If a large number of people who are convinced alien abductions are real are hypnotising even larger numbers of others who suspect… — Bryan Appleyard Copy Share Image
[Polo Is My Life] is what's called a sex book - you know, sex, drugs and rock and roll. It's about the… — Hunter S. Thompson Copy Share Image
“What the story does do, all it can do, is to transform us from readers into listeners, to whom 'a' voice speaks,… — E.M. Forster Copy Share Image
I think that the idea of boundaries is being challenged everywhere. And I think our fascination with sci-fi is that it is… — Jake Gyllenhaal Copy Share Image
We talked to a lot of filmmakers who had worked on other anthologies and we looked at every anthology, and we wanted… — Mike Mendez Copy Share Image
The most amazing thing for me is that every single person who sees a movie, not necessarily one of my movies, brings… — Steven Spielberg Copy Share Image
What is becoming more interesting than the myths themselves has been the study of how the myths were constructed from sparse or… — Arthur C. Clarke Copy Share Image
I think there's a great storytelling tradition in the restaurant business that tends to attract people with an oral tradition of bulls… — Anthony Bourdain Copy Share Image
“People who don’t construe their life and don’t frame their own tale, stay on the sidelines, remain only an act without a… — Erik Pevernagie Copy Share Image
“All fairy tales, Tolkien argued, echo the gospel of Jesus Christ in some way because the gospel is the True Story; it’s… — Sarah Arthur Copy Share Image
I think, in some ways, that is the balm of stories, of fables, of tales: it's the way we're wired. We have… — Debra Granik Copy Share Image
I've always really been interested in the Pygmalion myth and both what it has to say about creativity and what it has… — Zoe Kazan Copy Share Image
Many of the narratives can only tend to excite ideas the worst calculated for a female breast: Every thing is called plainly… — Matthew Lewis Copy Share Image
When I was shooting the film I did not see the story as an everyday tale or a social one. To a… — Andrey Zvyagintsev Copy Share Image
“My mother had comforted me with tales ever since I was small. Sometimes they helped me peel a problem like an onion,… — Anita Amirrezvani Copy Share Image
“All of the great mythologies and much of the mythic story-telling of the world are from the male point of view. When… — Joseph Campbell Copy Share Image
Once upon a time fairy tales were told to audiences of young and old alike. It is only in the last century… — Terri Windling Copy Share Image
“In Russian fairy tales, the narrative flows a little differently. In those stories, you won’t find a tale for Cinderella, one for… — Catherynne M. Valente Copy Share Image
“A few mad exaggerations, alright, within a couple of days: swear to fucking god, they were like throwing grenades and pulling out… — China Miéville Copy Share Image
The music that I first fell in love with was American music, really. Nothing against British acts - I love them and… — George Ezra Copy Share Image
Radio, or at least the kind of radio we're proposing to do, can cut through that. It can reach people who would… — Daniel Alarcon Copy Share Image
You could ask: Why are people attracted to narratives that justify the terrible things that we're doing to the planet? Why are… — Charles Eisenstein Copy Share Image
People have always told tales. Long before humanity learned to write and gradually became literate, everybody told tales to everybody else and… — Gunter Grass Copy Share Image
“One of the greatest myths in the world–and the phrase “greatest myths” is just a fancy way of saying “big fat lies”–is… — Lemony Snicket Copy Share Image
I met Laura Morton through a friend who had hired her to help her write her own story. Though Laura is chock-full… — Randi Zuckerberg Copy Share Image
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The power of both myth and art is this magical ability to open doors, to make connections — not only between us… — Alan Lee Copy Share Image
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“All old stories, my cousin, will bear telling and telling again in different ways. What is required is to keep alive, to… — A.S. Byatt Copy Share Image
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The narrative for girls is that you just hang around and wait to be "chosen" and then you belong to somebody and… — Lindy West Copy Share Image
If we wish to know about a man, we ask 'what is his story--his real, inmost story?'--for each of us is a… — Oliver Sacks Copy Share Image
My theory for nonfiction is that nobody can be free of some kind of conceptions about whatever story they're writing. But if… — George Saunders Copy Share Image
I believe that we are a story-driven species and that we understand how things are put together, in the context of narrative.… — Ann Druyan Copy Share Image
Ghost stories are always listened to and well received in private, but pitilessly disavowed in public. For my own part, ignorant as… — Immanuel Kant Copy Share Image
I remember how as I kid I would love stories of every kind - whether they were narrated in school or what… — Tahir Raj Bhasin Copy Share Image
“In one of these tales, ‘The Ascetic’, the title character tells his interlocutor that paradises and nirvanas are ‘illusions inside other illusions.… — Fernando Pessoa Copy Share Image
Growing up in Ireland, there never seemed to be the notion that children should be seen and not heard. We all looked… — Maeve Binchy Copy Share Image
All my life Ive made up fairy tales of my prince charming. Countless Cinderella stories that helped make my fairy tale a… — Reezy Copy Share Image
Audiences will see what they want to see. Some will come out, hopefully enjoying two hours of action. Some people will find… — Colin Farrell Copy Share Image
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