Trying to tell a narrative throughline while also doing something that's physically demanding... it's just challenging, and you don't know if it… — Emma D'Arcy Copy Share Image
“Well, if you are to help me with my work, you had better get used to stories without endings. True stories seldom… — Frances Hardinge Copy Share Image
I definitely read a lot of books on the psychology and mythology behind fairy tales because I think that's really fascinating and… — Meghan Ory Copy Share Image
“A folklore study differs from most writing, in that the tale is told in the voice of the individual telling the story,… — Karen Jones Gowen Copy Share Image
My offbeat choices definitely don't get me too much money because they are made in a very restrained budget. We do it… — Manoj Bajpayee Copy Share Image
Having a place means that you know what a place means...what it means in a storied sense of myth, character and presence… — Gary Snyder Copy Share Image
I really love storytelling, and I love the stories as they reveal themselves. It's an incredibly nourishing process; it's probably the closest… — Alan Ball Copy Share Image
And what's romance? Usually, a nice little tale where you have everything As You Like It, where rain never wets your jacket… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“We shouldn't be here at all, if we'd known more about it before we started. But I suppose it's often that way.… — J.R.R. Tolkien Copy Share Image
“I decided to write a myth." "Have you figured out a topic? A moral conundrum?" "Yes." "What is it?" I heard Jack's… — Brodi Ashton Copy Share Image
Love Isn't Perfect, It Isn't Fairy Tale Or Storybook, And It Doesn't Always Come Easy. Love Is overcoming Obstacles, Facing Challenges, Fighting… — Pacifiersucker Copy Share Image
“The worldview of a people, though normally left unspoken in the daily business of buying and selling and counting shekels, is to… — Thomas Cahill Copy Share Image
“If you just go get one of these little fine arts degrees or writing program degrees, it never forces you to confront… — Dorothy Allison Copy Share Image
“All old stories, my cousin, will bear telling and telling again in different ways. What is required is to keep alive, to… — A.S. Byatt Copy Share Image
“My memories of them had rubbed thin with overuse, worn to frail color transparencies flickering on the walls of my mind: Jamie… — Tana French Copy Share Image
The power of both myth and art is this magical ability to open doors, to make connections — not only between us… — Alan Lee Copy Share Image
I found that while it was interesting to travel around and take the photographs, I would find that I was more interested… — Joshua Marston Copy Share Image
“The difference between real life and a story is that life has significance , while a story must have meaning . The… — Vera Nazarian Copy Share Image
Myth expresses in terms of the world - that is, of the other world or the second world - the understanding that… — Paul Ricoeur Copy Share Image
There is a visual narrative that is implicitly understandable even when you don't understand the words and in a good comic, and… — Francoise Mouly Copy Share Image
My mother's childhood was complex, disjointed, and disturbing. As children, we would gather round and ask her to tell us again and… — Lisa Jewell Copy Share Image
There's something magical about making films. But theater, where it all started for me, makes you better at the craft of storytelling. — Mike Faist Copy Share Image
“All life is bound to a simple truth... that time goes on, that in each person's life begins a tale, a tale… — M.J. Chrisman Copy Share Image
Broken stories can be healed. Diseased stories can be replaced by healthy ones. We are free to change the stories by which… — Daniel Taylor Copy Share Image
A lot of the ancient Norse myths and legends are the basis of a lot of the sci-fi, fantasy films out there.… — Karl Urban Copy Share Image
In crime fiction, I just don't write the parts that aren't a thriller and it's exactly the same in my TV reporting… — Hank Phillippi Ryan Copy Share Image
Some after-the-fact storytelling is inevitable, and, in fact, very good and useful. But then we want always to be able to enrich… — Nicholson Baker Copy Share Image
Almost everyone shuts down when science becomes too technical; you've got to infuse it with entertainment and storytelling to make it effective.… — Greg Graffin Copy Share Image
I've always felt that the traditional novel doesn't give you enough information about the narrator, and I think it's important to know… — W. G. Sebald Copy Share Image
I just feel that God gave me a certain gift, and that was to go out, do storytelling and be an actor.… — Eric Close Copy Share Image
Content, it dreams awake, and spins the fabric of tales. There is really nothing to be done with such imagery except to… — Patricia A. McKillip Copy Share Image
Basketball games - and seasons - make great narratives; they feature distinct acts, heroes and villains, and guaranteed resolutions. — Anthony Doerr Copy Share Image
Pleasing things: finding a large number of tales that one has not read before. Or acquiring the second volume of a tale… — Sei Shonagon Copy Share Image
“Myths have always been archetypal realities, that through history or legend, remind the human being of his origin, his destiny, and the… — Javier Cazañ Copy Share Image
Toni Morrison has a habit, perhaps traceable to the pernicious influence of William Faulkner, of plunging into the narrative before the reader… — John Updike Copy Share Image
“Greater skill and value is found in creating a myth than it is to awkwardly present the truth subjectively, or raw form.… — VD Copy Share Image
I love creating partnerships; I love not having to bear the entire burden of the creative storytelling, and when I have unions… — Steven Spielberg Copy Share Image
I have had issues in the past with the characters and the limitations of the characters and the structure of the narratives… — Viola Davis Copy Share Image
I went to Princeton to major in comparative literature. I never went to film school, but I studied storytelling across mediums -… — Elizabeth Chai Vasarhelyi Copy Share Image
For most of the history of our species we were helpless to understand how nature works. We took every storm, drought, illness… — Ann Druyan Copy Share Image
