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 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
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
“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
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
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
“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
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
“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
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
“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
“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
“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
“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
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
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
“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
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
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
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
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
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
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
“...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
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
“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
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
“Yet a period’s character does affect individual character. Psychology, the study of what happens in our minds, is tightly interwoven with culture,… — Joshua Wolf Shenk Copy Share Image
There's a lot of two-hander dialogue in 'True Detective,' and I needed to place those guys in locations where there were other… — Cary Fukunaga Copy Share Image
A part of what makes myths live is their multiplicity, the way different voices retell them in every generation. Homer survives because… — Madeline Miller Copy Share Image
