“Stories trace their roots to impassioned human interactions with the world. I always sense a storyline as an emotional yearning embedded in… — Kilroy J. Oldster Copy Share Image
The tremendous challenge of narrative journalism about subjects that are underreported is, how do you make people care about something they think… — Sarah Stillman Copy Share Image
We live immersed in narrative, recounting and reassessing the meaning of our past actions, anticipating the outcome of our future projects, situating… — Peter Brooks Copy Share Image
The great enemy of the truth is very often not the lie, deliberate, contrived and dishonest, but the myth, persistent, persuasive and… — John F. Kennedy Copy Share Image
Increasingly unable to create for itself a relevant body of myth, the modern imagination will ransack the treasure house of the classic. — George Steiner Copy Share Image
There are no events but thoughts and the heart's hard turning, the heart's slow learning where to love and whom. The rest… — Annie Dillard Copy Share Image
“There's always someone who secretly believes in myths and legends; or at least parts of them. Those are the people who will… — Aprilynne Pike Copy Share Image
Children tell themselves stories, engage in self-delusion and fantasy, but those narratives are more evolving than calcified - and with that malleability… — Laura van den Berg Copy Share Image
“This got me thinking about endings and how the final moments of a story can color our entire perception of a narrative.… — Crystal Cestari Copy Share Image
You know, I didn't write my books for critics and scholars. I wrote them for students and artists. When I hear how… — Joseph Campbell Copy Share Image
The Tale Of Love On my fading day, I may Sneak in, to throw a tale Of, what words cannot touch, And… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“Jesus and institutional religion are on a collision course, and those who go with Jesus will find more adventure, freedom, and religion-bursting… — Ronnie McBrayer Copy Share Image
As it unfolded, the structure of the story began to remind me of one of those Russian dolls that contain innumerable ever-smaller… — Carlos Ruiz Zafon Copy Share Image
“They teach us that human beings learn and absorb ideas and concepts through narrative, through stories, not through lessons or theoretical speeches.… — Carlos Ruiz Zafón Copy Share Image
I was always very interested in the storytelling decisions that went into directing. It just held this real allure for me. You… — Fred Savage Copy Share Image
“Which story do you want to hear my child?"he picked him up and made him sit on his lap. "Tell us the… — Chitralekha Paul Copy Share Image
The power of storytelling - of elevating the voices and examples of incredible leaders who have overcome odd after odd - remains… — Caroline Ghosn Copy Share Image
True stories, autobiographical stories, like some novels, begin long ago, before the acts in the account, before the birth of some of… — Harold Brodkey Copy Share Image
Things we are accustomed to regard as myth or fairy story are very much present in people's lives. Nice people behave like… — Diana Wynne Jones Copy Share Image
Writers have it easy. If you write a bestseller or have your book made into a movie, you'll never have to work… — Sara Sheridan Copy Share Image
I don't think I ever watched a movie without being totally immersed in the story. But at the same time, I had… — Raoul Peck Copy Share Image
The short story is a very natural mode of storytelling; most stories can be told quickly. I always think of them as… — Kevin Barry Copy Share Image
In documentary films, being able to be a storytelling and embrace film as an art form - while being very clearly connected… — James Redford Copy Share Image
“The narratives we create in order to justify our actions and choices become in so many ways who we are. They are… — Cheryl Strayed Copy Share Image
A lot of writers dream of feature films, but television - by way of TNT, CBS, Lifetime, and Hallmark Hall of Fame… — Luanne Rice Copy Share Image
In spite of recent trends towards fabricating photographic narratives, I find, more than ever, traditional photographic capture, the 'discovery' of found narratives,… — Richard Misrach Copy Share Image
If my tale has to revolve around a protagonist and there is action around him, I can only imagine him to be… — Gautham Menon Copy Share Image
We tell myths over and over again, lest we forget who we are, lest we not understand that these tales take us… — Julie Taymor Copy Share Image
In spite of all the dishonour, the broken standards, the broken lives, The broken faith in one place or another, There was… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“So there’s a freeing up that happens when I can go into that storytelling mode...It isn’t about how much sense you make,… — Nalo Hopkinson Copy Share Image
I plan years in advance, but I like to leave enough space in the narrative scheme to change things, because I always… — Grant Morrison Copy Share Image
What I think of as 'freakonomics' is mostly storytelling around an idea - not a theme but an idea. I like ideas… — Stephen J. Dubner Copy Share Image
Mani Ratnam was a favourite filmmaker because he did mainstream storytelling but always had a very real context or political backdrop. — Kabir Khan Copy Share Image
“A tale may have exactly three beginnings: one for the audience, one for the artist, and one for the poor bastard who… — Catherynne M. Valente Copy Share Image
It's great that I can look up a fact instantly on my cellphone, but I miss the days in my room with… — Russell Smith Copy Share Image
My feeling of the whole genre, of the terror tale, is this: The best thing that you can do for the readers… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
A good writer gets better only by learning to cut, to remove the ornamental, the descriptive, the narrative, and especially the deeply… — David Mamet Copy Share Image
For this too I learned, that a storyteller's tale may end, but history goes on always. These events, so distant in legend,… — Jacqueline Carey Copy Share Image
There are two different forms of storytelling: Novels tend to come from the inside of a character, and movies tend to look… — Walter Kirn Copy Share Image
I've never been able to write narrative as a character, really. Jenny Lewis, I love her stuff, I love that she can… — Lauren Mayberry Copy Share Image
