Our lives with all their miracles and wonders are merely a discontinuous string of incidents - until we create the narrative that… — Arlene Goldbard Copy Share Image
I like to think that storytelling is something that can always bring success, if you tell it in the right way and… — Noah Kahan Copy Share Image
I've always loved writing, and the impulse for me is storytelling. I don't sit down and think: 'What political message can I… — Randa Abdel-Fattah Copy Share Image
Zachary Jernigan can't write a bad story. He couldn't even if he tried. Each and every time I start one of his… — David Anthony Durham Copy Share Image
Truth, naked, unblushing truth, the first virtue of all serious history, must be the sole recommendation of this personal narrative. — Edward Gibbon Copy Share Image
Myths are stories about people who become too big for their lives temporarily, so that they crash into other lives or brush… — Anne Carson Copy Share Image
There will always be storytelling, whether it's on the big silver screen, or it's your television or your iPhone or whatever, people… — Stellan Skarsgard Copy Share Image
Social media companies must combine their mastery of the latest in real-time, location based or augmented reality technologies in the service of… — Simon Mainwaring Copy Share Image
There is a myth that writers get to choose their stories. You don't get to choose your story any more than you… — Alexandra Fuller Copy Share Image
This is the Ben Crump model: He goes into a city, creates a narrative, cherry picks facts to establish, to prove that… — Daniel Cameron Copy Share Image
“All that's needed now is a great novel that will capture the imagination of the public - move them, enrage them, thrill… — Michael Farber Copy Share Image
I just thought someone has to figure out how to break through that barrier and create a narrative for a black super… — Kerry James Marshall Copy Share Image
“And if I'm guilty of having gratuitous sex, then I'm also guilty of having gratuitous violence, and gratuitous feasting, and gratuitous description… — George R. R. Martin Copy Share Image
“But if we are to grasp the full value of the materials, we must note that myths are not exactly comparable to… — Joseph Campbell Copy Share Image
“even nursery tales only echo an almost pre-natal leap of interest and amazement. These tales say that apples were golden only to… — G.K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
“Fairy tales, fantasy, legend and myth...these stories, and their topics, and the symbolism and interpretation of those topics...these things have always held… — Helen Pilinovsky Copy Share Image
There can be no stronger proof of the impoverishment of our contemporary culture than the popular - though profoundly mistaken - definition… — Rollo May Copy Share Image
“I bleed words. I dream in narrative. I live in infinite worlds. I befriend figmental characters. I wish on stars in other… — Richelle E. Goodrich Copy Share Image
Unscrupulous agitators have been at work spreading atrocity stories which can only be compared with those lies that were fabricated by the… — Adolf Hitler Copy Share Image
It's actually pretty complex, because there's two levels of reality in the narrative. One is what really took place, and the other… — Gabriel Byrne Copy Share Image
For me, I've always been fascinated by tales of the Chinese railroad and the workers and the conditions of the workers who… — Lisa Joy Copy Share Image
Touching on universality is an important part of effective storytelling, but the problem with cliches is that they are tired and dull.… — Miguel Syjuco Copy Share Image
In terms of the mechanics of story, myth is an intriguing one because we didn't make myth up; myth is an imprinture… — Baz Luhrmann Copy Share Image
“A myth is 'a narrative involving supernatural or fancied persons embodying popular ideas or social phenomena.' Women love telling stories . .… — Lucy O'Brien Copy Share Image
“The romantic fairy tales we grew up with -- where marriage is the happy ending rather than the opening scene -- are… — Ada Calhoun Copy Share Image
Star Wars has always struck a chord with people. There are issues of loyalty, of friendship, of good and evil... The theme… — George Lucas Copy Share Image
Historical facts are the vital framework around which non-fiction writers construct their narratives; they are, quite simply, indispensable. — Saul David Copy Share Image
Just because something is told as a story and that story is part legend or myth, or feat of imagination, does not… — Chris Priestley Copy Share Image
“Narration, after all, isn’t just a literary function. It represents the human capacity to tell stories in such a manner that they… — Steve Almond Copy Share Image
“The folktale world is oriented positively toward its protagonist; a folktale is defined by the hero's triumph: magic weapons and helpers are,… — Darko Suvin Copy Share Image
“This consideration takes us very close to what it is that makes Greek tragedy “tragic.” A play about an unambiguously heroic young… — Daniel Mendelsohn Copy Share Image
“Mythology can be defined as the sacred history of humankind. This is different from what we call "history." Mythical stories, when you… — Gerald Hausman Copy Share Image
“What, you thought that one story was somehow more real than all the others, just because it’s the one that has the… — Seanan McGuire Copy Share Image
I didn't corner the market on great stories. I'm not the only one who can do something like work at a grocery… — Kurt Warner Copy Share Image
“Myth basically serves four functions. The first is the mystical function,... realizing what a wonder the universe is, and what a wonder… — Joseph Campbell Copy Share Image
“It made a romantic tale. The young rouge, cheating death, returning to his grieving lover. But in reality? Ashyn had always known… — Kelly Armstrong Copy Share Image
Orson Welles was a force of nature, who just came in and wiped the slate clean. And Citizen Kane is the greatest… — Martin Scorsese Copy Share Image
“One finds the same basic mythological themes in all the religions of the world, from the most primitive to the most sophisticated,… — Joseph Campbell Copy Share Image
Nothing ever begins. There is no first moment; no single word or place from which this or any story springs. The threads… — Clive Barker Copy Share Image
The desire for story is very, very deep in human beings. We are the only creature in the world that does this;… — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image
