I am the daughter of Mr. Neo-realism: I should gravitate towards narrative simply told, character, the truth. And I do love those… — Isabella Rossellini Copy Share Image
“You must never tell people their own stories. They have no interest in them, or they think they can tell them better… — Karen Lord Copy Share Image
“She married a man who soon left her; that man became a myth; and then that myth returned home and proved to… — Nelson Mandela Copy Share Image
“The inner work that must be done will not always be easy and the road will not always be smooth, but it… — Daniel Mangena Copy Share Image
Some of the evil of my tale may have been inherent in our circumstances. For years we lived anyhow with one another… — T. E. Lawrence Copy Share Image
I was feeling really restless in my hard-rock band. I wanted to learn more about storytelling in music, and that's what country… — Lindsey Haun Copy Share Image
I remember that - you know, I didn't receive a formal education. I was educated in the Montevideo cafe, in the cafes… — Eduardo Galeano Copy Share Image
“Like a tree or a river, a story can have many branches or tributaries—but its power comes from the root, the origin… — Lawrence Nault Copy Share Image
We like layers of character and personality in our storytelling. We like very distinctive, unique personalities interacting with each other. And I… — Joe Russo Copy Share Image
I love storytelling, you know, beyond anything. I love a great story beyond a great performance. Storytelling is about what we all… — Jake Gyllenhaal Copy Share Image
“A short story is not a portrayal of life. When life becomes disconsolate and the fear for the unknown seeps through the… — Anu Lal Copy Share Image
Dream is the personalized myth, myth the depersonalized dream; both myth and dream are symbolic in the same general way of the… — Joseph Campbell Copy Share Image
I'm an actor, so I'm interested in the pursuit of storytelling and character and challenging myself and expanding my craft. That's not… — Tatiana Maslany Copy Share Image
My idea of storytelling is - I wouldn't say it's religious but I would say it's spiritual. You know, the chemist Friedrich… — David Milch Copy Share Image
Part of my problem is that I cannot dispel the myths that have somehow accumulated over the years. Somebody writes something, it's… — Stanley Kubrick Copy Share Image
“There are many narratives from documented histories that are based on real events, of course, but they were fantastically embellished by the… — Leah Reise Copy Share Image
A lot of fairy tales are thinly disguised hostility raps against parents. Kids know that they can't make it on their own,… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
I think that Shakespeare himself raided fairy tales and chronicle writers, and he always looked to people who worked in the mythic… — Kenneth Branagh Copy Share Image
Artistic symbols and myths speak out of the primordial, preconscious realm of the mind which is powerful and chaotic. Both symbol and… — Rollo May Copy Share Image
I've always been a super-fan of television storytelling. It took me a while to figure that out in a career capacity, but… — Julie Plec Copy Share Image
“While adoration periodically crept into the relationships between slaves and overseers, their most unsavory interactions provided the inexplicable narrative for a dark… — Trevor P. Wardlaw Copy Share Image
I don't know if it's good or bad, but when I first started writing I imitated the narrative thrust of a movie.… — Kevin Wilson Copy Share Image
I think stories do have an ending. I think they need to have an ending eventually because that is a story: a… — Melissa Rosenberg Copy Share Image
“The places and people in the following stories have been represented accurately to the best of my ability; yet my writing is… — Eric Sloane Copy Share Image
I've always been a big believer that you can use the elements of storytelling to bring the reader along and to hopefully… — David Grann Copy Share Image
I was always interested in myths growing up. So, first I got into some Roman myths, then I was interested in Norse,… — Grant Morrison Copy Share Image
“Storytelling--that's not the future. The future, I'm afraid, is flashes and impulses. It's mode up of moments and fragments, and stories won't… — Dexter Palmer Copy Share Image
I don't teach narrative theory by itself anymore, but I kind of use it when critiquing student manuscripts. So, it works its… — Rob Roberge Copy Share Image
Good writing is about finding and exploiting anecdotes that resonate with the reader. In storytelling, it's OK if you only make one… — Ben Clymer Copy Share Image
Every fairy tale offers the potential to surpass present limits, so in a sense the fairy tale offers you freedoms that reality… — Azar Nafisi Copy Share Image
I read a lot of 'The Canterbury Tales' on my phone last year, because I was cycling between three different editions, and… — Rick Moody Copy Share Image
My passion is writing comics and storytelling, and I'm constantly working to improve. I hit my deadlines, I know how to work… — Hope Larson Copy Share Image
“In the course of time, Michael Strogoff reached a high station in the Empire. But it is not the history of his… — Jules Verne Copy Share Image
I don't see any difference in the craft of acting, in film or television. It's absolutely the same. It's different storytelling, playing… — David Duchovny Copy Share Image
The Tories have built a system defined by insecurity - from wages to job contracts to housing to the welfare state. If… — Owen Jones Copy Share Image
We get excited by ideas, and we're more excited by being surprised by ideas than we are in dictating the course of… — Joe Russo Copy Share Image
We are a million miles from the Tories. While we promote international co-operation and human rights abroad, they pull up the drawbridge. — Ed Davey Copy Share Image
Eminem. My son was listening to that and I was like, “What is that junk?” Then I started listening and I thought,… — Larry Bird Copy Share Image
I joke that I learned the essentials of storytelling from Hanna-Barbera, but I pretty much did. That kind of television is what… — Kurt Sutter Copy Share Image
The job of a storyteller is to speak the truth. But what we feel most deeply can’t be spoken in words alone.… — Alan Garner Copy Share Image
