Think what you would have been now, if instead of being fed with tales and old wives' fables in childhood, you had… — Charles Lamb Copy Share Image
Only - only that, if you believe the tales, it's in the nature of our people to go to war and to… — Juliet Marillier Copy Share Image
“My American adolescence was filled with tales of woe like this, all of them proof of what my mother said, that we… — Viet Thanh Nguyen Copy Share Image
“The most invidious myth of our civilization is the idea that any form of social contract can substitute for unrelenting moment-to-moment awareness… — Marco Vassi Copy Share Image
I certainly have been writing stories that are hard science fiction, that are very reminiscent of 'Golden Age tales' from the '40s… — Ken Liu Copy Share Image
“Storytelling? God started that. Discovery. Lust. Murder. Revenge. Power. Sin. Redemption. Forgiveness. Miracles. We simply retell the stories in the language of… — Dennis R. Miller Copy Share Image
We're [also] trying to talk to a generation who grew up on the Internet. They're digital natives, and, essentially, they speak through… — Andrew Aydin Copy Share Image
I so wish to work with Sanjay Leela Bhansali because his creativity is of a different level. His vision, his style of… — Ishita Dutta Copy Share Image
“Narrative, in short. is more than literature, it is the way we understand our lives. If literature merely supplied entertainment, then it… — Robert N. Bellah Copy Share Image
A deeply felt novel . . . The Story of Forgetting offers us both solace and illumination. Stefan Merrill Block possesses a… — Sarah Shun-lien Bynum Copy Share Image
Being true to yourself involves showing and sharing emotion. The spirit that motivates most great storytellers is 'I want you to feel… — Peter Guber Copy Share Image
“Humans are a story telling species. Throughout history we have told stories to each other and ourselves as one of the ways… — Nathan Myhrvold Copy Share Image
When I used to watch vaudevillian impressionists, people like Rich Little or Frank Gorshin, I always felt like the voice was the… — Frank Caliendo Copy Share Image
Well, I kind of approach both of them similarly in (that) I always see it as a movie first because that's my… — Michael Landon, Jr Copy Share Image
But most of all I was inspired by the stirring examples of all the other runners. In some pictures they would seem… — Mark Sutcliffe Copy Share Image
I'm not good at narrative; I'm really a gag writer, and that comes from being in the newspaper comic strip world for… — Jeff Kinney Copy Share Image
When the Tories came to power in 2010, the ground-breaking Equality Act had just become law. But the newly appointed Equalities Minister… — Emily Thornberry Copy Share Image
Folk tales are my favourite form of story telling. They not only just adjust the reader according to the world it is… — Shweta Basu Prasad Copy Share Image
People tend to think of fairy tales as 'archetypal.' They are also extremely sensual, something which translates well over the ages. — Kate Bernheimer Copy Share Image
'Pierrot le Fou' is something I keep coming back to. It's so surreal but still really engaging - it proves narratives within… — Shane Carruth Copy Share Image
writers are makers, not just transmitters, of myths. Literature offers not only myths but counter-myths, just as life offers counter-experiences - experiences… — Susan Sontag Copy Share Image
A little bit of one story joins onto an idea from another, and hey presto, . . . not old tales but… — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image
Me and my needs were driving my mother away. Me and my needs retreated to my closet, disappeared into fairy tales. I… — Marya Hornbacher Copy Share Image
The 'punch' of a truly weird tale is simply some violation or transcending of fixed cosmic law - an imaginative escape from… — H. P. Lovecraft Copy Share Image
We live in a world of competing narratives. In the end, we have to decide for ourselves which is right. And having… — Alister E. McGrath Copy Share Image
Neurologists say that our brains are programmed much more for stories than for abstract ideas. Tales with a little drama are remembered… — John P. Kotter Copy Share Image
I have a better internal and intuitive understanding of folklore and myth than science and technology, so in that way fantasy is… — Sarah Zettel Copy Share Image
“When I was a little girl, I believed in fairy tales and one of the dreams I had was someday dancing alongside… — Lisa De Jong Copy Share Image
It's hard, because when you talk about process or your characters ruling your narrative, it sounds like you have no control, but… — Alice Sebold Copy Share Image
Does a man of sense run after every silly tale of hobgoblins or fairies, and canvass particularly the evidence? I never knew… — David Hume Copy Share Image
For the greater part of my professional life I'd spent a lot of time trying to make myself make sense to others,… — Greta Lee Copy Share Image
I suppose the short chapters and differing narrative points of view are quite "cinematic" devices, which came very naturally to me. — Stef Penney Copy Share Image
Shakespeare is so fundamental to the way we see story. A tremendous amount of narratives come from him - more than many… — Rebecca Serle Copy Share Image
It took some time to gather the research and develop it into the storyline, and to finally finish an origin myth poem… — Jean M. Auel Copy Share Image
Many people think fairy tales and retellings of fairy tales are only for children, but I'm not the only writer to take… — Kate Forsyth Copy Share Image
One of the nicest things I ever read about our show was that a critic felt 'Boardwalk Empire' could be the beginning… — Terence Winter Copy Share Image
Our powerful hunger for myth is a hunger for community. The person without a myth is a person without a home...To be… — Rollo May Copy Share Image
Those who do not have power over the story that dominates their lives, power to retell it, to rethink it, deconstruct it,… — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image
These were our bedtime stories. Tales that haunted our parents and made them laugh at the same time. We never understood them… — Edwidge Danticat Copy Share Image
I think TV content has changed a lot and even films, especially after the web platform has come in. Now, there's an… — Ishita Dutta Copy Share Image
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