“Everyone's life is a fairy tale writen by God's fingers” — llHans Christian Anderson Copy Share Image
The thing is about 'Vida,' we're telling a very simple family narrative. There's nothing fancy about it. — Tanya Saracho Copy Share Image
No matter how stark the reality, a human being fits it into a narrative that is palatable. — Joshua Prager Copy Share Image
I don't want my readers slowed down by long passages of narrative. — Janet Evanovich Copy Share Image
When you're going with a huge dramatic disaster film, try to keep the narrative as simple as possible. — Jeremy Bolt Copy Share Image
“If you tell stories, you like nothing so much as to tell them to people who want to listen.” — Frances Hodgson Burnett Copy Share Image
I acquired a hunger for fairy tales in the dark days of blackout and blitz in the Second World War. — A. S. Byatt Copy Share Image
“The same principles that make up a good story also make up a good life.” — Donald Miller Copy Share Image
“The power of your story may not lie in its drama, but in its absolutely perfect relationship to your cause.” — John Capecci and Timothy Cage Copy Share Image
“I wanted to tell her that I was getting better, because that was supposed to be the narrative of illness: It was… — John Green Copy Share Image
It's great to work in film and TV, and I love it, but there's nothing that can replace that instantaneous storytelling you… — Pablo Schreiber Copy Share Image
“Too bad for the storytellers. Too bad for the sense makers, the apologists, that nothing, then or ever, nothing was inevitable. It's… — Jincy Willett Copy Share Image
The Italian prose tale had begun to exercise that influence as early as Chaucer's time: but circumstances and atmosphere were as yet… — George Saintsbury Copy Share Image
“Beyond the picket fences and the oil wells, the happy endings, and the fairy tales, is the reality of shattered lives and… — Tim McGraw Copy Share Image
For me, all fiction is about prizing the logic of metaphors - which is the logic of narratives in general - over… — Ken Liu Copy Share Image
“For a once renowned woman who loved telling tales of dodging bullets, wielding grenades and subverting dogs trained to kill, Christine's story… — Clare Mulley Copy Share Image
The more intelligent the storytelling becomes and the deeper the character development, people will realize in film and television, like they do… — Robert LaSardo Copy Share Image
“During the second half of the twentieth century, cross-fertilization among the disciplines of history, literature, sociology, and psychology led to scholarly awareness… — Miranda Wilcox Copy Share Image
There was a gap in minority heroes in animation, books, and storytelling for me as a kid, and being a father now,… — Baron Davis Copy Share Image
“[Northrop] Frye was concerned mostly with literary criticism, and myths interested him as structural elements in works of literature. He used the… — Margaret Atwood Copy Share Image
A myth is a way of making sense in a senseless world. Myths are narrative patterns that give significance to our existence.… — Rollo May Copy Share Image
Myth was regarded as primary; it was concerned with what was thought to be timeless and constant in our existence. Myth looked… — Karen Armstrong Copy Share Image
It's very difficult to understand, but I'm looking for a nonnarrative, multiscreen, present-tense cinema. Narrative is an artifact created by us. It… — Peter Greenaway Copy Share Image
“The 3 types of terror: The Gross-out: the sight of a severed head tumbling down a flight of stairs, it's when the… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
Just getting totally absorbed in that and therefore when I came back around to [Buckminster Fuller] and found that much of it… — Jonathon Keats Copy Share Image
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