People don't think in terms of information. They think in terms of narratives. But while people focus on the story itself, information… — Jonah Berger Copy Share Image
“Magic is the most interesting art because people not necessarily want to learn to paint after they see a great painting, but… — Amit Kalantri Copy Share Image
Remember, the essence of storytelling demands that we place our main characters on a path. A quest with something at stake, with… — Larry Brooks Copy Share Image
“Tales within tales. Dreams within dreams. Pattern on pattern and path beyond path. For such short-lived folks, the human kind seem determined… — Juliet Marillier Copy Share Image
It took many years to accept that fantasy is the fuel for my storytelling passion, and without that, I really am a… — Kelley Armstrong Copy Share Image
I've always been interested in the manufacturing of narratives, identities, and ideologies, and how they are embodied and negotiated by viewers. — Martine Syms Copy Share Image
I love an action sequence that's not just purely about the rollercoaster of it, but a sequence that allows the storytelling to… — Gareth Evans Copy Share Image
It is in your DNA to love a good story. You know, neat tales with heroes and villains and conflicts to resolve.… — Barry Ritholtz Copy Share Image
I'm not interested in gothic storytelling or the horrific for its own sake. I'm always interested in it as a way of… — Scott Derrickson Copy Share Image
“Then there is the other secret. There isn't any symbolysm [sic]. The sea is the sea. The old man is an old… — Ernest Hemingway Copy Share Image
I had a mind to make a body of more or less connected legend, ranging from the large and cosmogonic, to the… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The myth of Canada, its hidden story, is of a contemplative country, a place of inwardness, where people can question the idea… — B. W. Powe Copy Share Image
There is really no fiction or non-fiction; there is only narrative. One mode of perception has no greater claim on the truth… — E. L. Doctorow Copy Share Image
“He fills my head with tales from the ancient forests, tales so old that the trees themselves call them legends. It is… — Maryrose Wood Copy Share Image
Dream is personalized myth, myth is depersonalized dream; both myth and dream are symbolic in the same general way of the dynamics… — Joseph Campbell Copy Share Image
I enjoy a third act, and I like stories with ending. A lot of my frustration with serialized storytelling is a lot… — Nic Pizzolatto Copy Share Image
Stories,' the green-eyed Sigrid said, unperturbed, 'are like prayers. It does not matter when you begin, or when you end, only that… — Catherynne M. Valente Copy Share Image
As the Tories sit back with their fingers in their ears, we'll continue to offer solutions that show how we will make… — Rachel Reeves Copy Share Image
“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
A myth is a fixed way of looking at the world which cannot be destroyed because, looked at through the myth, all… — Edward de Bono Copy Share Image
“For most of human history, myths have survived through changing times because they did not demand to be seen as a literal… — Jonah Sachs Copy Share Image
What's fun to me is that we can make movies but we are no longer restricted by this two-hour timeframe. It gives… — Matt Duffer Copy Share Image
“People often think of storytelling as a performative act of persuading others, conveying messages, and selling ideas. But we must recognize that… — Calvin Niles Copy Share Image
“And giving it a happy ending, when all know that tales never end, and the happy ending is but a moment to… — Robin Hobb Copy Share Image
Ever since human beings learned to talk to each other, we've been fascinated with storytelling of every kind. Blessed (or cursed) with… — Lloyd Alexander 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
“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
“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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
“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
![“Then there is the other secret. There isn't any symbolysm [sic]. The sea is the sea. The old man is an old man. The boy is a boy and the fish is a fish. The shark are all sharks no better and no worse. All the symbolism that people say is shit. What goes beyond is what you see beyond when you know.” quote by Ernest Hemingway](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/33d/ernest-hemingway-83_old-man_then-there-is-the-other-secret-there-isn_2113368.jpg)
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