“Without people hurting one another, there’s no such thing as story. There’s no such thing as history. The entire record of human… — Van Badham Copy Share Image
Storytelling sticks in the mind because it attaches emotions to events, and that's the way we remember things. If you don't tell… — Nick Morgan Copy Share Image
To be Black is the greatest fiction of my life. Yet I'm still bound to its myth. I can't help but think… — RaMell Ross Copy Share Image
The right sort of gossip is a charming and stimulating thing. The Odyssey itself is simply glorious gossip, and the same may… — J. E. Buckrose Copy Share Image
There was a real conflation of hero and victim in the wake of 9/11, in our perverse desire to create a triumphant… — Jess Walter Copy Share Image
“Am I boring you? I don't really care, I suppose, but I'll be more comfortable if I knew all this interested you.… — John Barth Copy Share Image
You have to think about good storytelling and characters first. Then hopefully, the rest of that stuff will follow, some more than… — Pete Docter Copy Share Image
Eminem has been someone that I've always considered the greatest ever, to ever do it. You know what I mean? In every… — Joyner Lucas Copy Share Image
“I read Greek myths. I read about far off places, Venice and Paris. I read about men who searched for things they… — Alice Hoffman Copy Share Image
I went to a seminar early in my career on the craft of storytelling by Robert McKee. It was really life altering.… — Jane Jensen Copy Share Image
...what I enjoy in a narrative is not directly its content or even its structure, but rather the abrasions I impose upon… — Roland Barthes Copy Share Image
Folk-lore means that the soul is sane, but that the universe is wild and full of marvels. Realism means that the world… — Gilbert K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
“All narrative begins for me as listening. When I read, I listen. When I write, I listen—for silence, inflection, rhythm, rest. Then… — Toni Morrison Copy Share Image
Writing, to me, is like kayaking a river. You are paddling down, and you come to a walled-off canyon, and you make… — Peter Heller Copy Share Image
“The Rough Beast snorted. “You don’t get it at all, buddy. It’s not about wrestling. It’s about stories. We’re storytellers.” Caperton studied… — Sam Lipsyte Copy Share Image
“We’re all “storytellers.” We don’t call ourselves storytellers, but it’s what we do every day. Although we’ve been sharing stories for thousands… — Carmine Gallo Copy Share Image
When writing, you can't break physical rules. You can't have people come back from the dead. That's cheating. I am a kind… — Malcolm Gladwell Copy Share Image
Storytelling is powerful; film particularly. We can know a lot of things intellectually, but humans really live on storytelling. Primarily with ourselves;… — Richard Linklater Copy Share Image
There's a reason that all societies and cultures and small bands of humans engage in myth-making. Fundamentally, it is to help us… — Philipp Meyer Copy Share Image
The continuous narrative of existence is a lie. There is no continuous narrative, there are lit-up moments, and the rest is dark. — Jeanette Winterson Copy Share Image
I do notice that I spend a lot of all my time steeped in different forms of myth, such as English folk… — Jez Butterworth Copy Share Image
I remember that the day I finished 'The Angels,' part three of 'The Book of Laughter and Forgetting', I was terribly proud… — Milan Kundera Copy Share Image
Please write Narrative Report abut >> An aciedcnt ?please I need it now and it should be 10 lines and be nice… — James Copy Share Image
I love storytelling so for me to get behind a story and get in there early in its infancy and kind of… — Josh Hutcherson Copy Share Image
We go through life owned by the stories we tell ourselves which are often historic and charged narratives - things we've learnt… — Derren Brown 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
“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
My family were great story-tellers. My mum was one of 12 and they were all fighting to tell stories. You have to… — Denise Mina 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
“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
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
“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
For so long, I just let people surmise what they would about my life and my choices, and other people have written… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Having made films, I know very well that the scope of the average 90- to 120-minute movie is about the same narrative… — Paul Auster Copy Share Image
The old handbook on writing is 'Write what you know.' I come from an autobiographical starting place almost all of the time,… — Rodney Crowell Copy Share Image
Even within single sentences, there are sudden changes of register. And when the travellers go to Venice, they see a play by… — Mark Ravenhill Copy Share Image
Part of the power of all storytelling is reassurance, offering hope to those sat in the darkness, that good can succeed and… — Charles Sturridge Copy Share Image
We need narrative; it feeds us in a particular way, and deconstructing it completely before you've actually experienced it, I think it… — Joss Whedon Copy Share Image
I've met talespinners before, Jake, and they're all cut more or less from the same cloth. They tell tales because they're afraid… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
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