I believe that imagination is stronger than knowledge - myth is more potent than history - dreams are more powerful than facts… — Robert Fulghum Copy Share Image
“Myths may not satisfy the demands of rationality or science, but they contain profound wisdom - provided one believes they do and… — Devdutt Pattanaik Copy Share Image
“myth” in this strict sense is a story that purports to be in some sense “historical” and that encapsulates and reinforces the… — N.T. Wright Copy Share Image
My whole life I've tried to find the thing I can do that other people can't do, and invest in that, and… — David Berman Copy Share Image
“I am a monster. The worst kind of monster. The kind that people have told stories about for thousands of years. The… — Heather Lyons Copy Share Image
I don't write non-fiction because I get bored. Some of my writing is autobiographical, but not the way readers imagine. I use… — Sefi Atta Copy Share Image
I think making a film and making a TV show and using images illustratively and telling the story through images is different… — RaMell Ross Copy Share Image
I trained with the American Theatre of Harlem, and by the grace of God, that was my foundation to understanding the art… — Rob Morgan Copy Share Image
“This book aims to capture, and explore, the outrageousness, inventiveness, and sheer fun that characterize classical mythology. But it is also born… — Helen Morales Copy Share Image
I'm aware of narrating certain experiences as they happen or obliterating those experiences with narrative and then those stories - not the… — Ben Lerner Copy Share Image
Knockemstiff' scratches a specific itch I have for interconnected narratives circling a central location spanning multiple characters and time periods. I love… — Ethel Cain Copy Share Image
“Stories, like people and butterflies and songbirds' eggs and human hearts and dreams, are also fragile things, made up of nothing stronger… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
“Deep down, Story Easton knew what would happen if she attempted to off herself—she would fail It was a matter of probability.… — Elizabeth Leiknes Copy Share Image
“...most people in the ancient world, did not make a sharp distinction between myth and reality. The two were intimately tied together… — Reza Aslan Copy Share Image
As a cultural form, database represents the world as a list of items and it refuses to order this list. In contrast,… — Lev Manovich Copy Share Image
Peter Watts has taken the core myths of the First Contact story and shaken them to pieces. The result is a shocking… — Karl Schroeder Copy Share Image
My dad was ex-military, so I was raised to always know about current events, particularly what was going on with the military… — Harris Faulkner Copy Share Image
It seems like a totally gratuitous myth to tell people a giant rabbit comes round at night leaving candy in a haphazard… — Todd Rundgren Copy Share Image
“When fiction has become reality, life may turn into a fairy tale or a firestorm. Tina, time has come to pull up… — Erik Pevernagie Copy Share Image
I am completely fascinated by the differences and comparisons between real life and fairy tales because we're raised as little girls to… — Taylor Swift Copy Share Image
Real myths are often strange and startlingly unfamiliar, and don't always give up their meanings easily; you have to tease them out,… — Elizabeth Hand Copy Share Image
Justin Lin, the writer and director of the teenage-wasteland drama 'Better Luck Tomorrow,' a shrewdly tense piece of storytelling, recognizes that sometimes… — Elvis Mitchell Copy Share Image
I'm so used to being in a theater where there is always a narrative, but I'm more about the still moment, the… — Ragnar Kjartansson Copy Share Image
I think that it's important for a film that's in 3D that the filmmakers create the movie from a staging and scene… — Christopher Meledandri Copy Share Image
With movies and TV, storytelling, it's a different medium. I really love it, but I'm one part of many, many pieces of… — Juliette Lewis Copy Share Image
Your job as a writer is to find storylines, narrative structures, and characters to show the things that you believe rather than… — Philipp Meyer Copy Share Image
As long as you still have one bridge left, nothing is lost. But from the moment that you cannot even understand the… — Paulo Coelho Copy Share Image
You have to be a ruthless editor of your own prose. Over the years, I've learned that the best way to incorporate… — Sara Paretsky Copy Share Image
I love storytelling, I love being a visual person, and it just made perfect sense to be an underwater photographer and explore… — Brian Skerry Copy Share Image
The unsparing savagery of stories like the Robber Bridegroom is a sharp reminder that fairy tales belong to the childhood of culture… — Maria Tatar Copy Share Image
I don't know if anything I write will endure, but I do try to write it as a narrative that will not… — Jonathan Kozol Copy Share Image
I'm as much a victim of the romantic myth of 'getting away' as anyone else. My head tells me it's myth, but… — Sydney Pollack Copy Share Image
Pilots are useful. You just learn things during a pilot - the piece of casting that just wasn't right or things about… — Kevin Reilly Copy Share Image
The thing that I love about working at 'GMA' the most is the storytelling - there are so many different genres on… — Jesse Palmer Copy Share Image
I wrote a great deal of a novel, 'Winter's Tale,' on the roof of a Brooklyn Heights tenement on Henry Street. I… — Mark Helprin Copy Share Image
There [in The Kite Runner] certainly are, as is always the case with fiction, autobiographical elements woven through the narrative. — Khaled Hosseini Copy Share Image
Many activists don't want to hear about some grand narrative, one that could unify all of our struggles. So the major issue… — Michael Yates Copy Share Image
My role in the government was not to think about narratives and consistency with narratives, but think of the human consequences of… — Cass Sunstein Copy Share Image
Myths have a certain staying power because, really, they are aspirational - not always who we are, but always who we want… — Richard Cohen Copy Share Image
I think from an early age I was aware of how a camera can tell a story, how a movie camera can… — Brian Selznick Copy Share Image
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