I'm a project-based photographer; I think in narrative terms, the way a writer thinks of a book, or a filmmaker a film. — Alec Soth Copy Share Image
I don't believe in myths of decline or myths of progress, even as regards the literary scene. — Harold Bloom Copy Share Image
These are the stories that we tell ourselves and only ourselves, and they are better left unshared. — Jim Crace Copy Share Image
Stories have to be told or they die, and when they die, we can't remember who we are or why we're here. — Sue Monk Kidd Copy Share Image
“What we put in and leave out of our stories tells us something about who we are.” — Eddie S. Glaude Jr Copy Share Image
We are storytelling creatures, and as children we acquire language to tell those stories that we have inside us. — Jerome Bruner Copy Share Image
“An intensely gripping narrative...expertly crafted and totally addictive...a must read!” — Maggie Reese Copy Share Image
“Maybe when we can tell the stories, however bad they are, we don't belong to them anymore. They become ours.” — Ava Dellaira Copy Share Image
There are no events but thoughts and the heart's hard turning, the heart's slow learning where to love and whom. The rest… — Annie Dillard Copy Share Image
Increasingly unable to create for itself a relevant body of myth, the modern imagination will ransack the treasure house of the classic. — George Steiner Copy Share Image
“There's always someone who secretly believes in myths and legends; or at least parts of them. Those are the people who will… — Aprilynne Pike Copy Share Image
I always wanted to make the matches in some way different unique and interesting. I never wanted to have that basic match.… — Gail Kim Copy Share Image
The great enemy of the truth is very often not the lie, deliberate, contrived and dishonest, but the myth, persistent, persuasive and… — John F. Kennedy Copy Share Image
We live immersed in narrative, recounting and reassessing the meaning of our past actions, anticipating the outcome of our future projects, situating… — Peter Brooks Copy Share Image
The tremendous challenge of narrative journalism about subjects that are underreported is, how do you make people care about something they think… — Sarah Stillman Copy Share Image
“Stories trace their roots to impassioned human interactions with the world. I always sense a storyline as an emotional yearning embedded in… — Kilroy J. Oldster Copy Share Image
Storytelling is the oldest form of entertainment there is. From campfires and pictograms - the Lascaux cave paintings may be as much… — Maria Konnikova 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
“There are many narratives from documented histories that are based on real events, of course, but they were fantastically embellished by the… — Leah Reise Copy Share Image
“tale is thus both instructive and cautionary, filled with lessons about innovation, character, leadership, and values. Shakespeare’s Henry V—the story of a… — Walter Isaacson Copy Share Image
“Man seeks to escape himself in myth, and does so by any means at his disposal… unnable to withdraw into himself, he… — Jean Cocteau Copy Share Image
“This got me thinking about endings and how the final moments of a story can color our entire perception of a narrative.… — Crystal Cestari Copy Share Image
If you're writing a book where you want to make a positive truth claim, then you should absolutely call it nonfiction or… — Elif Batuman Copy Share Image
“Jesus and institutional religion are on a collision course, and those who go with Jesus will find more adventure, freedom, and religion-bursting… — Ronnie McBrayer Copy Share Image
“Effective content marketing is about mastering the art of storytelling. Facts tell, but stories sell.” — Bryan Eisenberg Copy Share Image
Narrative is radical, creating us at the very moment it is being created. — Toni Morrison Copy Share Image
Even if someone doesn't like it, or just likes it for me, storytelling has been the one true love story of my… — Kelly Marie Tran Copy Share Image
“According to the myth, Prometheus steal fire to free us; Iago steals us as fresh fodder for the fire.” — Harold Bloom Copy Share Image
The sea always offers up incredible stories of survivors' fortitude. Myths of a lot of countries have variations on that. — Colin Farrell Copy Share Image
Just because this isnt a fairy tale dosnt mean we cant live happily ever after — Ana Copy Share Image
This is the sorcery of literature. We are healed by our stories. — Terry Tempest Williams Copy Share Image
The ultimate for me would be to do a feature that didn't require any narrative structure. — Johnny Depp Copy Share Image
“A disproportionate number of stories are love stories – and what is homosexuality but a special narrative of love?” — Christopher Bram Copy Share Image
“Myths are not to be despised, but reading them literally is not to be recommended.” — Peter Burke Copy Share Image
It turns up the heat under a narrative when you limit the characters in their movements or their freedoms. — Emma Donoghue Copy Share Image
In narrative films, you set up reality, so you can limit the variables. You don't have that luxury with docs. — Adrian Grenier Copy Share Image
“His story remains behind, echoing inside me, a tale of impossible choices.” — Cody McFadyen Copy Share Image
I have suggested that behind almost all myth lies the mono-plot of the game of hide-and-seek. — Alan Watts Copy Share Image
Children are natural mythologists: they beg to be told tales, and love not only to invent but to enact falsehoods. — George Santayana Copy Share Image
Most of my films have been documentaries, but I'm also very interested in narrative filmmaking. — Barbara Kopple Copy Share Image
