“Fairy tales have a habit of ending too soon. They never show what happens afterwards when the prince and princess ride off… — Kate Morton Copy Share Image
Sometimes the art pieces I gravitate toward speak to me in terms of narrative, at other times they speak to me in… — Claudia Rankine Copy Share Image
We aren't natural statisticians. What we are is natural storytelling machines. And so what we do after we have the facts in… — Michael Lewis Copy Share Image
I plan less and less. It's a great benefit of writing lots, that you get good at holding long narratives in your… — Jonathan Lethem Copy Share Image
I think the cinema-going public are smart enough to separate fiction from reality but suspend their disbelief for long enough to be… — Adam Pearson Copy Share Image
The Tories have been offering us a cocktail of incompetence and malice and Labour haven't done anything to draw attention to it.… — Frankie Boyle Copy Share Image
When you're talking about Tim Burton, you're talking about a guy that has such a visual sense, an aesthetic, a storytelling style.… — Jackie Earle Haley Copy Share Image
There's a classic element that all good Disney movies have. It really comes down to the storytelling, I think. It manages to… — Mandy Moore Copy Share Image
Almost any tale of our doings is comic. We are bottomlessly comic to each other. Even the most adored and beloved person… — Iris Murdoch Copy Share Image
To read fiction means to play a game by which we give sense to the immensity of things that happened, are happening,… — Umberto Eco Copy Share Image
“One measure of how deeply these myths express elemental human concerns is the extent to which they are both timeless and universal.… — Margaret Mark Copy Share Image
One of my heroes, G.K. Chesterton, said, "The old fairy tales endure forever. The old fairy tale makes the hero a normal… — Regina Doman Copy Share Image
We didn't have any books at home. Not even children's books or fairy tales. The only 'fantastic' stories came from religion class.… — Herta Muller Copy Share Image
While the storytelling in games is getting so much better, you look at something like Grand Theft Auto V, which I thought… — David Hayter Copy Share Image
“We hold these stories and mad idea and events in our head and they run around and around telling us we are… — Maureen Muldoon Copy Share Image
At its best, fantasy rewards the reader with a sense of wonder about what lies within the heart of the commonplace world.… — Patricia A. McKillip Copy Share Image
With acting, there's a certain amount of independence you have within the framework of the storytelling. When it's done well, it's a… — Maura Tierney Copy Share Image
“But history has been adapted here, re-spun to tell Jan's tale: the story of a boy caught up in a world of… — Joanne Owen Copy Share Image
I always want to be telling stories in whatever fashion I can, and directing is really just understanding and learning a different… — Allison Mack Copy Share Image
The book has many different characteristics: some are extremely old-fashioned storytelling traits, but there are also a fair number of postmodern traits,… — Jeffrey Eugenides Copy Share Image
If you just read the book, you're taking in the narrative, you're taking in the characters, you're understanding it in a certain… — James Franco Copy Share Image
Don't just tell me a mystery; give me a world. Suzanne Myers delivers a hurricane-ravaged island shimmering with atmosphere and dense with… — Judy Blundell Copy Share Image
I don't think that digital technology will ever take away the humanity of storytelling, because storytelling is entirely, in and of itself,… — David Fincher Copy Share Image
For us, since we entered the MCU as storytellers, and we picked up the story with 'Winter Soldier,' we've been carrying a… — Anthony Russo Copy Share Image
The word story is intended to alert the reader to the fact that, however closely the narrative may fit the facts, the… — Bruce Chatwin Copy Share Image
“As the months went by, Talese began to see the masseuse as a kind of unlicensed therapist. Just as thousands of people… — Gay Talese Copy Share Image
Black storytelling can be about anything, absolutely anything, and within that it can be as enriching, as complex, beautiful, ugly as anything… — Paterson Joseph Copy Share Image
But surely to tell these tall tales and others like them would be to spread the myth, the wicked lie, that the… — Zadie Smith Copy Share Image
'St. Elmo's Fire' is one of my favorite films. I like the storytelling of those teenage American films. You don't get that… — James McAvoy Copy Share Image
“I’m not beholden to the confirmation of your prejudices; to be perfectly frank, the prospect of confining the female characters in my… — Scott Lynch Copy Share Image
Individual stories from the Bible had been made into movies, but no one had taken on the arc of the Bible story… — Roma Downey Copy Share Image
When I wrote The Virgin Suicides, I gave myself very strict rules about the narrative voice: the boys would only be able… — Jeffrey Eugenides Copy Share Image
For a truly effective social campaign, a brand needs to embrace the first principles of marketing, which involves brand definition and consistent… — Simon Mainwaring Copy Share Image
What did it for me was a blurb on the back of a book I was reading. The blurber wrote - I… — Debra Hamel Copy Share Image
For, while the tale of how we suffer, and how we are delighted, and how we may triumph is never new, it… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“The Dreamer awakes The shadow goes by The tale I have told you, That tale is a lie. But listen to me,… — Traditional folktale ending Copy Share Image
I don't procrastinate because I love the English language and the process of storytelling, and I'm always curious to see what will… — Dean Koontz Copy Share Image
Try this experiment: Pick a famous movie - 'Casablanca,' say - and summarize the plot in one sentence. Is that plot you… — Peter Greenaway Copy Share Image
The power of the documentary film, when done well, I think is usually more impacting than a narrative, at least for me.… — Richard Ray Perez Copy Share Image
“And I knew only what all men know, that the cycle of winter and spring and all growing things has within itself… — Anne Rice Copy Share Image
