Artists should always think of themselves as cosmic instruments for storytelling. — Ted Lange Copy Share Image
“Dominance is not a state of being, but a continuous act of narrative architecture.” — Kangoma Kindembo Copy Share Image
Every time the Tories are in government, our democracy takes a battering. — Clive Lewis Copy Share Image
“First rate magician perform first rate magic effects, second rate magician performs third rate magic effects.” — Amit Kalantri Copy Share Image
“A well-spun tale can transport listeners away from their humdrum lives and return them with an enlarged sense of the world.” — Jonathan Auxier Copy Share Image
History often resembles myth, because they are both ultimately of the same stuff. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The truth about an animal is far more exciting and altogether more beautiful than all the myths woven about it. — Konrad Lorenz Copy Share Image
Eternal love is a myth, but we make our myths, and we love them to death. — Natalie Angier Copy Share Image
“We have looked for myths that include us in great novels, music, the latest comic book, or even some stupid advertising campaign.… — Kate Bornstein Copy Share Image
We tell ourselves stories in order to live. We live entirely by the impression of a narrative line upon disparate images, the… — Joan Didion Copy Share Image
“The startling truth is this: as this narrative unfolded, amidst all the voices breaking free, telling their stories for the first time,… — Jane Allen Petrick Copy Share Image
Whether we think of Disney's blonde beauty and her pumpkin carriage or Marissa Meyer's recent recasting of 'Cinderella' as a cyborg in… — Marie Rutkoski Copy Share Image
“Q: What's the biggest myth about writing? A: That there's any wildness attached to it. Writing tends to be very deliberate." [… — Colm Tóibín Copy Share Image
“All of our lives are a living, breathing story, and each heartbeat means a new page has been turned; chapters don't close,… — Jeff Dixon - Storming the Kingdom Copy Share Image
There's something in psychology called the narrative paradigm, which essentially means that we think of our lives as stories in which we… — Aleksandar Hemon Copy Share Image
“Mindfulness allows us to shift the angle on our story and to remember that we have the capacity to learn and change… — Sharon Salzberg Copy Share Image
I'm obsessed with this idea of storytellers and people who have a narrative, and sometimes sustain a relationship because they're telling a… — Atom Egoyan Copy Share Image
What joins the Americans one to another is not a common ancestry, language or race, but a shared work of the imagination… — Lewis H. Lapham Copy Share Image
“This makes me wonder, of course, about all of Scripture... how many other stories have I twisted to tell my own story?… — Shauna Niequist Copy Share Image
My documentaries have always been very much constructed in the spirit of dominant cinema. From the time I started making non-fiction, I… — Brett Morgen Copy Share Image
“Behind this lies not just impact or drama, but a typically Japanese tendency. The story of Pygmalion, the Greek myth — in… — Izima Kaoru Copy Share Image
Film is such a director's medium; you're really in their hands in terms of the real storytelling. As an actor, you can… — Rachel Weisz Copy Share Image
“Good writers may “tell” about almost anything in fiction except the characters’ feelings. One may tell the reader that the character went… — John Gardner Copy Share Image
How I keep trying to force our story into a fairy tale, but from the beginning, it's been more like a nursery… — Shannon Hale Copy Share Image
