I do not know who first invented the myth of sexual equality. But it is a myth willfully fostered and nourished by… — Phyllis McGinley Copy Share Image
“[Fables] teach us that human beings learn and absorb ideas and concepts through narrative, through stories, not through lessons or theoretical speeches.… — Carlos Ruiz Zafón Copy Share Image
Storytelling is a very old human skill that gives us an evolutionary advantage. If you can tell young people how you kill… — Margaret Atwood Copy Share Image
“Reading these tales is like looking at a photograph of a child whom you only knew as an adult. In her eyes… — Octavia E. Butler Copy Share Image
“Even as the brain is dying, it refuses to stop generating a narrative, the scaffolding upon which it weaves cause and effect,… — David McRaney Copy Share Image
At most, recognizing that our history was inspired by many tales we now recognize as false should make us alert, ready to… — Umberto Eco Copy Share Image
I want to photograph what I see and put it in a dramatic context. I'm an actor and a writer, and I… — Tommy Lee Jones Copy Share Image
“For the narrative to exist, so that it could be read and reread even if I was taken away. Stories outlive their… — Jodi Picoult Copy Share Image
“The fairy tale is not the conclusion, but the doorway to a more brilliant reality. Pushed onto a pedestal as the final… — Natalie Nyquist Copy Share Image
The Hawley Book of the Dead had me completely spellbound from beginning to end. A storytelling virtuosa, Chrysler Szarlan has woven a… — Anne Fortier Copy Share Image
“It was all the answer Rook needed. He plunged his hand into the soil, long fingers grasping down. This was no offering… — Margaret Rogerson Copy Share Image
“Later, when his desires had been satisfied, he slept in an odorous whorehouse, snoring lustily next to an insomniac tart, and dreamed.… — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image
I grew up as a fifth-generation Jew in the American South, at the confluence of two great storytelling traditions. After graduating from… — Bruce Feiler Copy Share Image
“The driver watched the young female figure approach within his rearview mirror, unable to discern more than superficial characteristics. As she grew… — R.J. Lawrence Copy Share Image
“As one of the most pervasive forms of cultural narrative in industrialized societies, commercial film serves as an extremely powerful vehicle of… — Rosemary Hennessy Copy Share Image
I've tended to find that myths of the near future give people the ability to really kind of explore the present, so… — DJ Spooky Copy Share Image
I'm not interested in gothic storytelling or the horrific for its own sake. I'm always interested in it as a way of… — Scott Derrickson Copy Share Image
“We’re all “storytellers.” We don’t call ourselves storytellers, but it’s what we do every day. Although we’ve been sharing stories for thousands… — Carmine Gallo Copy Share Image
I had a mind to make a body of more or less connected legend, ranging from the large and cosmogonic, to the… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“Then there is the other secret. There isn't any symbolysm [sic]. The sea is the sea. The old man is an old… — Ernest Hemingway Copy Share Image
“All narrative begins for me as listening. When I read, I listen. When I write, I listen—for silence, inflection, rhythm, rest. Then… — Toni Morrison Copy Share Image
Writing, to me, is like kayaking a river. You are paddling down, and you come to a walled-off canyon, and you make… — Peter Heller Copy Share Image
“The Rough Beast snorted. “You don’t get it at all, buddy. It’s not about wrestling. It’s about stories. We’re storytellers.” Caperton studied… — Sam Lipsyte Copy Share Image
I went to a seminar early in my career on the craft of storytelling by Robert McKee. It was really life altering.… — Jane Jensen Copy Share Image
...what I enjoy in a narrative is not directly its content or even its structure, but rather the abrasions I impose upon… — Roland Barthes Copy Share Image
Folk-lore means that the soul is sane, but that the universe is wild and full of marvels. Realism means that the world… — Gilbert K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
Characters work really well when they're reflective of the times that they're operating in. To keep these characters static - like Superman… — Brian Azzarello Copy Share Image
“I read Greek myths. I read about far off places, Venice and Paris. I read about men who searched for things they… — Alice Hoffman Copy Share Image
One of the reasons why I think virtual reality, as a narrative format, is never going to go beyond the short-form immersion… — Steven Soderbergh Copy Share Image
“I had the view of a castle of romance inhabited by a rosy spirit, such a place as would somehow, for diversion… — Henry James Copy Share Image
I've always been interested in medicine and was pleased when my brother became a doctor. But after thinking seriously about that field,… — Lois Lowry Copy Share Image
“For as long as she can remember, telling stories has been her momma's gift to those around her, fables filled with rich,… — Sara Stark Copy Share Image
“Family myths are cherished by the people who--however unwittingly--have brought them into being. In my own situation, what my father was really… — Mark Sichel Copy Share Image
'Orphan Black' allows for people to have debates and theories and allegiances to different characters - to trust characters and hate other… — Tatiana Maslany Copy Share Image
Myths, as compared with folk tales, are usually in a special category of seriousness: they are believed to have "really happened,"or to… — Northrop Frye Copy Share Image
While the storytelling in games is getting so much better, you look at something like Grand Theft Auto V, which I thought… — David Hayter Copy Share Image
“We hold these stories and mad idea and events in our head and they run around and around telling us we are… — Maureen Muldoon Copy Share Image
At its best, fantasy rewards the reader with a sense of wonder about what lies within the heart of the commonplace world.… — Patricia A. McKillip Copy Share Image
We didn't have any books at home. Not even children's books or fairy tales. The only 'fantastic' stories came from religion class.… — Herta Muller Copy Share Image
One of my heroes, G.K. Chesterton, said, "The old fairy tales endure forever. The old fairy tale makes the hero a normal… — Regina Doman Copy Share Image
![“[Fables] teach us that human beings learn and absorb ideas and concepts through narrative, through stories, not through lessons or theoretical speeches. This is what any of the religious texts teach us. They're all tales about characters who must confront life and overcome obstacles, figures…” quote by Carlos Ruiz Zafón](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/22c/carlos-ruiz-zafon-126_books_fables-teach-us-that-human-beings-learn_764106.jpg)
![“Then there is the other secret. There isn't any symbolysm [sic]. The sea is the sea. The old man is an old man. The boy is a boy and the fish is a fish. The shark are all sharks no better and no worse. All the symbolism that people say is shit. What goes beyond is what you see beyond when you know.” quote by Ernest Hemingway](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/33d/ernest-hemingway-83_old-man_then-there-is-the-other-secret-there-isn_2113368.jpg)
