“...empathy is the driving force behind the experience of emotions in narratives (Keen, 2006; Mar et al., 2006; Oatley, 2011).” — Mikkel Wallentin Arndis Simonsen Andreas Hojlund Nielsen Copy Share Image
Forecasting is simply not a strength of the species; we are much better with tools and narrative storytelling. — Barry Ritholtz Copy Share Image
We allude to the short prose narrative, requiring from a half hour to one or two hours in its perusal — Edgar Allan Poe Copy Share Image
I'm really trying to focus on the storytelling, more so than ever before I think, partly because it makes for easier pages. — Jim Lee Copy Share Image
Alongside the mythos of the eternal free soul stands the Myth, the religion of the blood. — Alfred Rosenberg Copy Share Image
Ireland is where strange tales begin and happy endings are possible. — Charles Haughey Copy Share Image
“Conflict drives the narrative and creates opportunities for personal growth, change, and transformation.” — Calvin Niles Copy Share Image
There are plenty of myths out there that are either really expensive to do or incredibly difficult or complicated to execute. — Grant Imahara Copy Share Image
“Myth must be kept alive. The people who can keep it alive are the artists of one kind or another. The function… — Joseph Campbell Copy Share Image
What I like is not a particular genre, it's storytelling. There's a lot of great storytelling in jazz, and in folk and… — Lizz Wright Copy Share Image
“Roz is telling a story. That's what they will do, increasingly in their lives: tell stories. Tonight their stories will be about… — Margaret Atwood Copy Share Image
And that's the way of a real tale. Take any one that you're fond of. You may know, or guess, what kind… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“The role of a story was, in the broadest terms, to transpose a single problem into another form. ... It was like… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
Myth and fairy-story must, as all art, reflect and contain in solution elements of moral and religious truth (or error), but not… — J. R. R. Tolkien Copy Share Image
Buildings for me represent opportunities of agency, transformation, and storytelling. They are not just artifacts. There is this big tradition of buildings-as-artifacts… — David Adjaye Copy Share Image
Every kid loves fairy tales, stories of witches and giants and magicians. Then, when you get a little older you can't read… — Stan Lee Copy Share Image
“This is all a tale of an older world and a forgotten countryside. At this moment of time change has come; a… — John Buchan Copy Share Image
“When I say "narrative", I do not mean simply the plot, I mean considerably more. Plots and their shapes--the bare outlines of… — Diana Wynne Jones Copy Share Image
There is a reason for the affected profession of " anarchist sympathies" among Tories and grandees, and of " libertarian principles" by… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
One of the aspects I like about the film is that there is a kind of emotional, psychological discussion during the storytelling,… — Keanu Reeves Copy Share Image
“The term - 'Fairy-Tales' is so ironical in itself, when I sometimes sit to write love stories with a happy ending, it… — Mehek Bassi Copy Share Image
“I am going to tell a story now, and though I've made a life out of writing words, this is the first… — Dexter Palmer Copy Share Image
Machines have given us a new ability to count and make our understanding quantitative. The Web connects news gatherers with audiences in… — Tom Rosenstiel Copy Share Image
In each studio there is a human being dressed in the full regalia of his myth fearing to expore a vulnerable opening,… — Anais Nin Copy Share Image
It is a tale told by an idiot, full of sound and fury; signifying nothing. — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
“There was no energy of a narrative in my family, not even the fervour of an elegy.” — Anne Michaels Copy Share Image
Each generation wants their own form of entertainment and their own form of storytelling. — Nancy Dubuc Copy Share Image
We love a tale of heroes and villains and conflicts requiring a neat resolution. — Barry Ritholtz Copy Share Image
All that I hope to say in books, all that I ever hope to say, is that I love the world. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
If you have distance from the events, then your story can work as an analogy or parable rather than its literal narrative. — Peter Morgan Copy Share Image
“If we were all as wise as we should be, we would have no stories to tell” — Freeman Wills Croft Copy Share Image
Narrative identity takes part in the story's movement, in the dialectic between order and disorder — Paul Ricoeur Copy Share Image
Monsters are a storytelling tool, like domestic realism and close third. — Colson Whitehead Copy Share Image
Myths are wonderful - they really tell the stories that connect all of us and teach us so much. — Jeff Bridges Copy Share Image
Stories are like assholes. Everybody's got one and most of 'em stink. — Lawrence Block Copy Share Image
Literature - Eastern and Western - abounds with stories, myths, legends about the search for youth, for eternal life. — F. Sionil Jose Copy Share Image
“...I like stories very much,” the priest said. “They help me understand myself better.” — Simon Van Booy Copy Share Image
The old days of screenwriting, and myths about screenwriting, are maybe over. It's a literary form, if you can wake up to… — William Monahan Copy Share Image
“We all tell our stories the way we want to. And sometimes those stories have nothing to do with reality.” — Danielle Ganek Copy Share Image
