I wondered if the person who really loves you is the person who knows all your stories, the person who WANTS to… — Gabrielle Zevin Copy Share Image
Chord progression is progression of emotions; storytelling - taking one person from one mood to the next. We are doing the same… — Richie Hawtin Copy Share Image
All stories must end so, with the next tale winking out of the corners of the last pages, promising more, promising moonlight… — Catherynne M. Valente Copy Share Image
Aaron Dessner is an expert at letting the narrative carry the story. He's reminding me constantly of the importance of space and… — Gracie Abrams Copy Share Image
There is no such thing as a true tale. Truth has many faces and the truth is like to the old road… — Marion Zimmer Bradley Copy Share Image
I never start with the story first, which is maybe obvious, because the narrative line of my films is really not that… — Jim Jarmusch Copy Share Image
The future of narrative? Built in, part of the human template. Not going away. The future of the codex book, with pages… — Margaret Atwood Copy Share Image
Wyatt Earp and the Holy Grail: The Tale of the Three Gates is a look at humankind's relationship to the elements which… — Evan Jacobs Copy Share Image
“And if I'm guilty of having gratuitous sex, then I'm also guilty of having gratuitous violence, and gratuitous feasting, and gratuitous description… — George R. R. Martin Copy Share Image
I just thought someone has to figure out how to break through that barrier and create a narrative for a black super… — Kerry James Marshall Copy Share Image
“What, you thought that one story was somehow more real than all the others, just because it’s the one that has the… — Seanan McGuire Copy Share Image
“Mythology can be defined as the sacred history of humankind. This is different from what we call "history." Mythical stories, when you… — Gerald Hausman Copy Share Image
“This consideration takes us very close to what it is that makes Greek tragedy “tragic.” A play about an unambiguously heroic young… — Daniel Mendelsohn Copy Share Image
Nothing ever begins. There is no first moment; no single word or place from which this or any story springs. The threads… — Clive Barker Copy Share Image
“One finds the same basic mythological themes in all the religions of the world, from the most primitive to the most sophisticated,… — Joseph Campbell Copy Share Image
“It made a romantic tale. The young rouge, cheating death, returning to his grieving lover. But in reality? Ashyn had always known… — Kelly Armstrong Copy Share Image
What I really like doing is storytelling, finding the body language that is necessary for the story. And when I'm doing it… — Patricia Birch Copy Share Image
“Because you’re like a story that hasn’t happened yet. Because I want to see what you will do. I want to be… — Holly Black Copy Share Image
I always say that, if you have great actors and great storytelling and great monsters, and you mix them together, nine times… — Gregory Nicotero Copy Share Image
A society that's addicted to narratives with beginnings, middles, and endings will eventually yearn to end. We just want it to end. — Douglas Rushkoff Copy Share Image
“Believe it or not, stories don’t function in terms of beginnings, middles and ends, they simply have beginnings, middles, and ends.” — FILM CRIT HULK Copy Share Image
The moment kids start to lie is the moment storytelling begins. They are talking about things they didn't see. It's amazing. It's… — Kim Young-ha Copy Share Image
The show is not a history lesson or intellectual exploration. It is entertainment based on tension, irony and storytelling that is closely… — Matthew Weiner Copy Share Image
There is a narrative to every life, and I believe in the classic mode of storytelling that goes back to Homer and… — Oliver Stone Copy Share Image
Perhaps we are born knowing the tales of our grandmothers and all their ancestral kin continually run in our blood repeating them… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
If you live with the myths in your mind, you will find yourself always in mythological situations. They cover everything that can… — Joseph Campbell Copy Share Image
I write about people in small towns; I don't write about people living in big cities. My kind of storytelling depends upon… — Lee Smith Copy Share Image
I'd have been a filmmaker or a cartoonist or something else which extended from the visual arts into the making of narratives… — Jonathan Lethem Copy Share Image
“T[he rules of writing] require that the episodes in a tale shall be necessary parts of the tale, and shall help to… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
“What do you do when your head - your imagination is filled with tales to last a hundred lifetimes? You focus on… — Storm Princeholm Copy Share Image
For me, storytelling is all about how we learn about each other. I'm so curious about people, what makes them tick, why… — Thomas Sadoski Copy Share Image
I have always thought that these two ways of talking, one is the fantastic, the fable, the fairy tale, and the other… — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image
If we can find our storytelling in more complimentary ways with the technology, I think it's just going to get better and… — David Droga Copy Share Image
Everything and everybody is sooner or later identified, defined, and put in perspective. The truth as always is simultaneously better and worse… — William Saroyan Copy Share Image
Novelists have to be adept at controlling the flow of information, and, most crucially, they have to be in charge of the… — Ian Mcewan Copy Share Image
The Tories claim that they have changed. Their stance on foxhunting makes it absolutely clear that they haven't. They know the public… — Hilary Benn Copy Share Image
“story was being broadcast over the British radio, and those with hidden transistors were finally learning the tale in tantalizingly vague bits… — Tilar J. Mazzeo Copy Share Image
“This was not a fairy tale. This was not the movies. This was life. It hurt more. It was excruciating. It was… — Francesca Lia Block Copy Share Image
I don't assume, because I can write screenplays, that I know how to write a novel. It's a very different world. There's… — Melissa Rosenberg Copy Share Image
When I pick up the guitar, it's a melody, and that's what drives the lyrics. It's bits and pieces of truth, but… — Ray LaMontagne Copy Share Image
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