“dream interpretation were ways of converting our little personal miseries into big robust myths” — Justin Evans Copy Share Image
Vulgar and obscene, the papers run rumors daily about people in show business, tales of wicked ways and witless affairs. — Carroll O'Connor Copy Share Image
Actors have an opportunity to use storytelling as a way to solve pain. — Nicolas Cage Copy Share Image
“The power of your story may not lie in its drama, but in its absolutely perfect relationship to your cause.” — John Capecci and Timothy Cage Copy Share Image
“The same principles that make up a good story also make up a good life.” — Donald Miller Copy Share Image
I acquired a hunger for fairy tales in the dark days of blackout and blitz in the Second World War. — A. S. Byatt Copy Share Image
I remember when I was like 9, 10, 11 going into stores and saying, 'Wow! I wish I had this.' — Skai Jackson Copy Share Image
“If you tell stories, you like nothing so much as to tell them to people who want to listen.” — Frances Hodgson Burnett Copy Share Image
“If someone tells you what a story is about, they are probably right. If they tell you that that is all a… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
Everybody has a wicked side, whether they are six or sixty, and yet so often storytelling draws a sharp line between good… — Christopher Meledandri Copy Share Image
In the field of aesthetic theory, humans are pattern-seeking creatures. That can be seen in terms of musical structures, patternmaking, even in… — Kehinde Wiley Copy Share Image
What we refer to confidently as memory is really a form of storytelling that goes on continually in the mind and often… — William Maxwell Copy Share Image
Daft Wee Stories' is, as the title says, daft wee stories. I just sort of rattled them out, tried to make them… — Limmy Copy Share Image
“Wish not for treasure you can hold, No gleaming jewels, bright and cold, For finer still than pearl or gold, The treasure… — Brian Holguin Copy Share Image
Not all of E. Nesbit's children's books are fantasies, but even the most realistic somehow seem magical. In her holiday world, nobody… — Michael Dirda Copy Share Image
“Everything I do in its essence is about helplessness. That's the story I want to tell all the time. It's the story… — Joss Whedon Copy Share Image
“Fairy tales. That was all she could remember about fairies, and as she tried desperately to recall the ones she'd heard or… — Emma Bull Copy Share Image
A tale is told of twin boys born to different mothers. One is dark by nature, the other light. One is rich,… — Matthew Woodring Stover Copy Share Image
“Some cultures are pragmatic and prod their members to acquire possessions and power. Some are individualistic and urge their members to seek… — Timothy Keller Copy Share Image
“But Addie knows too well now, knows that these stories are full of foolish humans doing foolish things, warning tales of gods… — V.E. Schwab Copy Share Image
As is so often the case with a legend, every incident has two possible interpretations, the plausible and the one that is… — Bryce Courtenay Copy Share Image
A parent who from his own childhood experience is convinced of the value of fairy tales will have no difficulty in answering… — Bruno Bettelheim Copy Share Image
The people in this house, I felt, and I included myself, were like characters each from a different grim and gruesome fairy… — Lorrie Moore Copy Share Image
“. . . I understand that I was writing (recording) as well as seeking to right (to rectify) the wrong, and now,… — Sandra M. Gilbert Copy Share Image
The thing is about 'Vida,' we're telling a very simple family narrative. There's nothing fancy about it. — Tanya Saracho Copy Share Image
When you're going with a huge dramatic disaster film, try to keep the narrative as simple as possible. — Jeremy Bolt Copy Share Image
I don't want my readers slowed down by long passages of narrative. — Janet Evanovich Copy Share Image
No matter how stark the reality, a human being fits it into a narrative that is palatable. — Joshua Prager Copy Share Image
Every song means something. Every song tells one of our stories, or a story together. — Maddie Marlow Copy Share Image
'The Authority,' by Warren Ellis and Bryan Hitch, really pioneered the widescreen, action-packed style of storytelling. — Jim Lee Copy Share Image
Of all the tall tales, I think my favorite is the one about Eli Whitney and the interchangeable parts. — Jack Handey Copy Share Image
When the genuine myth rises into consciousness, that is always its message. You must change your life. — Ursula K. Le Guin Copy Share Image
I'm a man of the marketplace as well as an artist. I'm a pawnbroker of myth. — Richard Condon Copy Share Image
“If everything went well, there would be no stories to tell. So, let's add another one to the list!” — Helen Jonsen Copy Share Image
We cannot think without language, we cannot process experience without story. — Christina Baldwin Copy Share Image
It's the problem with fairy tales. From far away, they seem so perfect. But up close, they're just as complicated as real… — Soman Chainani Copy Share Image
If you’re too rigid in your thinking you may miss some wonderful opportunities for storytelling. — Vince Gilligan Copy Share Image
Be careful, boy. In some tales, the hero gets eaten by the monster after all . — Julie Kagawa Copy Share Image
