Nothing ever begins. There is no first moment; no single word or place from which this or any story springs. The threads… — Clive Barker Copy Share Image
“It made a romantic tale. The young rouge, cheating death, returning to his grieving lover. But in reality? Ashyn had always known… — Kelly Armstrong Copy Share Image
Orson Welles was a force of nature, who just came in and wiped the slate clean. And Citizen Kane is the greatest… — Martin Scorsese Copy Share Image
I didn't corner the market on great stories. I'm not the only one who can do something like work at a grocery… — Kurt Warner Copy Share Image
“Myth basically serves four functions. The first is the mystical function,... realizing what a wonder the universe is, and what a wonder… — Joseph Campbell Copy Share Image
“What, you thought that one story was somehow more real than all the others, just because it’s the one that has the… — Seanan McGuire Copy Share Image
“This consideration takes us very close to what it is that makes Greek tragedy “tragic.” A play about an unambiguously heroic young… — Daniel Mendelsohn Copy Share Image
“Mythology can be defined as the sacred history of humankind. This is different from what we call "history." Mythical stories, when you… — Gerald Hausman Copy Share Image
“Fairy tales, fantasy, legend and myth...these stories, and their topics, and the symbolism and interpretation of those topics...these things have always held… — Helen Pilinovsky Copy Share Image
“even nursery tales only echo an almost pre-natal leap of interest and amazement. These tales say that apples were golden only to… — G.K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
“But if we are to grasp the full value of the materials, we must note that myths are not exactly comparable to… — Joseph Campbell Copy Share Image
This is the Ben Crump model: He goes into a city, creates a narrative, cherry picks facts to establish, to prove that… — Daniel Cameron Copy Share Image
“All that's needed now is a great novel that will capture the imagination of the public - move them, enrage them, thrill… — Michael Farber Copy Share Image
I just thought someone has to figure out how to break through that barrier and create a narrative for a black super… — Kerry James Marshall Copy Share Image
“And if I'm guilty of having gratuitous sex, then I'm also guilty of having gratuitous violence, and gratuitous feasting, and gratuitous description… — George R. R. Martin Copy Share Image
“Narratives are the primary way in which we make sense of our lives, as opposed to, for example schema,cognition, beliefs, constructs. Definition… — Jacqui Stedmon Copy Share Image
There is a myth that writers get to choose their stories. You don't get to choose your story any more than you… — Alexandra Fuller Copy Share Image
The way that people are watching TV is changing. The landscape of television is changing. Movies are becoming much more insular. They're… — Seth Gabel Copy Share Image
I think that storytelling, at its essence, allows us to feel like we all suffer the same insanity or a similar insanity… — David Harbour Copy Share Image
The very act of writing assumes, to begin with, that someone cares to hear what you have to say. It assumes that… — Tobias Wolff Copy Share Image
Donald Trump, having spent decades in the public eye as an entertainer, may not understand what the nuclear triad is, or what… — Kristen Soltis Anderson Copy Share Image
“I’m surprised a person with your experience in telling elaborate fables should have difficulty in thinking up such a simple tale, but… — Karen Hawkins Copy Share Image
Disney is a huge presence when it comes to fairy tales because he’s made of them such brilliant artifacts in terms of… — Philip Pullman Copy Share Image
I think every person either inherits or eventually makes up their own idea of what they are and who they are and… — Marvin Minsky Copy Share Image
My love of storytelling comes from oral tradition, the stories from my grandmother and conversations with [my] mother. The world is full… — Lucrecia Martel Copy Share Image
Faithfulness to the truth of history involves far more than a research, however patient and scrupulous, into special facts. Such facts may… — Francis Parkman Copy Share Image
I think comedy allows people to accept the more difficult parts of history. And history, if it's presented wrong, is just very… — James McBride Copy Share Image
Apart from a couple that were just having fun with the concept and making fun of [Donald] Trump - like the one… — Joss Whedon Copy Share Image
Much as my Boomer friends will hate me for saying this, Kanye West is the New Dylan. Not only do Kanye's best… — Dan Hill Copy Share Image
“Breitbart’s genius was that he grasped better than anyone else what the early twentieth-century press barons understood—that most readers don’t approach the… — Joshua Green Copy Share Image
Within the field of a secular society, which is a sort of neutral frame that allows individuals to develop their own lives,… — Joseph Campbell Copy Share Image
Dream is personalized myth, myth is depersonalized dream; both myth and dream are symbolic in the same general way of the dynamics… — Joseph Campbell Copy Share Image
I'm seeing more and more interesting horror come my way. More and more interesting thrillers and genre films are coming my way… — Karyn Kusama Copy Share Image
I enjoy a third act, and I like stories with ending. A lot of my frustration with serialized storytelling is a lot… — Nic Pizzolatto Copy Share Image
“He fills my head with tales from the ancient forests, tales so old that the trees themselves call them legends. It is… — Maryrose Wood Copy Share Image
There is really no fiction or non-fiction; there is only narrative. One mode of perception has no greater claim on the truth… — E. L. Doctorow Copy Share Image
The myth of Canada, its hidden story, is of a contemplative country, a place of inwardness, where people can question the idea… — B. W. Powe Copy Share Image
“A story with a single ending seems to us a bare and diminished thing, like a tree with a single branch; and… — Steven Millhauser Copy Share Image
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