Had they [the Tories] been in the wilderness they would have complained of the Ten Commandments. Remark. — John Bright Copy Share Image
“One doesn't intentionally to alter the truth, just enhance it and make it more memorable.” — John Alexander Copy Share Image
The writer's function is to prevent myths turning into allegories. — Michel Tournier Copy Share Image
Storytelling excites me. Nothing gets me more juiced up than having an impact on people. — Alrick Brown Copy Share Image
My dad did a wonderful feat of memory and storytelling by taking T S Eliot's 'Four Quartets' on the road in a… — Freddie Fox Copy Share Image
“(...) every story one chooses to tell is a kind of censorship, it prevents the telling of other tales (...)” — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image
“To Aiden & Ashley So that you will grow up loving fairy tales like I did.” — Chanda Hahn Copy Share Image
“A beautiful tale is pleasantly interesting, but a tale re-told is not only sweeter but lacks the bitter truth.” — Uzoma Nnadi Copy Share Image
“...just because one can guess the nature of a tale doesn't make it any less worth the telling. One might even find… — Sam Westhoek Copy Share Image
Some of the storytelling we did in 'Battlestar Galactica,' to graft that onto 'Star Trek,' it would have required changing the entire… — Ronald D. Moore Copy Share Image
“We can be so heavily invested in our tales of sorrow and woe that we have no clue how much repeating that… — Catherine Carrigan Copy Share Image
I've been very passionate about storytelling ever since I was a kid. I really don't remember a time when I didn't want… — Inbar Lavi Copy Share Image
In documentaries, there's a truth that unfolds unnaturally, and you get to chronicle it. In narratives, you have to create the situations… — Ava DuVernay Copy Share Image
I come from a filmmaking tradition and a storytelling background. So somehow I've emerged like a mutant who can straddle both worlds. — Alex Gibney Copy Share Image
I don't read many popular histories like the ones I write. The building blocks for my research are scholarly monographs, and the… — Rick Perlstein Copy Share Image
I used to do a lot of story writing and storytelling coming up through grade school. By the time I got to… — Rhea Seehorn Copy Share Image
This is not the way these tales end," Calliope said firmly. "This is not the way that things end when they get… — John Barnes Copy Share Image
“The next time you feel yourself giving in to the sometimes overwhelming urge to panic about the fate of literature in the… — Adam Hammond Copy Share Image
“The woman who presents herself to the spectator as a 'picture' forever arranged, is, for the contemplative mind, the chiefest danger. Sometimes… — Djuna Barnes Copy Share Image
Such is life, my fellow-mummers-just like a poor player that bluffs and feints his hour upon the stage, and then cheapens down… — Joseph Furphy Copy Share Image
“When my father was a young man, during the years of the First World War and long before there was any inkling… — J.R.R. Tolkien Copy Share Image
“The object of storytelling, like the object of magic, is not to explain or to resolve, but rather to create and to… — Tim O'Brien Copy Share Image
What we, or at any rate what I, refer to confidently as memory--meaning a moment, a scene, a fact that has been… — William Maxwell Copy Share Image
“July 1905 issue of McClure’s Magazine was titled “Ohio: A Tale of Two Cities.” He pointed out the corruption in Cincinnati and… — R. Scott Williams Copy Share Image