[In mountaineering, if] we look for private experience rather than public history, even getting to the top becomes an optional narrative rather… — Rebecca Solnit Copy Share Image
American movies are often very good at mining those great underlying myths that make films robustly travel across class, age, gender, culture. — Tom Hooper Copy Share Image
I was interested in dark subject matter for sure, including folklore, fairy tales, mythology, archetypal stories of people going into the bowels… — Robert Eggers Copy Share Image
A beautifully written tale that lives somewhere between landscape and memory, where regret becomes a prison, and a story told often enough… — Brunonia Barry Copy Share Image
“I was starting to believe I was a character in a greater story, which is why the elements of story made sense… — Donald Miller Copy Share Image
“It's the kind of story that people tell. There are monsters in this world, to be sure, but there are a sight… — Gerald Morris Copy Share Image
...What happens is of little significance compared with the stories we tell ourselves about what happens. Events matter little, only stories of… — Rabih Alameddine Copy Share Image
I love creating individual short stories within chapters, but I want to get better at building consistent narratives from start to finish. — David Crabb Copy Share Image
I'm seeing more and more interesting horror come my way. More and more interesting thrillers and genre films are coming my way… — Karyn Kusama Copy Share Image
“Breitbart’s genius was that he grasped better than anyone else what the early twentieth-century press barons understood—that most readers don’t approach the… — Joshua Green Copy Share Image
Within the field of a secular society, which is a sort of neutral frame that allows individuals to develop their own lives,… — Joseph Campbell Copy Share Image
Much as my Boomer friends will hate me for saying this, Kanye West is the New Dylan. Not only do Kanye's best… — Dan Hill Copy Share Image
I think every person either inherits or eventually makes up their own idea of what they are and who they are and… — Marvin Minsky Copy Share Image
My love of storytelling comes from oral tradition, the stories from my grandmother and conversations with [my] mother. The world is full… — Lucrecia Martel Copy Share Image
I think comedy allows people to accept the more difficult parts of history. And history, if it's presented wrong, is just very… — James McBride Copy Share Image
Faithfulness to the truth of history involves far more than a research, however patient and scrupulous, into special facts. Such facts may… — Francis Parkman Copy Share Image
I was excited to discover, in this tale by Eliade, the key themes that I most hope to understand better time, consciousness… — Francis Ford Coppola Copy Share Image
“Half an hour later, as I was deeply immersed in the story of The Man of the Hill, that curious, lengthy digression… — Jonathan Coe Copy Share Image
Film and television are major vehicles for American storytelling, and America is the biggest exporter and influencer in the world in terms… — Tamlyn Tomita Copy Share Image
But short films are not inferior, just different. I think the short gives a freedom to film-makers. What's appealing is that you… — Jane Campion Copy Share Image
A myth is an old lie that people believe in. White people believe that they're better than anyone else on earth -… — Ernest Gaines Copy Share Image
Over the years, myths were built up about my relationship with Fred Astaire. The general public thought he was a Svengali, who… — Ginger Rogers Copy Share Image
The storytelling in a movie is in the cut; it's in the edit. It's not an actor's job, really. Your job is… — Kerry Bishe Copy Share Image
We have, as human beings, a storytelling problem. We're a bit too quick to come up with explanations for things we don't… — Malcolm Gladwell Copy Share Image
It's what people have always done. They have always told stories, put on plays. It's characters and narrative and thought and context… — Ken Loach Copy Share Image
The story of the African-American people is the story of the settlement and growth of America itself, a universal tale that all… — Henry Louis Gates Copy Share Image
I will tell you something about stories . . . They aren't just entertainment. Don't be fooled. They are all we have,… — Leslie Marmon Silko Copy Share Image
“All good writing is persuasive writing; persuading the reader to buy what you're selling, to side with you, to believe the tales… — Ramsey Isler Copy Share Image
I grew up not reading fiction; I watched movies and read comic books, and one of the ways I taught myself to… — Kevin Wilson Copy Share Image
To me, there is nothing but puerility in a tale in which the human form - and local human passions and conditions… — H. P. Lovecraft Copy Share Image
Part of what makes me love acting so much is, I love the mystery of the universe and the human experience, and… — Mariana Klaveno Copy Share Image
Plots are artificial. Does your life have a plot? It has characters. There is a narrative. There's a lot of story, a… — Richard Linklater Copy Share Image
I surrendered to a world of my imagination, reenacting all those wonderful tales my father would read aloud to me. I became… — Andrew Wyeth Copy Share Image
You have to think about storytelling over the long haul: what is going to engage an audience for, potentially, years and how… — Jeremy Podeswa Copy Share Image
Narrative and characters have always interested me. I never tried to alienate an audience. Of course, gradually, I wanted a bigger and… — Miranda July Copy Share Image
“It is a precisely datable historical event having the full weight that real historical happenings have; like them, too, it happens once… — Pope Benedict XVI Copy Share Image
“Laugh and cry and tell stories. Sad stories about bodies stolen, bodies no longer here. Enraging stories about the false images, devastating… — Eli Clare Copy Share Image
“So that’s why I’m such a big fan of storytelling. I think the most important thing is empathy. And it’s less about… — Jeanette Walls Copy Share Image
I have always admired the Russian cinema, their incisive storytelling, sharp camera work and brilliant acting in them. Indian filmmakers can learn… — Victor Banerjee Copy Share Image
The funny thing is that in Bosnia there are no words that are equivalent to fiction and nonfiction. From the storytelling point… — Aleksandar Hemon Copy Share Image
![“[In mountaineering, if] we look for private experience rather than public history, even getting to the top becomes an optional narrative rather than the main point, and those who only wander in high places become part of the story.” quote by Rebecca Solnit](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/1e6/rebecca-solnit-569_high-places_in-mountaineering-if-we-look-for-private_78831.png)
![“My love of storytelling comes from oral tradition, the stories from my grandmother and conversations with [my] mother. The world is full of discussions of condensation, drifts, misunderstanding, repetition. These are the materials I work with. My debt is to these women.” quote by Lucrecia Martel](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/771/lucrecia-martel-47278_communication_my-love-of-storytelling-comes-from-oral_2757192.jpg)
![“Narrative and characters have always interested me. I never tried to alienate an audience. Of course, gradually, I wanted a bigger and bigger space to draw people in, so it's very organic [growth].” quote by Miranda July](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/81a/miranda-july-1600_audience_narrative-and-characters-have-always-int_1677503.jpg)
