Objects let you tell a narrative that encompasses everybody. Texts don't. — Neil MacGregor Copy Share Image
I've always loved news. I've always loved storytelling and being where the scene is. — Abby Huntsman Copy Share Image
“Fairy tales are best read as entertainment,” Harry said. “Not as a guide to life.” — Lisa Kleypas Copy Share Image
“No one wants to sit through a drawn-out tale any more than they want a third nipple” — Andrew Cormier Copy Share Image
As an author of narrative history, I read a lot of history books. — Nathaniel Philbrick Copy Share Image
I'm very interested in how we take ownership of our own stories and our own lives. — Derren Brown Copy Share Image
In my store, I don't do anything political. There are no signs up, and I'm not pushing anyone. — Rick Harrison Copy Share Image
“It feels as honest as the day is crummy that I begin this tale of total desperation and woe with me, my… — James Patterson Copy Share Image
I get very excited by these hoity-toity directors with their bells and whistles, but I find simple storytelling done really well just… — Kathy Burke Copy Share Image
Oh, can I really believe the poet's tales, that when one first sees the object of one's love, one imagines one has… — Soren Kierkegaard Copy Share Image
Storytelling comes naturally to humans, but since we live in an unnatural world, we sometimes need a little help doing what we'd… — Dan Harmon Copy Share Image
I took lots of photographs and had planned to write a treatise on how it worked, but I quickly got bored with… — Kit Williams Copy Share Image
“We should not delude ourselves into thinking that our historical narratives, as commonly constructed, are anything more than retrofits.” — Niall Ferguson Copy Share Image
Not all Peter Greenaway's stuff is sequential, narrative story. Some of it is like an art installation and I'm not particularly interested… — Martin Freeman Copy Share Image
Storytelling is storytelling. You still play by the same narrative rules. The technology is completely different. I don't use one piece of… — James Cameron Copy Share Image
Usually at the end of each story we're thrown clear out of the story's world and then we're given a new world… — Junot Diaz Copy Share Image
“Once that work has permeated the mainstream—once it’s found “a host body,” in David Brock’s phrase—then comes the “pivot.” Heroes and villains… — Joshua Green Copy Share Image
In New York and L.A., there is sort of that silent competition to be on the cutting edge of something. You end… — Sloane Crosley Copy Share Image
Incredibly deep research combines with the talents of a fine historian and writer to produce superb narrative history. The true character and… — Robert M. Utley Copy Share Image
I do a lot of urban fantasy, which is modern-day cities, but you've got magic, you've got fairies running around, or cryptozoological… — Seanan McGuire Copy Share Image
Believing that navel-gazing in and of itself can transform itself into something that means something for society. I mean, we are communicative… — Kehinde Wiley Copy Share Image
“Novel is a particular form of narrative./ And narrative is a phenomenon which extends considerably beyond the scope of literature; it is… — Michel Butor Copy Share Image
I think of myself as a storytelling, and one of the reasons why people have held my stuff close to them is… — Neal Adams Copy Share Image
