When your hero falls from grace, all fairy tales are uncovered Myth exposed and pain magnified, the grace pays uncovered He told… — Tupac Shakur Copy Share Image
I believe in broken, fractured, complicated narratives, but I believe in narratives as a vehicle for truth, not simply as a form… — Stephen Greenblatt Copy Share Image
2013 was a year of myths falling apart. The myth of President Obama - a myth in which Obama was a messianic… — Ben Shapiro Copy Share Image
“Fairy tales are full of girls who wait, who endure, who suffer. Good girls. Obedient girls. Girls who crush nettles until their… — Holly Black Copy Share Image
It's pretty easy to think of the idea of a story, and maybe even to write a scene or two, but understanding… — Dennis Green Copy Share Image
There's a social and human necessity for some kind of continuity, but it's not axiomatic and not something you're born into; it's… — Aleksandar Hemon Copy Share Image
“Many of the best fantastic stories begin in a leisurely way, set in commonplace surroundings, with exact, meticulous descriptions of an ordinary… — Franz Rottensteiner Copy Share Image
I wanted to avoid what some modern tellers have done, quite legitimately, to make fairy tales more like novels and short stories,… — Philip Pullman Copy Share Image
“Your gift with storytelling, Evie? It's not about you getting lost in your own mind, or living in a dreamland. It's about… — Mia Sheridan Copy Share Image
Storytelling is a universal: every culture does it. There's a reason our religious books aren't simply a list of shall-and-shall-nots. Morals and… — Kameron Hurley Copy Share Image
“I’ve never believed in fairy tales. One day, the fairies will tell this story. There will be a valiant prince, a part… — T.T. Escurel Copy Share Image
Humanity's legacy of stories and storytelling is the most precious we have. All wisdom is in our stories and songs. A story… — Doris Lessing Copy Share Image
When a character has as wide an audience and as rich a history as Batman, it's truly exciting to see him introduced… — Jim Lee Copy Share Image
“Every morning brings us news of the globe, and yet we are poor in noteworthy stories. This is because no event comes… — Walter Benjamin Copy Share Image
For who can wonder that man should feel a vague belief in tales of disembodied spirits wandering through those places which they… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
A good story is alive, ever changing and growing as it meets each listener or reader in a spirited and unique encounter,… — Katherine Paterson Copy Share Image
“There are tales that rise like the early sun, breathe, and take on a life of their own. There are ones that… — Edwin Fontanez Copy Share Image
The continuous narrative of existence is a lie. There is no continuous narrative, there are lit-up moments, and the rest is dark.… — Jeanette Winterson Copy Share Image
“Their story was nothing like a romantic movie despite the epic crowd scene. Theirs was a tale of clumsy beginnings, quick getaways,… — Tracy Ewens Copy Share Image
“ 'A fine story', said Asterinov … 'Six months in prison, that tale,' said Sergei. 'Was it the witch?', I asked 'I… — Adam Roberts Copy Share Image
“The Bible is the saga of Yahweh and Adam, the prodigal son and his ever gracious heavenly father; humanity in their rebellion… — Sandra L. Richter Copy Share Image
Fairy tales were not my escape from reality as a child; rather, they were my reality -- for mine was a world… — Terri Windling Copy Share Image
You can take the high moral ground intellectually, but if it ever happens to you personally, I don't know that I could… — Richard LaGravenese Copy Share Image
“I did not make myself the heroine of my tales. Life appeared to me too common-place an affair as regarded myself. I… — Mary Shelley Copy Share Image
I try to keep deep love out of my stories because, once that particular subject comes up, it is almost impossible to… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
“These stories were very old, as old as people, and they had survived because they were very powerful indeed. They were the… — John Connolly Copy Share Image
“Toy is talking and this is why I love her. She can go on about herself ceaselessly and like the scratching of… — Erica Lorraine Scheidt Copy Share Image
While I generally find that great myths are great precisely because they represent and embody great universal truths, the myth of romantic… — M. Scott Peck Copy Share Image
“Trial Is Part of the Journey For a moment, think back about your favorite fairy tale. In that story the main character… — Dieter F. Uchtdorf Copy Share Image
“there is a growing body of work coming out of psychology and cognitive science that says you have no clue why you… — David McRaney Copy Share Image
The best memoirs - like This Boy's Life, or Crazy Brave [by Joy Harjo], for instance - bring you through a private… — Lidia Yuknavitch Copy Share Image
“I have noticed that when people tell their own stories, often it has less to do with wanting to communicate an idea… — Lydia Minatoya Copy Share Image
They're [zombies] us, you can also have the wrestler zombie, the clown zombie, the Jay Leno zombie and the nun zombie. I've… — Tom Savini Copy Share Image
“I recalled the afternoon when the two of us stood beating erasers, and Camille confided that she'd done penance for stories -… — Stuart Dybek Copy Share Image
I say 'spectacle' rather than 'story' because in the end, it isn't the intricacies of narrative that draw us to horror films.… — Clive Barker Copy Share Image
For whatever reason, thus far it's been important to me not to write that kind of collection. Which means that I've spent… — Roy Kesey Copy Share Image
My English teachers gave me a copy of Atwood's 'The Handmaid's Tale' when I left high school, which has always been very… — Samantha Shannon Copy Share Image
Even though I read voraciously as a child, I never saw myself in books. Without narratives to expand my ideas of who… — Jesmyn Ward Copy Share Image
“The tales of pure terror, of course, are completely naturalistic in their content, and must stand or fall by their merit alone.… — Herbert A. Wise Copy Share Image
“Above all, readers want useful information, whether from a road sign or an investment guide. This motive is not completely absent even… — Alice W. Flaherty Copy Share Image
![“The best memoirs - like This Boy's Life, or Crazy Brave [by Joy Harjo], for instance - bring you through a private river of storytelling that joins a major ocean of human struggle and joy. The act of enunciation - the forms and strategies of storytelling - are every bit as literarily serious as…” quote by Lidia Yuknavitch](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/c13/lidia-yuknavitch-3991_bits_the-best-memoirs-like-this-boy-s-life-or_936790.png)
![“They're [zombies] us, you can also have the wrestler zombie, the clown zombie, the Jay Leno zombie and the nun zombie. I've never seen the clown werewolf or vampire. But because zombies are us, at the lowest possible level, they're a lot more versatile for storytelling.” quote by Tom Savini](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/485/tom-savini-42011_clown_they-re-zombies-us-you-can-also-have-the_3090520.jpg)
