“To paraphrase Muggeridge: Everything is a parable that God is speaking to us, the art of life is to get the message.” — Chester Elijiah Branch Copy Share Image
Life is not a fairly tale and it worse when people expect so much from you. — Dave Mahamooi Copy Share Image
“While food makes us live, stories are what make our lives worth living.” — Richard Kearney Copy Share Image
“Stories often project the best that humanity has to offer. If only we could live up to our stories.” — Wayne Gerard Trotman Copy Share Image
My first love is definitely performing, but I just love storytelling, and that's another aspect of it. — Rhea Seehorn Copy Share Image
It was all I had, all I've ever had, the only currency, the only proof that I was alive. Memory. — Abraham Verghese Copy Share Image
“I think you’re a fairy tale. I think you’re magical, and brave, and exquisite. And I hope you'll let me be in… — Laini Taylor Copy Share Image
Visual storytelling of one kind or another has been around since cavemen were drawing on the walls. — Frank Darabont Copy Share Image
I don't think I ever watched a movie without being totally immersed in the story. But at the same time, I had… — Raoul Peck Copy Share Image
The short story is a very natural mode of storytelling; most stories can be told quickly. I always think of them as… — Kevin Barry Copy Share Image
In documentary films, being able to be a storytelling and embrace film as an art form - while being very clearly connected… — James Redford Copy Share Image
The power of storytelling - of elevating the voices and examples of incredible leaders who have overcome odd after odd - remains… — Caroline Ghosn Copy Share Image
Children tell themselves stories, engage in self-delusion and fantasy, but those narratives are more evolving than calcified - and with that malleability… — Laura van den Berg Copy Share Image
Writers have it easy. If you write a bestseller or have your book made into a movie, you'll never have to work… — Sara Sheridan Copy Share Image
Things we are accustomed to regard as myth or fairy story are very much present in people's lives. Nice people behave like… — Diana Wynne Jones Copy Share Image
True stories, autobiographical stories, like some novels, begin long ago, before the acts in the account, before the birth of some of… — Harold Brodkey Copy Share Image
The Tale Of Love On my fading day, I may Sneak in, to throw a tale Of, what words cannot touch, And… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
You know, I didn't write my books for critics and scholars. I wrote them for students and artists. When I hear how… — Joseph Campbell Copy Share Image
Digging up new information and speculating on it isn't your primary purpose when you're writing a biography intended for young readers, unless… — Russell Freedman Copy Share Image
“Iff replied that the Plentimaw Fishes were what he called 'hunger artists' — 'Because when they are hungry they swallow stories through… — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image
“Fantasy elevates ordinary and eternal problems of young people into stories via the language of myth. It turns “No one really knows… — Erin Bow Copy Share Image
“Unlike uplifting light fiction, narrative nonfiction’s trammeled territory provides no safe room where an unnerved writer can banish their unpleasant memories. Narrative… — Kilroy J. Oldster Copy Share Image
“Which story do you want to hear my child?"he picked him up and made him sit on his lap. "Tell us the… — Chitralekha Paul Copy Share Image
“Sometimes, reading to my children at night, the perverse thought would come to me that in rehashing for them the same fairy… — Nicole Krauss Copy Share Image
Actually everybody has a story, a fairy tale in their heart that they adhere to. — Phoebe Stone Copy Share Image
But because we live in an age of science, we have a preoccupation with corroborating our myths. — Michael Shermer Copy Share Image
“The Rape of Europa. Both the myth and the picture only prove the power of beauty to turn anyone into a beast.” — Lara Biyuts Copy Share Image
Two things make a story. The net and the air that falls through the net. — Pablo Neruda Copy Share Image
“ My Cuddle Time Bible Story Book Sleeping with Jesus Baby Bibles: Tall Tales for Tiny tots Everybody Poops (Except God)” — Dave Eggers Copy Share Image
I like the fact that kids are willing to be imaginative and go along with me when I'm telling strange tales. — Margaret Haddix Copy Share Image
Fundamentally there is a narrative around where innovation can come out from. — Shiva Ayyadurai Copy Share Image
“Many a year I told her tales. And then the time came for me to watch. And watch I have.” — Gina Marinello-Sweeney Copy Share Image
For the spell is older than experience. For the tale is older than the record. — Marina Tsvetaeva Copy Share Image
We are moving away from myths and toward fantasy role-playing games, away from movies and toward videogames. — Douglas Rushkoff Copy Share Image
Having spent a lot of time on sets, I was really interested in the overall storytelling aspect of shows and projects. — Tom Verica Copy Share Image
In its 400 years of existence, storytellers never evolved the book as a storytelling device. — Joe Sabia Copy Share Image
As a story teller I have used characters, epic tales, poetry and rasa in my performances. — Shobana Copy Share Image
“The surface world may be as much a myth to the subterraneans as the underworld is to us.” — Priscilla Vogelbacher Copy Share Image
