I love to do fashion. I always put fashion in all of my storytelling because that's what I am, but I'm not… — Patricia Field Copy Share Image
what storyteller is adequate to her story? The story carries us along, bottles on the tide, each with our secret mesage and… — Erica Jong Copy Share Image
The son has always felt like he was a footnote in one of the stories the father tells. The father is an… — Danny DeVito Copy Share Image
The beauty myth moves for men as a mirage; its power lies in its ever-receding nature. When the gap is closed, the… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“The joy of nonfiction is searching for balance between storytelling and reporting, finding a way to be both loquacious and observant.” — Peter Hessler Copy Share Image
“Chaucer's The Canterbury Tales was expected to clock in at anywhere between 100 and 120 chapters. Unfortunately, the dude only managed to… — Jacopo della Quercia Copy Share Image
From as far back as I can remember, I always loved the King Arthur stories, fairy tales, mythology - things like that.… — Lloyd Alexander Copy Share Image
I think that there's a sense that procedurals, because they have more of a formula to the storytelling, it doesn't necessarily rate… — Channing Dungey Copy Share Image
“You may have come to advocacy on your own, it may be part of your job or you may have been asked… — John Capecci and Timothy Cage Copy Share Image
“As the video game designer and writer James Wallis puts it, “Human beings like stories. Our brains have a natural affinity not… — Jonathan Gottschall Copy Share Image
The thing that always interests me from a storytelling point of view is how that moment of trauma, whatever the trauma is,… — Steven Bochco Copy Share Image
“It has generally been assumed that fairy tales were first created for children and are largely the domain of children. But nothing… — Jack Zipes Copy Share Image
“The worst of such stories is that the triumphant romancers can always be put to confusion and crushed by the very details… — Fyodor Dostoyevsky Copy Share Image
Storytelling is more like a skin. You start with the outermost layer, what it's going to look like, then you kind of… — Charlie Jane Anders Copy Share Image
“In older myths, the dark road leads downward into the Underworld, where Persephone is carried off by Hades, much against her will,… — Terri Windling Copy Share Image
“News organizations are coy about admitting that what they present us with each day are minuscule extracts of narratives whose true shape… — Alain de Botton Copy Share Image
Fiction is risky for writers also in that the process of making certain books, of shaping certain narratives, leaves scars and marks… — Chris Abani Copy Share Image
“Storytelling is an escape from the jail of the self, leading to the ultimate adventure--seeing life through the eyes of another.” — Tobias Wolff Copy Share Image
“Fairy tales represent hundreds of years of stories based on thousands of years of stories told by hundreds, thousands, perhaps even millions… — Kate Bernheimer Copy Share Image
“Everybody loves a good story, but good storytelling doesn't come easy to everybody. It's a skill that takes a lifetime to master.… — Austin Kleon Copy Share Image
“Myths are compost. They begin as religions, the most deeply held of beliefs, or as the stories that accrete to religions as… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
“The folly and the glory of the world... the wild, the wise and the wicked... the hero, the madman, the wanderer and… — Brian Holguin Copy Share Image
In high school, I began to dig my way into Ethiopian history, and began to understand myself as a young man formed… — Dinaw Mengestu Copy Share Image
Life's but a walking shadow, a poor player, that struts and frets his hour upon the stage, and then is heard no… — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
More people telling stories leads to more interesting perspectives in this world. I often think we wouldn't get to these political impasses… — Reese Witherspoon Copy Share Image
In The Tale of Despereaux, there is a lot of darkness, a lot of despair. There's also a lot of light, redemption,… — Kate DiCamillo Copy Share Image
I always like things to be as complicated as possible. I don't like an easy ending. I don't like when all the… — Miriam Shor Copy Share Image
If you hear a statistic, you will make up a story to go with it, because our brains are organized on narrative.… — Gloria Steinem Copy Share Image
A spoken story is larger than one unheard, unsaid. In nearly all creation accounts, words or songs are how the world was… — Linda Hogan Copy Share Image
Many words will be written on the wind and the sand, or end up in some obscure digital vault. But the storytelling… — Henning Mankell Copy Share Image
“There are indeed many wonders, and with regard to the stories people tell one another, it may be that such tales go… — Pindar Copy Share Image
Fairytales were maps formed of blood and hair and bones; they were the knots of the sub-conscious unwound. Every word in every… — Alice Hoffman Copy Share Image
A tale, like the universe, they tell us, expands ceaselessly each time you examine it, until there’s finally no telling exactly where… — Chang-Rae Lee Copy Share Image
Most people who seek attention and regard by announcing that they're writing a novel are actually so devoid of narrative talent that… — Paul Fussell Copy Share Image
“Writers are liars, my dear, surely you know that by now? And yet, things need not have happened to be true. Tales… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
As we begin to become aware of the narrative patterns around which we structure our lives, we learn how to take charge,… — Mandy Aftel Copy Share Image
Once a poet calls his myth a myth, he prevents the reader from treating it as a reality; we use the word… — Adam Kirsch Copy Share Image
“There was a terminal narrative. It was a story until it stopped being a story and until then they kept wanting to… — Emily Perkins Copy Share Image
“And then I realize I am the writer. I don't mean because I write. I mean because we all write our own… — Samantha Ellis Copy Share Image
Narrative cinema is just an imitation of life. Why would you prevent yourself and the audience of the same images, of the… — Gaspar Noe Copy Share Image
