The three touchstones that woke Buddha up - sickness, old age, and death - are a pretty good place to start when… — Paul Di Filippo Copy Share Image
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Narrative Collapse is what happens when we no longer have time in which to tell a story. Remote controls and DVRs give… — Douglas Rushkoff Copy Share Image
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“The story had held us, round the fire, sufficiently breathless, but except the obvious remark that it was gruesome, as, on Christmas… — Henry James Copy Share Image
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I want the camerawork to fit the narrative and tell the story from the point of view of the character, but sometimes,… — Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu Copy Share Image
Storytelling strengthens the imagination. To imagine is to envision, to see with the inward eye. This ability to imagine is the basis… — Carol Birch Copy Share Image
Look at the people who are coming to television Ridley Scott, Ang Lee or Guillermo del Toro - all these great filmmakers… — Ron Perlman Copy Share Image
Marjan. I have told him tales of good women and bad women, strong women and weak women, shy women and bold women,… — Susan Fletcher Copy Share Image
It's only recently that I've come to understand that writers are not marginal to our society, that they, in fact, do all… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
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“Traumatic memories have a number of unusual qualities. They are not encoded like the ordinary memories of adults in a verbal, linear… — Jon Krakauer Copy Share Image
I always tell this story: When I started, the woman went to the store to buy a dress. She saw it in… — Oscar de la Renta Copy Share Image
“I sit on a foldaway chair at the lakeside, sipping hot cocoa and admiring the sunset behind distant clouds, pondering my next… — I.J. Sarfeh Copy Share Image
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Theatre, film and television are all modes of storytelling, and many of us are fortunate enough to move freely among them without… — Theresa Rebeck Copy Share Image
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Nowadays I’m really cranky about comics. Because most of them are just really, really poorly written soft-core. And I miss good old… — Joss Whedon Copy Share Image
“At this point it may be helpful to remember the distinction that the narratologist Gérard Genette makes between story and narrative.46 A… — Ellen F. Davis Copy Share Image
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“Well, alright. Let’s see... Long ago, in the castle town of a kingdom far, far away, there lived a girl named Cinderella...”… — Patora Fuyuhara Copy Share Image
“Once upon a time, isn't that how all fairy tales begin? Except this isn't your average fairy tale. There are no charming… — Amy Sumida Copy Share Image
“Generally speaking, all true children's stories make promises to their readers. Here you are, they say, unhandy and short, and there is… — John Goldthwaite Copy Share Image
“Some stories are easy to follow, and easy to tell. There is an introduction, a twist, and a happily-ever-after. And when telling… — Andrea Tomić Copy Share Image
Unlike other books or TV shows or sometimes life, my narrative worlds are stripped of implicit moral centers. There is only what… — Chris Abani Copy Share Image
“But Andrew was right about one thing. Human beings need to tell stories. Historically, it's the quickest way we have for transmitting… — Hugh MacLeod Copy Share Image
I definitely managed to do different kinds of things. My focus is usually who the director is, because at the end of… — Bryce Dallas Howard Copy Share Image
Well, the medium of film is so different than a book that just by bringing it into visual storytelling is to change… — Melissa Rosenberg Copy Share Image
Our thesis is that symbols and myths are an expression of man's unique self-consciousness, his capacity to transcend the immediate concrete situation… — Rollo May Copy Share Image
In the native literatures of North America there aren't any novels. Instead, the major genre is myth. And myths are stories that… — Robert Bringhurst Copy Share Image
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