I'm a memoir writer. I try to understand the world by taking experiences I have and making them into a story, whether… — Staceyann Chin Copy Share Image
The Internet has been a great outlet for storytelling. After all, there are web-based shows that have started online and have then… — Eva LaRue Copy Share Image
It’s an irritating reality that many places and events defy description. Angkor Wat and Machu Picchu, for instance, seem to demand silence,… — Anthony Bourdain Copy Share Image
“I do believe that some humans have more amazing lives than others–above all, those who don’t sit down in a chair like… — Merce Cardus Copy Share Image
We mythologists know very well that myths and legends contain borrowings, moral lessons, nature cycles, and a hundred other distorting influences, and… — Isaac Asimov Copy Share Image
“Sara Kendell once read somewhere that the tale of the world is like a tree. The tale, she understood, did not so… — Charles de Lint Copy Share Image
“I recalled the myth that I had once heard as a university student – thirty-six hidden saints in the world, all of… — Colum McCann Copy Share Image
I think that, every individual you invent in narrative work, you have to have some root in who that person is. That… — Amor Towles Copy Share Image
“Humankind’s pathetic life supplies the poetry of our existence. Just as without tragedy comedy would lose its magical qualities, life without pain… — Kilroy J. Oldster Copy Share Image
[Kafka] transformed the profoundly antipoetic material of a highly bureaucratized society into the great poetry of the novel; he transformed a very… — Milan Kundera Copy Share Image
I have long admired the visceral storytelling and moral complexity of John Vaillant’s brilliant non-fiction about humankind’s tragically ambivalent relationship with the… — John Burnham Schwartz Copy Share Image
Most kids don't believe in fairy tales very long. Once they hit six or seven they put away "Cinderella" and her shoe… — Rob Thurman Copy Share Image
At a time when history made its way slowly, the few events were easily remembered and woven into a backdrop, known to… — Milan Kundera Copy Share Image
You can think of my films as cautionary tales, but you might even think of them as despairing tales, because at least… — Errol Morris Copy Share Image
“There's this word Libel that people love to pass around when filing lawsuits against someone who accurately described them in a publication.… — Niedria Kenny Copy Share Image
“Narratives about certain experiences are somehow legitimized when mediated through a man’s perspective. Consider the work of John Updike or Richard Yates.… — Roxane Gay Copy Share Image
Men, believing in myths, will always fear something terrible, everlasting punishment as certain or probable . . . Men base all these… — Epicurus Copy Share Image
Jennifer Fulwiler's story of finding God when you aren't looking for Him is a universal tale which will touch many hearts. With… — Raymond Arroyo Copy Share Image
“Anthropological theory assumes that exposure in a treeless situation where all escape upwards was cut off led to the invention of myths.… — W.G. Sebald Copy Share Image
It has been said, "History is written by the victors." I take this to mean we can make ourselves victorious by writing,… — Jennifer Beals Copy Share Image
“But there was a catalyst, an event, a moment which changed everything and not just for us. This is good for storytelling… — Laurie Frankel Copy Share Image
I think we're in this exciting moment of Internet streaming storytelling, and it's anybody's guess what that is or what it means.… — Brit Marling Copy Share Image
That's just how I see things on a base level: there's so much going on. Or at least I like to have… — Jane Campion Copy Share Image
“This is the secret of good storytelling: to lie, but to keep the arithmetic sound. A storyteller, like any other sort of… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
We promote Asian storytelling - not just Asian stories but Asian people in stories with the full spectrum of the human experience.… — Ronny Chieng Copy Share Image
It's a risk, but I'm sort of ready to let go of thinking of movies as books that you can watch. The… — Shane Carruth Copy Share Image
The Blood of Heroes is surely the best account to date, one that presents plenty of new insights while acting as a… — William C. Davis Copy Share Image
“I’ve never liked urban myths. I’ve never liked pretending to believe in them; never understood why everyone else doesn’t see straight through… — Mikey Campling Copy Share Image
Moments are incredible, but in my fantasy mind I see a Globe company which is renowned throughout the world for what it… — Mark Rylance Copy Share Image
If it's just me on stage telling stories for, like, an hour, that's great. That's fine. But like a sandcastle on the… — Hasan Minhaj Copy Share Image
“(Washington) Irving was only the first of the writers of the American ghostly tale to recognize that the supernatural, exactly because its… — Howard Kerr Copy Share Image
“Someone is pounding on a door within you and hoping for an answer. They want to tell us the secret tale of… — Christopher Hawke Copy Share Image
Self-pity, a dominant characteristic of sociopaths, is also the characteristic that differentiates heroic storytelling from psychological rumination. When you talk about your… — Martha Beck Copy Share Image
It struck me as I listened to those two men that a truer nomination (name) for our species than Homo sapiens might… — Henning Mankell Copy Share Image
The simple circumstantial narrative (did such a narrative exist) of the ruin of a single town, of the misfortunes of a single… — Edward Gibbon Copy Share Image
There are recurring elements in popularized fairy tales, such as absent parents, some sort of struggle, a transformation, and a marriage. If… — Kate Bernheimer Copy Share Image
“My aunt and my mother read to me when I was three from all the old Grimm fairy tales, Andersen fairy tales,… — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
There are plenty of writers, past and present, from Shakespeare to Henry James to Lydia Davis, who test the limits of coherence… — Joanna Scott Copy Share Image
“The only disadvantage in surviving a dangerous experience lies in the fact that your story of it tends to be anticlimactic. You… — Beryl Markham Copy Share Image
I'm pretty good at fleshing out characters. I like to crawl inside their minds and imaginations and sort of loll about. Sticking… — Gina Ochsner Copy Share Image
![“[Kafka] transformed the profoundly antipoetic material of a highly bureaucratized society into the great poetry of the novel; he transformed a very ordinary story of a man who cannot obtain a promised job . . . into myth, into epic, into a kind of beauty never before seen.” quote by Milan Kundera](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/6b8/milan-kundera-120_beauty_kafka-transformed-the-profoundly-antipoe_2458536.jpg)
