We love working within the Sparks three-and-a-half-minute song format, but we also like the extended format of a narrative project. — Russell Mael Copy Share Image
In December 2011, I will be opening up my production house, Sharmeen Obaid Films, and aspire to change the way Pakistanis approach… — Sharmeen Obaid-Chinoy Copy Share Image
First of all, I don't dislike direct storytelling - people seem to think that about my games! Actually, the truth is, I'm… — Hidetaka Miyazaki Copy Share Image
I've been obsessed with this kind of visual storytelling for quite a while, and I try to create material that allows me… — Brian De Palma Copy Share Image
Back in the day, you'd walk down to a street corner and see some people making a story with a hat in… — Rosario Dawson Copy Share Image
“...required for good fiction: character, conflict, change through time. And if you're really blessed, you get resolution. But life doesn't usually work… — Ted Conover Copy Share Image
Most memoirs about alcoholism, promiscuity, and addiction are deep, sobering tales full of scars that will never heal and include alarming statistics… — Kate Madison Copy Share Image
Blending consensus historical events and personages with imaginary occult forces is a strong recipe for counterfactual storytelling goodness that combines the best… — Paul Di Filippo Copy Share Image
As a fiction writer you train yourself to think about situations subjectively. I don't really care for narratives that are just A,… — Oscar Hijuelos Copy Share Image
“A story, I had learned, through my own constant knitting and reknitting of remembered words, can lead us back to ourselves, to… — Vaddey Ratner Copy Share Image
“ Confession time: I doubt I would ever have picked up one of Marjorie’s books, had I not met her in person.… — Bill Willingham Copy Share Image
We want to do things that are interesting, great storytelling, some of it is gonna be more fun and funny, some of… — John Legend Copy Share Image
“How should we be able to forget those myths that are at the beginning of all peoples, the myths about dragons that… — Rainer Maria Rilka Copy Share Image
“The best stories proceed from a mysterious truth-seeking impulse that narrative has when revised extensively; they are complex and baffling and ambiguous;… — George Saunders Copy Share Image
Many male habitues of massage parlors, like Talese, did not like solitary masturbation; in the parlance of the younger generation, it was… — Gay Talese Copy Share Image
The holiday season is a time for storytelling, and whether you are hearing the story of a candelabra staying lit for more… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“Imagine a room of a hundred people huddled around a control panel, doing everything in their power to capture the attention of… — Calvin Niles Copy Share Image
“In those timeless years between infancy and, say, seven what is has always been: in that way children inhabit the realm of… — Margaret Atwood Copy Share Image
I don't need to write comics for a living. I have movies and TV for that. I write comics for one reason… — J. Michael Straczynski Copy Share Image
Losing all the preconceptions that I had about storytelling, about the world, you know, and learning to see the world from a… — Ciro Guerra Copy Share Image
“A story unfolds over time and often involves characters and events. In the corporate context, they often serve the aim to 'inCITE':… — Calvin Niles Copy Share Image
I try to look on the sunny side of life. If something dramatic happens to me, I always try to recount it… — Suzanne Shaw Copy Share Image
Because of my Marxism, I was not into myths or miracles, whether it was the virgin birth, the physical resurrection or casting… — Lionel Blue Copy Share Image
The interface of history and myth is where my stories take place anyway, and there's always a way I'm trying to tap… — Steve Stern Copy Share Image
Not all poetry wants to be storytelling. And not all storytelling wants to be poetry. But great storytellers and great poets share… — Sarah Kay Copy Share Image
Thinking through how you find that intersection between individual, compelling human narratives and structural, systemic injustices - that's the place that's most… — Sarah Stillman Copy Share Image
A lot of storytelling... you're a bit hypnotized by it, and things just come out in certain ways, and you look at… — Owen King Copy Share Image
The idea that the curtain rises on what is often more or less a happy scene, and it will fall just a… — Daniel Handler Copy Share Image
“To be capable of great love, (that of myths, legends, and fairy tales), one must have had more so, greatly suffered, (that… — Cody Edward Lee Miller Copy Share Image
In movies, storytelling and every single art form, we're creating wonder. You're starting with a blank page and creating something that doesn't… — David Copperfield Copy Share Image
“This is the man who will be my grandfather—the man who will be the man who was my grandfather. The tenses slur… — Wendell Berry Copy Share Image
The great thing about fairy tales and myths is that they go beyond character. They're not about character. They're about more basic… — Neil Jordan Copy Share Image
I'm partial to epic poetry, which might be surprising given that I don't write poetry at all. The combination of rollicking storytelling… — Jennifer Egan Copy Share Image
The whole dear notion of one's own Self-marvelous old free-willed, free- enterprising, autonomous, independent, isolated island of a Self- is a myth. — Lewis Thomas Copy Share Image
If you're doing a big spectacle film, you've got to be mindful of large masses. Even then, you've got to be responsible… — Guillermo del Toro Copy Share Image
So here is my story, may it bring Some smiles and a tear or so, It happened once upon a time, Far… — Brian Jacques Copy Share Image
In terms of 'Ray Donovan,' the story is so rich, the actors are so fantastic, the writing is impeccable. And it's such… — Katherine Moennig Copy Share Image
'The Terminator' is grounded in so much realism. It's again a story that centers around a woman that isn't a 'woman's picture'… — Zal Batmanglij Copy Share Image
“When my mom was alive, she read me stories every night. ”Use your imagination, Lorelei,” she’d say, “and your whole life can… — Nikki Loftin Copy Share Image
“In Paris, where raillery is so quick to throw emotion out the window, silence, in a roomful of clever people after a… — Jules Barbey d'Aurevilly Copy Share Image
