps against parents. Kids know that they can't make it on their own,… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
“Like a tree or a river, a story can have many branches or tributaries—but its power comes from the root, the origin… — Lawrence Nault Copy Share Image
I remember that - you know, I didn't receive a formal education. I was educated in the Montevideo cafe, in the cafes… — Eduardo Galeano Copy Share Image
Good writing is about finding and exploiting anecdotes that resonate with the reader. In storytelling, it's OK if you only make one… — Ben Clymer Copy Share Image
“The literary fairy tale became an acceptable social symbolic form through which conventionalized motifs, characters, and plots were selected, composed, arranged, and… — Jack Zipes Copy Share Image
I am between the Tories and the Lib Dems. I am fiscally conservative. I'm for strong foreign policy, but socially very liberal.… — Garry Kasparov Copy Share Image
“In actuality, myths are neither fiction nor history. Nor are most myths—and this will surprise some people—an amalgamation of fiction and history.… — Tom Robbins Copy Share Image
“I shivered. The story was true. The Wizard of Oz had been real. Dorothy Gale had really been swept up by a… — Danielle Paige Copy Share Image
“Narrative nonfiction is an act of conception and construction; it is formation of a personal legend from the mist of memory using… — Kilroy J. Oldster Copy Share Image
“I can see how I could write a bold account of myself as a passionate man who rose from humble beginnings to… — Garrison Keillor Copy Share Image
“I keep on going with this sad and hungry and sordid, this limping and mutilated story, because after all I want you… — Margaret Atwood Copy Share Image
When I was at college, the idea of fashion was more immediate to me, whereas art photography, the depth of it, was… — Tim Walker Copy Share Image
“AS ALL FAIRY TALES DO, this story begins with the simplest of words: once upon a time….” — Elizabeth Rudnick Copy Share Image
When I used to read fairy-tales, I fancied that kind of thing never happened, and now here I am in the middle… — Lewis Carroll Copy Share Image
We need storytelling. Otherwise life just goes on and on, like the number Pi. — Ang Lee Copy Share Image
“Some stories have to be written because no one would believe the absurdity of it all.” — Shannon L. Alder Copy Share Image
Death is the sanction of everything that the storyteller can tell. He has borrowed his authority from death. — Walter Benjamin Copy Share Image
I love all that stuff like 'Tales From The Crypt,' 'Twlight Zone,' and 'Amazing Stories.' — Dan Fogler Copy Share Image
“Stories are about endings,’ he’d said. ‘They don’t mean anything unless they come to an end.” — Paul Cornell Copy Share Image
It's not just dead men who tell no tales. Live ones don't have much to say for themselves, either. — Michael Feldman Copy Share Image
Diversity in sound, just like diversity in storytelling, is a great thing. — Bear McCreary Copy Share Image
I'm a storyteller who uses all of the beauty and power of cinema to tell tales of human struggles for positive social… — Pamela Yates Copy Share Image
I am simply not interested, at this point, in creating narrative scenes between characters. — Lydia Davis Copy Share Image
I'm ultimately drawn to film many kinds of stories if they are sort of about unlocking the secrets of our human potential. — Karyn Kusama Copy Share Image
“Human beings live in their myths. They only endure their realities.” — Robert Anton Wilson Copy Share Image
A tale is born from an image, and the image extends and creates a network of meanings that are always equivocal. — Italo Calvino Copy Share Image
Boys like romantic tales; but babies like realistic tales-because they find them romantic. — Gilbert K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
