“The narrative fallacy, Bezos explained, was a term coined by Nassim Nicholas Taleb in his 2007 book The Black Swan to describe… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“The most classic horror tale of this latter type is the Old Testament story of Job, who becomes human Astro-Turf in a… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
“This isn’t some sweet Disney bedtime story. This is a real fairy tale. With death, and blood, and suffering. And I never… — Craig Schaefer Copy Share Image
I don't see a lot of narratives written where a woman who looks like me gets to be beautiful and sexualized and… — Viola Davis Copy Share Image
The problem with memory is that is changes whatever it touches. It is never that accurate. As a result, I end up… — Li-Young Lee Copy Share Image
I am and always have been fascinated with people, and I have a very good time coming up with the narratives of… — Bennett Miller Copy Share Image
Our experience with knowledge, the way we know things, is not that neat. It doesn't fit into a grand narrative, the way… — Richard Misrach Copy Share Image
I am a person who believes in asking questions, in not conforming for the sake of conforming. I am deeply dissatisfied -… — Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie Copy Share Image
“Like Wide Sargasso Sea and Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead, fanfiction asserts the rights of storytellers to take possession of characters and… — Anne Jamison Copy Share Image
I don't differentiate game design and script; it is one and only document. I think that one of the biggest problem with… — David Cage Copy Share Image
When we're in the story, when we're part of it, we can't know the outcome. It's only later that we think we… — James Robertson Copy Share Image
Myths are about the human struggle to deal with the great passages of time and life--birth, death, marriage, the transitions from childhood… — Michael Shermer Copy Share Image
There is something feeble, and a little contemptible, about a man who cannot face the perils of life without the help of… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
“When a story gets wedged in your head and refuses to go away, when it keeps coming back, again and again, despite… — Nidhie Sharma Copy Share Image
Though fairy tales end after ten pages, our lives do not. We are multi-volume sets. In our lives, even though one episode… — Clarissa Pinkola Estes Copy Share Image
A writer is always, always searching, even against her will, against all her better instincts, for the thread of a story. Everything… — Miriam Toews Copy Share Image
My background with acting is deeply interwoven with my family life and my childhood. It's a 'Peter Pan'-like narrative, something that was… — Cole Sprouse Copy Share Image
“Stories give you a way to see things. A way to understand the events of your life. Even if you don't realize… — Matthew Kirby Copy Share Image
For me, any fiction of nobles and swords necessarily has to be a story of corruption, injustice and savagely violent conflict -… — Richard K. Morgan Copy Share Image
[In mountaineering, if] we look for private experience rather than public history, even getting to the top becomes an optional narrative rather… — Rebecca Solnit Copy Share Image
From early on there were two things that filled my life - music and storytelling, both of them provoked by my father.… — Athol Fugard Copy Share Image
The thing I love about this story [The Killing] and this type of storytelling is that I don't have to know the… — Veena Sud Copy Share Image
The reason that I like to use classical myths as models is because African American writers and African American stories are usually… — Jesmyn Ward Copy Share Image
What I like about fairy tales is the language and the matter-of-fact way of introducing magic, where it's accepted that a fox… — Alice Hoffman Copy Share Image
When American liberals go to the UK they see the Tories as the Washington Generals, and they see the Labor Party as… — Rush Limbaugh Copy Share Image
“It's the kind of story that people tell. There are monsters in this world, to be sure, but there are a sight… — Gerald Morris Copy Share Image
...What happens is of little significance compared with the stories we tell ourselves about what happens. Events matter little, only stories of… — Rabih Alameddine Copy Share Image
I love creating individual short stories within chapters, but I want to get better at building consistent narratives from start to finish. — David Crabb Copy Share Image
I was excited to discover, in this tale by Eliade, the key themes that I most hope to understand better time, consciousness… — Francis Ford Coppola Copy Share Image
A beautifully written tale that lives somewhere between landscape and memory, where regret becomes a prison, and a story told often enough… — Brunonia Barry Copy Share Image
“I was starting to believe I was a character in a greater story, which is why the elements of story made sense… — Donald Miller Copy Share Image
American movies are often very good at mining those great underlying myths that make films robustly travel across class, age, gender, culture. — Tom Hooper Copy Share Image
I was interested in dark subject matter for sure, including folklore, fairy tales, mythology, archetypal stories of people going into the bowels… — Robert Eggers Copy Share Image
“The rest, but a small part, is fiction, part of the mosaic of storytelling that a writer must employ to bring life… — Glenn Meade Copy Share Image
I like storytelling. We all have an active thing that we do that gives us self-esteem, that makes us proud; it's necessary.… — Paul Zindel Copy Share Image
I've spoken before on how the art of storytelling has been lost a bit. I definitely feel 'Empire' is helping to reprogram… — Ne-Yo Copy Share Image
There are no stories without meaning. And I am one of those men who can find it even when others fail to… — Umberto Eco Copy Share Image
“Things need not have happened to be true. Tales and dreams are the shadow-truths that will endure when mere facts are dust… — Michael R. Underwood Copy Share Image
“Storytellers have as profound a purpose as any who are charged to guide and transform human lives. I knew it as an… — Nancy Mellon Copy Share Image
“A people that doesn't live at the center of the world, as defined and described by its poets and storytellers, is in… — Ursula K. Le Guin Copy Share Image
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