“The role of a story was, in the broadest terms, to transpose a single problem into another form. ... It was like… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
And that's the way of a real tale. Take any one that you're fond of. You may know, or guess, what kind… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The pilot is a sales tool; it introduces you to the characters and might set the template for what the show is… — Michael Spiller Copy Share Image
Every kid loves fairy tales, stories of witches and giants and magicians. Then, when you get a little older you can't read… — Stan Lee Copy Share Image
When I about six years old, I loved watching '20/20.' I didn't really know what news was at that age, but I… — Jen Psaki Copy Share Image
the more a body tries to explode all the foolish myths that have grown up about Texas by telling the truth, the… — Molly Ivins Copy Share Image
During his brilliant campaign, President Obama wove a powerful narrative about the American we all hope for. And that hope was grounded… — Cynthia P. Schneider Copy Share Image
“For one last second, I saw them again the way I had that evening: a golden apparition on the front steps, shining… — Tana French Copy Share Image
“There either is or is not, that’s the way things are. The colour of the day. The way it felt to be… — Mitch Glazer Copy Share Image
“I believe, when it comes to storytelling ... that mistakes are often the beginning of the best ideas. After all, a mistake… — Orson Scott Card Copy Share Image
“The vigor I lacked for physical activities became incandescent when, pen in hand, I filled those pages with invented stories. Sometimes they… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“The greater White House wholly believed that the story was an invented construct of weak if not preposterous narrative threads, with a… — Michael Wolff Copy Share Image
I have always enjoyed dealing with a slightly surrealistic situation and presenting it in a realistic manner. I've always liked fairy tales… — Stanley Kubrick Copy Share Image
I used to think about video games, "This is clearly an amazing, new narrative medium, and it's going to be mind-blowing when… — Alex Garland Copy Share Image
If you take myth and folklore, and these things that speak in symbols, they can be interpreted in so many ways that… — Diana Wynne Jones Copy Share Image
“I'm no writer, but still I want to record my days. And books have given me all the words I need. I… — Tiffany McDaniel Copy Share Image
I'm very interested in talking about children in this moment where you are going to become a teenager, and I think it's… — Lucile Hadzihalilovic Copy Share Image
It's populated by people who, by and large, have terrific communication skills. Every day is an extraordinary day. For me, it was… — Aaron Sorkin Copy Share Image
'Black Mirror' obviously has its own universe, with a very strong fingerprint and strong themes, and I was intrigued on reading. It's… — Max Richter Copy Share Image
Yet it is the narrative that is the life of the dream while the events themselves are often interchangeable. The events of… — Cormac McCarthy Copy Share Image
“Societies everywhere have a tendency to construct a genealogically useful past for themselves in which desirable versions of their history are favored… — Tudor Parfitt Copy Share Image
“of the race, untrammelled by the necessity of rigid adherence to the fact. The myths record the earliest attempt at an explanation… — Hamilton Wright Mabie Copy Share Image
Film is all about telling stories, and telling stories is the thing that has pushed forward humanity from the beginning of storytelling. — Nia DaCosta Copy Share Image
The great thing about games is that it's tremendously collaborative, and it opens you up to this other world of thinking and… — Bruce Feirstein Copy Share Image
You may tell a tale that takes up residence in someone's soul, becomes their blood and self and purpose. That tale will… — Erin Morgenstern Copy Share Image
“The novel is the privileged vehicle of two ways of being: narrative and freedom: to be new (novel) in a speech open… — Carlos Fuentes Copy Share Image
“Though a story may begin as a lie, perhaps it can be made true. Perhaps their ultimate power is found in how… — Matthew J. Kirby Copy Share Image
“Reading, once begun, quickly becomes home and circle and court and family; and indeed, without narrative, I felt exiled from my own… — M.T Anderson Copy Share Image
There's a creative freedom to comics, and a fulfillment I get out of panel layouts and storytelling that is hard for me… — Joe Madureira Copy Share Image
I purposely adopted a style in my storytelling wherein I don't have to explain everything or why the story is moving in… — Shoojit Sircar Copy Share Image
I wrote two plotted books, got some of the fundamentals of storytelling down, then... it's sort of like taking the training wheels… — Jonathan Franzen Copy Share Image
Very young children love and demand stories, and can understand complex matters presented as stories, when their powers of comprehending general concepts,… — Oliver Sacks Copy Share Image
Keep in mind that we're always up to other things, so we tend to sit on things from time to time. In… — Glenn McQuaid Copy Share Image
I was the British spy who had come out of the woodwork and told it how it really was, and anything I… — John le Carre Copy Share Image
“Myths are the retrospective transfiguration of sacrificial crises, the reinterpretation of those crises in light of the cultural order that has arisen… — René Girard Copy Share Image
Nothing was easy, and sometimes she failed, and sometimes she thought that the fairy stories were right, that there must indeed be… — Sonya Hartnett Copy Share Image
“When you talk to an author or an artist, you’re only ever getting half the story. We are crafting narratives for you.… — Phoebe North Copy Share Image
Film makers should be able to experiment with narrative without alienating the audience and without creating something that's impenetrable. — Christopher Nolan Copy Share Image
...Fan fiction is a way of the culture repairing the damage done in a system where contemporary myths are owned by corporations… — Henry Jenkins Copy Share Image
“It is the storyteller, the dream-maker, the myth-maker, that is our phoenix, that represents us at our best, and at our most… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
