“To know if a tale is worth its weight in gold, check if it reveals threefold. In your bloodstream. In the town… — Amruta Patil Copy Share Image
“Everything I do in its essence is about helplessness. That's the story I want to tell all the time. It's the story… — Joss Whedon Copy Share Image
“the characterization of actions allegedly prior to any narrative form being imposed upon them will always turn out to be the presentation… — Alasdair MacIntyre Copy Share Image
I meet a number of people as a writer of fiction who say "Oh, I don't read much fiction," as if the… — Yann Martel Copy Share Image
The road and the tale have both been long, would you not say so? The trip has been long and the cost… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
I like to think traditional narrative can be subverted by an experiential narrative, by an immersion in the temporal event of the… — Rick Alverson Copy Share Image
I had always loved cartoons, especially 'Bugs Bunny,' and I found I enjoyed making animated films. Even a 30-second commercial involved drawing… — Mordicai Gerstein Copy Share Image
“The lively oral storytelling scene in Scots and Gaelic spills over into the majority English-speaking culture, imbuing it with a strong sense… — Sara Sheridan Copy Share Image
Christian apologists who argue that a story about an empty tomb is convincing evidence of a resurrected body are likely unfamiliar with… — David G. McAfee Copy Share Image
My child, you have a flawed grasp of the nature of myth-making. I am a poet and storyteller, a creator of ballads… — Frances Hardinge Copy Share Image
I guess the wildcard here is Terrence Malick. He supervised me while I was writing the script for Beautiful Country, and he… — Sabina Murray Copy Share Image
“I believe that we need good tale-tellers now, as much as we did when the oral tradition was the only way that… — Alan Lee Copy Share Image
“When the anthropologist asked the Kwakiutl for a map of their coast, they told him stories: "Here? Salmon gather. Here? Sea otter… — Ralph Metzner Copy Share Image
“After 55 years at the bar and a career as a law professor it may seem strange that I wouild write a… — F.J. Bowman Copy Share Image
“You walked into this village with a thunder tiger beside you. You have slain demons with your own hands. Are the old… — Jay Kristoff Copy Share Image
We have demythologized prematurely, that we've actually lost the vocabulary for discussing reality at its largest scales. The idea that myth is… — Marilynne Robinson Copy Share Image
There must be possible a fiction which, leaving sociology and case histories to the scientists, can arrive at the truth about the… — Ralph Ellison Copy Share Image
“A noble quest, Kirsch thought, despite seeing it as an empty exercise—a meaningless search for random points of correspondence among a hodgepodge… — Dan Brown Copy Share Image
At DePauw, I was teaching writing and fiction. The things I wanted to teach, more than anything else, were form and theory… — Nic Pizzolatto Copy Share Image
Why will people persist in reading strange meanings into the simplest of story? Is it not enough that a writer can entertain… — Margaret Mitchell Copy Share Image
“Our myths, our legends, aren't necessarily true, but they are truly necessary. They have to do with the way we interpret the… — Jo Walton Copy Share Image
This is the power of myth: that we can experience invisible spiritual realities and truths greater than visible, material things in story… — John Granger Copy Share Image
“Roz is telling a story. That's what they will do, increasingly in their lives: tell stories. Tonight their stories will be about… — Margaret Atwood Copy Share Image
What I like is not a particular genre, it's storytelling. There's a lot of great storytelling in jazz, and in folk and… — Lizz Wright Copy Share Image
“Myth must be kept alive. The people who can keep it alive are the artists of one kind or another. The function… — Joseph Campbell Copy Share Image
“He reads histories and mythologies and fairy tales, wondering why it seems that only girls are ever swept away from their mundane… — Erin Morgenstern Copy Share Image
Having a magical element in a realistic setting without explanation seems to me to be the hallmark of fairy tales, which present… — Laurie Foos Copy Share Image
My education - my Ph.D. in storytelling - comes from having worked on it, being a lover of film and watching them,… — Taylor Sheridan Copy Share Image
That's the great thing about rock n' roll: the myth is ultimately more important than the reality. And that's what you learn… — Billy Corgan Copy Share Image
My work as a screenwriter has influenced my fiction. Writing screenplays forces you to consider many elements regarding story structure and other… — Carlos Ruiz Zafon Copy Share Image
I like directing much better. It's more fun, that's all there is to it. It's essentially the same job, which is storytelling,… — Mel Gibson Copy Share Image
The original fairy tale was about the youngest sister going into a room in the castle and finding all the bodies of… — Alice Hoffman Copy Share Image
A story has no beginning or end: arbitrarily one chooses that moment of experience from which to look back or from which… — Graham Greene Copy Share Image
I always approach storytelling with the idea that the audience will get it. They understand almost better than we do, because they… — Salim Akil Copy Share Image
“Don't resist the urge to burn down the stronghold, kill off the main love interest or otherwise foul up the lives of… — Patricia Hamill Copy Share Image
If you were a god, how would you like being called a myth, an old story to explain lightning? What if I… — Rick Riordan Copy Share Image
I wanted to rock back and forth between myth and distant futures, yesterday, today, and tomorrow. It felt a bit like prophecy… — George Murray Copy Share Image
“The power to narrate, or to block other narratives from forming and emerging, is very important to culture and imperialism, and constitutes… — Edward Said Copy Share Image
Buildings for me represent opportunities of agency, transformation, and storytelling. They are not just artifacts. There is this big tradition of buildings-as-artifacts… — David Adjaye Copy Share Image
Myth and fairy-story must, as all art, reflect and contain in solution elements of moral and religious truth (or error), but not… — J. R. R. Tolkien Copy Share Image
