“The lie felt good because I had taken control of the narrative around me. The” — Percival Everett Copy Share Image
“In this time of 'information overload', people do not need more information. They want a story they can relate to.” — Maarten Schäfer Copy Share Image
With a tale, forsooth, he cometh unto you; with a tale which holdeth children from play, and old men from the chimney… — Philip Sidney Copy Share Image
My time online has shown me that the viewers will respond most to authentic storytelling. — Eugene Lee Yang Copy Share Image
I love writing two narratives! I think concurrent storylines are my favorite way to write a book. — Taylor Jenkins Reid Copy Share Image
Obsessed by a fairy tale, we spend our lives searching for a magic door and a lost kingdom of peace. — Eugene O'Neill Copy Share Image
If I'm honest I have to tell you I still read fairy-tales and I like them best of all. — Audrey Hepburn Copy Share Image
Role-playing games are just an organic improvised space for storytelling. — Matthew Mercer Copy Share Image
'Lucha Underground' is like a combination of Lucha Libre, American Pro Wrestling, and gridy action films. It's got a lot of things… — John Morrison Copy Share Image
I get some flak for and some resistance from colleagues for because I'm interested in storytelling. I mean what I like about… — Stephen Sondheim Copy Share Image
“…After all, it isn't really difficult to write books. Especially if you either write a rotten story in good English or a… — Dorothy L. Sayers Copy Share Image
“What the Boy chiefly dabbled in was natural history and fairy tales, and he just took them as they came, in a… — Kenneth Grahame Copy Share Image
Why will people persist in reading strange meanings into the simplest of story? Is it not enough that a writer can entertain… — Margaret Mitchell Copy Share Image
“A noble quest, Kirsch thought, despite seeing it as an empty exercise—a meaningless search for random points of correspondence among a hodgepodge… — Dan Brown Copy Share Image
At DePauw, I was teaching writing and fiction. The things I wanted to teach, more than anything else, were form and theory… — Nic Pizzolatto Copy Share Image
There must be possible a fiction which, leaving sociology and case histories to the scientists, can arrive at the truth about the… — Ralph Ellison Copy Share Image
“Like Wide Sargasso Sea and Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead, fanfiction asserts the rights of storytellers to take possession of characters and… — Anne Jamison Copy Share Image
Fairy tales and mythology have always been an exaggerated distillation of the real world. Think of them as blueprints for how to… — Charles de Lint Copy Share Image
“[Veda:] Twenty years of thinking that vampires and witches and all things supernatural were nothing but a bedtime story: a myth, thought… — Jessica Lave Copy Share Image
“ When you look out across the fields And you both see the same star Pitching its tent on the point of… — Eiléan Ní Chuilleanáin Copy Share Image
As a child of the 1970s, I couldn't hold a narrative in my head; I was lucky if I could hold a… — Chuck Palahniuk Copy Share Image
“Responding to myth often means wearing blinkers. Myth is a complex game of production and reception that involves selecting some parts of… — Helen Morales Copy Share Image
“Stories continue in all directions to include even the retelling of the stories themselves, as legend is informed by interpretation, and interpretation… — Garth Stein Copy Share Image
“It's in The Lord of the Rings, I think, where one of the characters says that "way leads on to way"; that… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
“We pay attention to what works with our narrative. We tend to dismiss that which does not.” — Harlan Coben Copy Share Image
I think people should read fairy tales, because we're hungry for a mythology that will speak to our fears. — Sandra Cisneros Copy Share Image
I mean, television has really changed a lot, and changed the way movie people think about working in the storytelling business. — Anna Boden Copy Share Image
“Children played at those stories; they dreamed about them. They took them to heart and acted as if to live inside them.” — Gregory Maguire Copy Share Image
I have that thing in my stomach where I just need to keep striving for things. In my mind, I want the… — January Jones Copy Share Image
We are all at the center of our own narrative, but it's a narrative that changes every time we retell it. — Ruth Ware Copy Share Image
We read the weird tales in newspapers to crowd out the even weirder stuff inside us. — Alain de Botton Copy Share Image
All I need is a sheet of paper and something to write with, and then I can turn the world upside down. — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
That's what film can do in a way that TV and other long-form storytelling can't. It gives you this very immersive moment. — J. C. Chandor Copy Share Image
Shakespeare is repeated around the world in different languages, just because it's good storytelling. — Cary Fukunaga Copy Share Image
“Sometimes it is necessary to come up with a myth that people can blame, rather than the cold hand of unfeeling fate.” — Matthew Mather Copy Share Image
For my teachers, unfortunately, certain things were, as they are for you, only tales of power — Carlos Castaneda Copy Share Image
The best films of any kind, narrative or documentary, provoke questions. — Edward Norton Copy Share Image
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