We breathe, we think, we conceive of our lives as narratives. — Christopher Lehmann-Haupt Copy Share Image
Be careful, boy. In some tales, the hero gets eaten by the monster after all . — Julie Kagawa Copy Share Image
If you’re too rigid in your thinking you may miss some wonderful opportunities for storytelling. — Vince Gilligan Copy Share Image
“Think like magician, present like magician and perform like magician.” — Amit Kalantri Copy Share Image
All great literary works influence us as writers, not their stories as much as their storytelling ability. — Michael Scott Copy Share Image
My mother used 'Cinderella' as the antidote of what was in store for me. — Catherine Oxenberg Copy Share Image
“Would you believe in a story without the heroes? There are stories without heroes.” — Pushpa Rana Copy Share Image
His heart danced upon her movements like a cork upon a tide. He heard what her eyes said to him from beneath… — James Joyce Copy Share Image
This was not a fearie tale. This was not the movies. This was life. It hurt more. It was excruciating. It was… — Francesca Lia Block Copy Share Image
Storytelling comes naturally to humans, but since we live in an unnatural world, we sometimes need a little help doing what we'd… — Dan Harmon Copy Share Image
Oh, can I really believe the poet's tales, that when one first sees the object of one's love, one imagines one has… — Soren Kierkegaard Copy Share Image
“It feels as honest as the day is crummy that I begin this tale of total desperation and woe with me, my… — James Patterson Copy Share Image
I get very excited by these hoity-toity directors with their bells and whistles, but I find simple storytelling done really well just… — Kathy Burke Copy Share Image
“We should not delude ourselves into thinking that our historical narratives, as commonly constructed, are anything more than retrofits.” — Niall Ferguson Copy Share Image
I took lots of photographs and had planned to write a treatise on how it worked, but I quickly got bored with… — Kit Williams Copy Share Image
“There's a Palestine that dwells inside all of us, a Palestine that needs to be rescued: a free Palestine where all people… — Refaat Alareer Copy Share Image
Operating-room errors hold a special terror for patients, if only because they seem like the most avoidable kind of complications. The occasional… — Jeffrey Kluger Copy Share Image
This variety of objects will suspend, for some time, the course of the narrative; but the interruption will be censured only by… — Edward Gibbon Copy Share Image
“Each of us lives with a sword over his head. There are those who can ignore its shadow and those who cannot.… — Murray Kempton Copy Share Image
That's what we do, man, we're like storytellers. We tell you stories from the streets. Whether we did it before when we… — Kurupt Copy Share Image
“A child, left to play alone, says of quite an easy thing, 'Now I am going to to do something very difficult'.… — Cyril Connolly Copy Share Image
Glen Hirshberg's stories are haunting, absolutely, but not only because of the content -- the stories themselves haunt, they stick around, they… — Aimee Bender Copy Share Image
It may be said that myths give to the transcendent reality an immanent, this-worldly objectivity. Myths speak about gods and demons as… — Rudolf Bultmann Copy Share Image
