“Picture to yourself the most beautiful girl imaginable! She was so beautiful that there would be no point, in view of my… — Walter Moers Copy Share Image
“For anyone who wants to understand the art of storytelling, this film [The Hunt for Red October] should suffice; one wonders why… — Muriel Barbery Copy Share Image
If you do really good storytelling, things that people also might anticipate and that they might have seen before - there's a… — Kimberly Peirce Copy Share Image
Horror grows impatient, rhetorically, with the Stoic fatalism of Ecclesiastes. That we are all going to die, that death mocks and cancels… — Michael Chabon Copy Share Image
Like every human we have to categorize ourselves, so you kind of start to build a mythos 'cause I had no information… — Keegan-Michael Key Copy Share Image
“In the old stories, despite the impossibility of the incidents, the interest is always real and human. The princes and princesses fall… — Andrew Lang Copy Share Image
“Contemporary writers use animal-transformation themes to explore issues of gender, sexuality, race, culture, and the process of transformation...just as storytellers have done,… — Terri Windling Copy Share Image
I think we're always in the process of writing and rewriting the story of our lives, forming our experiences into a narrative… — Sam Keen Copy Share Image
“The television dramas we grew up on, stories of star-crossed lovers, stories of love overcoming all obstacles, well, they’re all fairy tales,… — Anthony Marra Copy Share Image
“The truth is that, just as in the other imitative arts one imitation is always of one thing, so in poetry the… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
I may love individual people, but I am contemptuous of the arrogance , and in a way, it's both ruined me and… — Larry Fessenden Copy Share Image
How then can we account for the persistence of the myth that inside the empty nest lives a shattered and depressed shell… — Lillian B. Rubin Copy Share Image
“Chaucer's world in The Canterbury Tales brings together, for the first time, a diversity of characters, social levels, attitudes, and ways of… — Ronald Carter Copy Share Image
I've never been very interested in literary narrative in movies, it always seems an obligatory trait and the least interesting of all… — Rick Alverson Copy Share Image
There are a number of times when we have found, there's a number of old-school special effects in here that are fantastic,… — Kimberly Peirce Copy Share Image
If I have to pick one story that most influenced 'The Hunger Games,' it would be the Greek myth of Theseus, which… — Suzanne Collins Copy Share Image
Important thing about myth is that it's not just something that you believe, a myth is essentially a program for action. And… — Karen Armstrong Copy Share Image
I was not really aware of the dystopian genre before I read 'The Handmaid's Tale.' Many poets as well, like John Donne… — Samantha Shannon Copy Share Image
“Every adult life could be said to be defined by two great love stories. The first—the story of our quest for sexual… — Alain de Botton Copy Share Image
“Think of every fairy-tale villainess you've ever heard of. Think of the wicked witches, the evil queens, the mad enchantresses. Think of… — Jim Butcher Copy Share Image
“It is a dreadful thing to wait and watch for the approach of death; to know that hope is gone, and recovery… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
It's not about superheroes. This is the method of universal storytelling that all people have... To me, they're the same as the… — Patty Jenkins Copy Share Image
I had the most incredible English and literature teachers in school, and it really influenced my love of storytelling. It's what made… — Sophia Bush Copy Share Image
What keeps faith cheerful is the extreme persistence of gentleness and humor. Gentleness is everywhere in daily life, a sign that faith… — Garrison Keillor Copy Share Image
“Human beings across every culture I know about require such stories, stories with cool winds and wood smoke. They speak to something… — Peter Straub Copy Share Image
“Most high and happy princess, we must tell you a tale of the Man in the Moon, which if it seem ridiculous… — John Lyly Copy Share Image
“Now these ashes have grown cold, we open the old book. These oil-stained pages recount the tales of the Fallen, a frayed… — Steven Erikson Copy Share Image
The fabliau, then, is a short story that is a tall story. It combines a burly blurting of dirty words with a… — Christopher Ricks Copy Share Image
“Philosophic thoughts allow people to use human reason and imagination to consider eternal matters and explore the ramifications of their own transience.… — Kilroy J. Oldster Copy Share Image
“We draw our lines around these moments of pain, and remain upon our islands, and they cannot hurt us. They are covered… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
The myth holds us, therefore, not through its romantic flavor, not the remembrance of beauty of some bygone age, not through the… — Mark Rothko Copy Share Image
“I love the way folktale and fantasy tap into the roots of story telling. The paradox, for me, is that by moving… — Guy Gavriel Kay Copy Share Image
The fairy tale that really scared me was Bluebeard. That's the one where he just kills one after another of these woman,… — Meryl Streep Copy Share Image
When we make films - even 2D films - you're always trying to create this illusion of 3D, anyway. You're trying to… — Rob Minkoff Copy Share Image
Digression is my passion. I'm not kidding. I love telling the main stories, but in some ways, what I love most is… — Erik Larson Copy Share Image
“The stories in books hate the stories in newspapers, David's mother would say. Newspaper stories were like newly caught fish, worthy of… — John Connolly Copy Share Image
I've always loved theatre because it's so immediate. The challenge of it is that, career wise, it's easier to get traction in… — Steven C. Harper Copy Share Image
The thing that's really cool for me about Miami Beach is you have this dichotomy between sunlight and family and happiness and… — Mitch Glazer Copy Share Image
It is a skill we learn early, the art of inventing stories to explain away the fearful scared strangeness of the world.… — William Kittredge Copy Share Image
A need to tell and hear stories is essential to the species Homo sapiens-second in necessity apparently after nourishment and before love… — Reynolds Price Copy Share Image
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