For the myth is the foundation of life; it is the timeless schema, the pious formula into which life flows when it… — Thomas Mann Copy Share Image
Right before 'American Dreams,' I started to pursue these avenues, like short films and getting into a couple night courses to really… — Tom Verica Copy Share Image
We can never safely exceed the actual facts in our narratives. Of pure invention, such as some suppose, there is no instance.… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
India, the new myth--a collective fiction in which anything was possible, a fable rivalled only by the two other mighty fantasies: money… — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image
When narratives fracture, when words fail, I take consolation from the part of my life that always works: the stationery order. The… — Hilary Mantel Copy Share Image
“Each piece of trash that floated here seems to have brought a story with it across the sea, because anything that's been… — Wu Ming-Yi Copy Share Image
When you don't put your initials behind your name, and I've got tons of them, and when you talk about storytelling or… — Brené Brown Copy Share Image
Fantasy, in addition to being great storytelling, moves us at some unique and profound level. It has, I think, the power of… — Lloyd Alexander Copy Share Image
“Sometimes, reading to my children at night, the perverse thought would come to me that in rehashing for them the same fairy… — Nicole Krauss Copy Share Image
“Unlike uplifting light fiction, narrative nonfiction’s trammeled territory provides no safe room where an unnerved writer can banish their unpleasant memories. Narrative… — Kilroy J. Oldster Copy Share Image
Lifelong wrestling fans who are discovering NXT and being like, 'Wait, this is the kind of wrestling I used to like,' or,… — Sami Zayn Copy Share Image
I always find time to read novels and poetry as well as scripts; I like to enjoy different kinds of storytelling. I… — Rose McIver Copy Share Image
“Although social relationships may be crippled by acrimonious minefields, manipulative psychological gambits or mysterious undercurrent power games, a number of social tell-tale… — Erik Pevernagie Copy Share Image
I got the script of Imperial Dreams from my agent. I was at home having a full English breakfast and the email… — John Boyega Copy Share Image
Our life always expresses the result of our dominant thoughts. It is an adventure, a storybook with each chapter a new tale.… — Allie McLaughlin Copy Share Image
“I have quite a story to tell you,” Parke said with a dramatic flair. “Sit back with that ‘coke’ and listen to… — Derek Hart Copy Share Image
While I don't like violent programs per se, I do like good storytelling, which made me a fan of shows like Breaking… — Hank Stuever Copy Share Image
Without sounding too pretentious, I was sort of a slave to the narrative. When the narrative cracks in, I have to go… — Jon Ronson Copy Share Image
We're constantly striving to bring something new and different to the table, either in the way that we're using the cameras, or… — Joe Russo Copy Share Image
“I see folktales and myths as humankind's first stories. They are a kind of collective dreaming, filled with timeless symbols and images… — Marianna Mayer Copy Share Image
I was trained in storytelling by Jim Shooter, Stan Lee, and Larry Hama. Doesn't make me a genius, and there really isn't… — Christopher Priest Copy Share Image
We use music, cinematic storytelling and very stylized backgrounds to create mood and atmosphere as 'Samurai Jack' travels an exotic landscape. The… — Genndy Tartakovsky Copy Share Image
Although by 1851 tales of adventure had begun to seem antiquated, they had rendered a large service to the course of literature:… — Carl Clinton Van Doren Copy Share Image
I loved adventure movies. I loved movies where people went on an adventure to an unknown land, an undiscovered country, or a… — Tom Hiddleston Copy Share Image
So much Western storytelling comes from Scandinavia. I've read that in the past, storytellers would travel to Iceland and exchange stories. It's… — Richard Dormer Copy Share Image
Daft Wee Stories' is, as the title says, daft wee stories. I just sort of rattled them out, tried to make them… — Limmy Copy Share Image
“Wish not for treasure you can hold, No gleaming jewels, bright and cold, For finer still than pearl or gold, The treasure… — Brian Holguin Copy Share Image
What we refer to confidently as memory is really a form of storytelling that goes on continually in the mind and often… — William Maxwell Copy Share Image
Everybody has a wicked side, whether they are six or sixty, and yet so often storytelling draws a sharp line between good… — Christopher Meledandri Copy Share Image
In the field of aesthetic theory, humans are pattern-seeking creatures. That can be seen in terms of musical structures, patternmaking, even in… — Kehinde Wiley Copy Share Image
“If someone tells you what a story is about, they are probably right. If they tell you that that is all a… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
VR should offer an experience that's more exciting than watching in 2D, and we're pretty good at 2D storytelling, so the bar's… — Doug Liman Copy Share Image
I've come to believe that what draws women to true crime tales is an instinctual understanding that this is the world they… — Megan Abbott Copy Share Image
“To spin the tale with great flourish but never live the tale is the power of vision strangled to fiction by the… — Craig D. Lounsbrough Copy Share Image
“You’re a storyteller. Dream up something wild and improbable," she pleaded. "Something beautiful and full of monsters." “Beautiful and full of monsters?"… — Laini Taylor Copy Share Image
“Everyone will say I'm insane, but I don't care, Rose. Is it insane to marry the girl I love? A girl with… — Melanie Dickerson Copy Share Image
The Tories in England had long imagined that they were enthusiastic about the monarchy, the church and beauties of the old English… — Karl Marx Copy Share Image
We do live in an age where film references are as relevant as tales from our past and the stories of our… — Emma D'Arcy Copy Share Image
Not all of E. Nesbit's children's books are fantasies, but even the most realistic somehow seem magical. In her holiday world, nobody… — Michael Dirda Copy Share Image
There is an enduring feeling that women can write domestic dramas but don't have the muscularity or the vision to write state-of-the-nation… — Lynn Nottage Copy Share Image
