“Old stories sometimes slid out of her like lamp oil or light, stories containing details oblique and nearly incomprehensible to me or… — Peggy Herring Copy Share Image
“The Bible-as-narrative takes precedence over our attempts to express Christian belief in propositional or abstract terms, which is to say the stories… — Sarah Arthur Copy Share Image
This is all I ever wanted - to help students and artists see myth as a reflection of the one sublime adventure… — Joseph Campbell Copy Share Image
Stories live in your blood and bones, follow the seasons and light candles on the darkest night-every storyteller knows she or he… — Patti Davis Copy Share Image
There was also the myth of the western films. But my films are borrowed not from the story of the West in… — Sergio Leone Copy Share Image
During the last economic slowdown in the 1990s, the Tories slashed infrastructure investment. I am determined not to make that mistake. — Geoff Hoon Copy Share Image
Even if I made pornography, the trauma would show, though. It will always be there because it's my verité. It's my kind… — Lav Diaz Copy Share Image
I myself wouldn't want to read a magazine that focuses solely on a small part of the literary field or of the… — Toni Jerrman Copy Share Image
'Orphan Black' allows for people to have debates and theories and allegiances to different characters - to trust characters and hate other… — Tatiana Maslany Copy Share Image
Myths, as compared with folk tales, are usually in a special category of seriousness: they are believed to have "really happened,"or to… — Northrop Frye Copy Share Image
“For as long as she can remember, telling stories has been her momma's gift to those around her, fables filled with rich,… — Sara Stark Copy Share Image
“Family myths are cherished by the people who--however unwittingly--have brought them into being. In my own situation, what my father was really… — Mark Sichel Copy Share Image
I've always been interested in medicine and was pleased when my brother became a doctor. But after thinking seriously about that field,… — Lois Lowry Copy Share Image
“I had the view of a castle of romance inhabited by a rosy spirit, such a place as would somehow, for diversion… — Henry James Copy Share Image
One of the reasons why I think virtual reality, as a narrative format, is never going to go beyond the short-form immersion… — Steven Soderbergh Copy Share Image
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“A myth has been well described as something that in some sense happened once—but that also happens all the time. It is… — Karen Armstrong Copy Share Image
I wrote my first two long novels and an anthology of short narratives, when I was a manager of my own jazz… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
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Sometime let gorgeous Tragedy In sceptred pall come sweeping by, Presenting Thebes, or Pelops' line, Or the tale of Troy divine. — John Milton Copy Share Image
Stories twist and turn and grow and meet and give birth to other stories. Here and there, one story touches another, and… — Marcus Sedgwick Copy Share Image
I can do my part of the storytelling. I can carry it. I can paint it. I can maneuver it. I can… — Nicolas Winding Refn Copy Share Image
Fairy tales opened up a door into my imagination - they don't conform to the reality that's around you as a child.… — Kate Atkinson Copy Share Image
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I'm a lover of film and storytelling. I believe that I was put on earth to tell stories, and I'm not interested… — Justin Simien Copy Share Image
As filmmakers, we love ambitious storytelling; it's one of the reasons we pushed to do 'Civil War.' We want to be as… — Joe Russo Copy Share Image
Helen Tse tells a gripping tale of struggle, laughter, love and food that marks Sweet Mandarin as a must read book. It… — Ken Hom Copy Share Image
Dialogue in fiction should be reserved for the culminating moments and regarded as the spray into which the great wave of narrative… — Edith Wharton Copy Share Image
People who experience themselves as authentic are also experiencing themselves as myth, but that's not the narrative they're going with. — Rachel Kushner Copy Share Image
[I have a] way of making narrative sculpture, where first you make a text and out of that text you make objects.… — Matthew Barney Copy Share Image
Our culture thrives on black-and-white narratives, clearly defined emotions, easy endings, and so, this thrust into complexity exhausts. — Caroline Knapp Copy Share Image
I've always been a happy-go-lucky person. I haven't got any dark tales, I didn't draw on my own past, I'm from a… — Vicky McClure Copy Share Image
Things have character. So I'm interested in how the character of the thing might function as a protagonist in what isn't a… — Jessica Stockholder Copy Share Image
“Greater skill is needed to create a myth than it is to awkwardly present the truth subjectively, or raw form. It doesn't… — VD Copy Share Image
Well, if storytelling is important, then your narrative ability, or your ability to put into words or use what someone else has… — Howard Gardner Copy Share Image
My background was producing and writing and performing in television when I started out, and I really missed that, that whole creative… — Eric Bana Copy Share Image
There are so many canceled games that people don't know about and so many stories people can't tell because they're restricted by… — Jason Schreier Copy Share Image
I like the storytelling and reading the letters, the long-distance dedications. Anytime in radio that you can reach somebody on an emotional… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The problem with fairy tales is that they set a girl up for disappointment. In real life, the Prince goes off with… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
There's a very old tradition of theater actors doing their own makeup. It's like putting on your mask. There's an element of… — Phillipa Soo Copy Share Image
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