“In the broad light of day, I could not give his tale nearly so much credence as I had granted it when… — Lyndsay Faye Copy Share Image
My mom used to call me 'Oprah' because I was always in a corner crying with somebody. I've always been attracted to… — Elaine Welteroth Copy Share Image
“Through Action, a Man becomes a Hero. Through Death, a Hero becomes a Legend. Through Time, a Legend becomes a Myth. Through… — uknown Copy Share Image
Expedition EVEREST adds a new dimension to our storytelling in Disney's Animal Kingdom. It's a thrilling adventure themed to the folklore of… — Joe Rohde Copy Share Image
If you find yourself caring about old stories and regret the ways in which they slip out of reach of young audiences,… — Michael Rosen Copy Share Image
Compared to other forms of drama, performance art is often thought of as inaccessible and overly artsy. I prefer to think of… — Amy Hill Copy Share Image
“The social function of narrative is not limited to 'primitive' people sitting around the fire telling each other where Fire came from… — Ursula K. Le Guin Copy Share Image
“I believe if each of us was to think hard enough we could recall at least one extraordinary tale, one we heard… — J. W. Lord Copy Share Image
That same night, I wrote my first short story. It took me thirty minutes. It was a dark little tale about a… — Khaled Hosseini Copy Share Image
“Therese was propped up on one elbow. The milk was so hot, she could barely let her lip touch it at first.… — Patricia Highsmith Copy Share Image
What I think networks do so well are big, fun, accessible, invite everybody into the tent kinds of storytelling, akin to an… — Eric Kripke Copy Share Image
“This book, then, is a product of the last fifteen years, as well as a product of the fifteen years that preceded… — Michael E. Gerber Copy Share Image
“Like night dreams, stores often use symbolic language, therefore bypassing the ego and persona, and traveling straight to the spirit and soul… — Clarissa Pinkola Estes Copy Share Image
The storyteller is deep inside everyone of us. The story-maker is always with us. Let us suppose our world is attacked by… — Doris Lessing Copy Share Image
It is easy to imagine fantasy as physical and myth as real. We do it almost every moment. We do this as… — Walker Evans Copy Share Image
As I see it, a successful story of any kind should be almost like hypnosis: You fascinate the reader with your first… — Alan Moore Copy Share Image
Tales of power and ambition and intrigue and betrayal and desire - when you're telling those in a big way, you automatically… — Beau Willimon Copy Share Image
I always wanted to tell the story of how Pearl Jam is the story of lightning striking twice. As well as being… — Cameron Crowe Copy Share Image
“By beginning a diary, I was already conceding that life would be more bearable if I looked at it as an adventure… — Anaïs Nin Copy Share Image
I practiced on the greatest model of storytelling we've got, which is "The Iliad" and "The Odyssey." I told those stories many,… — Philip Pullman Copy Share Image
I'm used to writing fairy tales that can be somewhat dark, and the truth is that in fairy tales, romances are always… — Theodora Goss Copy Share Image
“My story - my own personal story - ended before my writing began. Storytelling has only ever been a way of filling… — Diane Setterfield Copy Share Image
The most important thing is, how can I move forward towards something that I can't articulate, that is new in storytelling with… — Martin Scorsese Copy Share Image
I always take a story that's kind of out there, like an urban myth. I take some possibility that people imagine, that… — Cecelia Ahern Copy Share Image
When I read a script, the important thing is that I can connect in some way with that character and have some… — Joel Grey Copy Share Image
I've always preferred comics that really rely on visual storytelling. It's what makes comics special. Otherwise, you're better off reading a novel. — Cliff Chiang Copy Share Image
If you have a good story idea, don't assume it must form a prose narrative. It may work better as a play,… — Hilary Mantel Copy Share Image
“The prime motive was the desire of a tale-teller to try his hand at a really long story that would hold the… — J.R.R. Tolkien Copy Share Image
The key is to work with people who are passionate about storytelling and who have a similar sensibility of the type and… — Patrick Lussier Copy Share Image
Fairy tales had been her first experience of the magical universe, and more than once she had wondered why people ended up… — Paulo Coelho Copy Share Image
The Tories are trying to lock the country into the old, dirty technologies that harm our communities and the people who are… — Barry Gardiner Copy Share Image
Storytelling has always been at the heart of being human because it serves some of our most basic needs: passing along our… — Parker J. Palmer Copy Share Image
I think there is much more storytelling in stand-up now. Less emphasis on the joke. Jokes are still important, but it feels… — Doug Benson Copy Share Image
I knew how to write like an academic, so I knew how to write academic papers and essays and things. But the… — Tara Westover Copy Share Image
We have in our head something called story grammar. We see the world as a series of episodes rather than logical propositions...… — Daniel H. Pink Copy Share Image
Stories took twists and turns down fairy-tale paths or down very human everyday ones. You think you’re at the end of the… — Deb Caletti Copy Share Image
“Liberation is always in part a storytelling process: breaking stories, breaking silences, making new stories. A free person tells her own story.… — Rebecca Solnit Copy Share Image
“A myth is an unverifiable and typically fantastic story that is nonethless felt to be true and that deal with a theme… — John Bierhorst Copy Share Image
So we make stories of our own, in fevered and envious imitation of our Maker, hoping that we'll tell, by chance, what… — Clive Barker Copy Share Image
“All stories in which children have adventures and successes which are possible, in the sense that they do not break the laws… — Joe Rigney Copy Share Image
