I’ve always believed that as an author, I do 50% of the work of storytelling, and the reader does the other 50%.… — Shannon Hale Copy Share Image
We all have incredible relationships to what we eat, to what we don't eat, to what we've eaten since childhood and what… — Samin Nosrat Copy Share Image
What do you know about yourself? What are your stories? The ones you tell yourself, and the ones told by others. All… — Cameron Dokey Copy Share Image
“...re-writing the narratives that define us, making new meanings and imagining different endings. ... As our earliest caregivers transcribed our sensations, feelings… — Philippa Perry Copy Share Image
“The story of Eve and the serpent, and of Noah and his ark, drops to a level with the Arabian Tales, without… — Thomas Paine Copy Share Image
“In the end nothing matters but the work. You can’t control how it’s taken, and the act of telling a story always… — Patrick Somerville Copy Share Image
The biggest difference for me is that the tales really have no logical outlet, no particular infrastructure in which to present them… — Larry Fessenden Copy Share Image
I'm not a fan of endless mystery in storytelling - I like to know where the mythology's going; I like to get… — Eric Kripke Copy Share Image
I think the actor has a tribal role as the archetypal story teller. I think there was a time when the storyteller,… — Ben Kingsley Copy Share Image
When you tell a story, there are imperatives of structure, of style, of pacing and all of this, that are there simply… — H. W. Brands Copy Share Image
“Storytelling, you know, has a real function. The process of the storytelling is itself a healing process, partly because you have someone… — Alice Walker Copy Share Image
“I had a mother who read to me Sagas of pirates who scoured the sea. Cutlasses clenched in their yellow teeth; "Blackbirds"… — Strickland Gillilan Copy Share Image
“So they went out for a walk. They went through narrow, lightless lanes, where houses that were silent but gave out smells… — Amit Chaudhuri Copy Share Image
I'm not a fan of Dr. Seuss's better-known work, but his fables leave me awe-struck. 'Ten Tall Tales' is a collection of… — Giles Andreae Copy Share Image
“Too often we sit back and speak platitudes of the nitty-gritty bits of writing; the editing, the story structure, the verbal sparring… — Rachel Heffington Copy Share Image
We still like to make up stories, just as our ancestors did, which use personification to explain the great forces of our… — John Frederick Nims Copy Share Image
“My generation grew up with an imposed myth: the myth of happily ever after -- (and makes you do the same). Whether… — Erica Jong Copy Share Image
William Shakespeare was the most remarkable storyteller that the world has ever known. Homer told of adventure and men at war, Sophocles… — Marchette Chute Copy Share Image
“Even though this princess loved the oak and the castle and her mother, the queen, she tired of the beautiful swamp, of… — Sara Stark Copy Share Image
“If every minute of time elapsed on the screen equals in length of time every other minute, and obviously it does, and… — Dan Joseph Decker Copy Share Image
“I began writing my nonfiction memoir to explain why women, "don't just leave." My exciting, narrative-driven memoir aspires to to save others… — Cassi Janzek Copy Share Image
...You believe that the kind of story you want to tell might be best received by the science fiction and fantasy audience.… — Orson Scott Card Copy Share Image
Storytelling is one of comics' esthetic hurdles at the moment, which was the novelist's problem 150 years ago: namely, to take comics… — Chris Ware Copy Share Image
“For man seems to be unable to live without myth, without the belief that the routine and drudgery, the pain and fear… — Alan Wilson Watts Copy Share Image
“Stored personal memories along with handed down collective memories of stories, legends, and history allows us to collate our interactions with a… — Kilroy J. Oldster Copy Share Image
“Stories nowadays are put in to squares, just like everything else. Stories are ever changing. They are like rivers that flow, but… — James Rozoff Copy Share Image
“Besides, she likes my stories. They are like fairy tales, I suppose, full of kings and queens and adventures. Ma says people… — Kristin Kladstrup Copy Share Image
When you move the camera, or you do a shot like the crane down (in Shawshank) with them standing on the edge… — Roger Deakins Copy Share Image
The claim that myth is always a narrative spin-off of ritual; the claim that myth is the projection of human anxieties onto… — Robert Bringhurst Copy Share Image
People create the illusion of acting natural, which is what I think most documentarians do in part because of the direct cinema… — Joshua Oppenheimer Copy Share Image
“Yesterday,’ she said, referring to the collective past of her tribe, ‘the people of these forests knew the secret. They made the… — Lidija Stankovikj Copy Share Image
I've got a number of stories written so far in that mythos, more lined up to be written, and a narrative arc… — Hal Duncan Copy Share Image
One of the things that bugs me about the Western Literary Tradition is that the conventions of narrative in particular seem to… — Lidia Yuknavitch Copy Share Image
When you do a TV show, the cumulative intimacy you develop with the audience through your characters is pretty profound. It may… — Howard Gordon Copy Share Image
“You call a tree a tree, he said, and you think nothing more of the word. But it was not a 'tree'… — J.R.R. Tolkien Copy Share Image
Some people feel like you need to have a very specialized understanding of music to have the authority to talk about it.… — Henry Jackman Copy Share Image
Are you a storyteller, Thomas Covenant?" Absently he replied, "I was, once." "And you gave it up? Ah, that is as sad… — Stephen R. Donaldson Copy Share Image
In a sense, every human construction, whether mental or material, is a component in a landscape of fear because it exists in… — Yi-Fu Tuan Copy Share Image
We cherish the conventional story of Dr. King and nonviolence, in fact, precisely because that narrative demands so little of us…This conventional… — Timothy B. Tyson Copy Share Image
I think we create our world through stories. We use storytelling to escape or protect ourselves from the unimaginable and the horrible… — Joshua Oppenheimer Copy Share Image
