I think almost everybody enjoyed fairy tales when they were young, tales of witches and ogres and monsters and dragons and so… — Stan Lee Copy Share Image
The most compelling narrative, expressed in sentences with which I have no chemical reaction, or an adverse one, leaves me cold. — Jhumpa Lahiri Copy Share Image
Horror is great storytelling with scary elements on top of it, but if you don't have great storytelling, you can have all… — Jason Blum Copy Share Image
Life is like a book.each day is a new page.may your book be your bestseller with adventures to tell,lessons to learn and… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I do develop characters for songs, and I think of everything as storytelling, in a way. But I don't plan out what… — Julia Holter Copy Share Image
If I really believe that visual representation and narrative are ways to convey important, complex ideas, and if the world is gravitating… — Daniel H. Pink Copy Share Image
It is what life tales are, questions without answers but taking part in being a tale of your own life directs you… — Meekness Tapera Copy Share Image
Next time I go to a movie and see a picture of a little ordinary girl become a great star… I’ll believe… — Jackie Robinson Copy Share Image
“tale is thus both instructive and cautionary, filled with lessons about innovation, character, leadership, and values. Shakespeare’s Henry V—the story of a… — Walter Isaacson Copy Share Image
“Man seeks to escape himself in myth, and does so by any means at his disposal… unnable to withdraw into himself, he… — Jean Cocteau Copy Share Image
It wasn't long after I began writing Star Wars that I realized the story was more than a single film could hold.… — George Lucas Copy Share Image
Storytelling is the oldest form of entertainment there is. From campfires and pictograms - the Lascaux cave paintings may be as much… — Maria Konnikova Copy Share Image
“Fantasy elevates ordinary and eternal problems of young people into stories via the language of myth. It turns “No one really knows… — Erin Bow Copy Share Image
“Iff replied that the Plentimaw Fishes were what he called 'hunger artists' — 'Because when they are hungry they swallow stories through… — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image
Digging up new information and speculating on it isn't your primary purpose when you're writing a biography intended for young readers, unless… — Russell Freedman Copy Share Image
If you're writing a book where you want to make a positive truth claim, then you should absolutely call it nonfiction or… — Elif Batuman Copy Share Image
I'm a super specific songwriter. I always have been. I think the most impactful songs are specific. Broad storytelling just isn't fun… — Olivia Rodrigo Copy Share Image
Wrestling ultimately comes down to what happens when the bell rings, and it comes down to athleticism, storytelling, and characters - and… — John Morrison Copy Share Image
“What manner of people they were only books and other people could tell... and the tale was a long and gory one… — Robert Edison Fulton Jr Copy Share Image
Myths are the prototype for all stories. When we write a story on our own it can't help but link up with… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
In a general sense, to convert any short story, novel, play, or opera into a movie, you have to re-rig it. Even… — Alexander Payne Copy Share Image
“Reality exists only through experience, and it must be personal experience. However, once related, even personal experience becomes a narrative.” — Gao Xingjian Copy Share Image
Politics is a brutal business and since 2010 the Tories have been engaged in hand-to-hand combat with the opposition, trying primarily to… — Cathy Newman Copy Share Image
“Rage Against the Dying Light is my fairy tale, even though it is based on a true story. For everyone knows that… — Jan Surasky Copy Share Image
I love the idea that people are listening to "Tales" during all types of activities. Knitting in their favorite chair, rock climbing,… — Glenn McQuaid Copy Share Image
It is quite surreal having a film made about your life. The whole process of turning real life into drama is interesting… — Heather Brooke Copy Share Image
“I realize that for all my penchant in believing that there's more to the world than what we can see, that folk… — Charles de Lint Copy Share Image
'How to Train Your Dragon,' the first one, was a film I'd seen prior to being approached for the sequel. I don't… — Kit Harington Copy Share Image
The evil of storytelling is you're trying to make the audience complicit in murder - 'Kill the guy! Jump him!' And then… — Bruno Heller Copy Share Image
The more one knows fairy tales the less fantastical they appear; they can be vehicles of the grimmest realism, expressing hope against… — Marina Warner Copy Share Image
“All narrative begins for me as listening. When I read, I listen. When I write, I listen—for silence, inflection, rhythm, rest.” — Toni Morrison Copy Share Image
“I didn’t think that fairy tale was the right term. It all seemed like a nightmare with a few blissful chapters inserted… — Keary Taylor Copy Share Image
When you're telling taut, tight storytelling that has any kind of built-in plot twist elements, you tend to want to stack everything… — Julie Plec Copy Share Image
Writing is storytelling and all of us are authors, not just of words but of reality. You are the author of your… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The story drove the book. That had a very seminal effect on the way I saw writing and storytelling. If you can… — Dick Wolf Copy Share Image
My stories are full of facts; they have a beginning and an end. For that reason, they will never... occupy a place… — Italo Calvino Copy Share Image
I'm interested in everything. I don't see why Borges can't work along with Neil Gaiman, or Stephen King can't be mixed with… — Carlos Ruiz Zafon Copy Share Image
“Authors are the curators of experience. They filter the world's noise, and out of that noise they make the purest signal they… — Peter Mendelsund Copy Share Image
I wanted wherever possible to lean into the comic form and do things in the story telling that could only be done… — Arvind Ethan David Copy Share Image
I always wanted to make the matches in some way different unique and interesting. I never wanted to have that basic match.… — Gail Kim Copy Share Image
