“the deepest function of myth, which is to lend narrative order to apparently disconnected bits of information,” — Christopher Ryan Copy Share Image
[Fairy tales] make rivers run with wine only to make us remember, for one wild moment, that they run with water. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I want to be the best mum and I want everything to be perfect - I want a fairy tale really. — Jennifer Ellison Copy Share Image
It's really important for me to have a record which has a strong narrative feel to it. — Jon Hopkins Copy Share Image
I'm fond of implied narratives, oblique angles, and leaving a little room for the viewer to finish a picture. — Keith Carter Copy Share Image
My job as a film editor is to construct a dramatic narrative because otherwise it's just a chaotic arrangement of sequences. — Frederick Wiseman Copy Share Image
I need people - theatrics and schmoozing and storytelling are part of my talent. — Joel Salatin Copy Share Image
“Laugh and cry and tell stories. Sad stories about bodies stolen, bodies no longer here. Enraging stories about the false images, devastating… — Eli Clare Copy Share Image
“It is a precisely datable historical event having the full weight that real historical happenings have; like them, too, it happens once… — Pope Benedict XVI Copy Share Image
“So that’s why I’m such a big fan of storytelling. I think the most important thing is empathy. And it’s less about… — Jeanette Walls Copy Share Image
I have always admired the Russian cinema, their incisive storytelling, sharp camera work and brilliant acting in them. Indian filmmakers can learn… — Victor Banerjee Copy Share Image
The funny thing is that in Bosnia there are no words that are equivalent to fiction and nonfiction. From the storytelling point… — Aleksandar Hemon Copy Share Image
Even though L.A Confidential box-office was a fraction of, say, Titanic or the Grinch movie, it finds its audience and will continue… — Curtis Hanson Copy Share Image
Narrative becomes the way you make sense of chaos. That's how you focus the world. It's the only reason you should ever… — Dennis Lehane Copy Share Image
The sheer scale of what the Tories are attempting to do is staggering. But Sinn Fein will not agree to this ideologically… — Martin McGuinness Copy Share Image
“for simplicity’s sake, let us assume I am the center of creation. In doing this, let us pass over innumerable boring stories:… — Patrick Rothfuss Copy Share Image
Living "in" a story, being part of a narrative, is much more satisfying than living without one. I don't always know what… — David Byrne Copy Share Image
“A shaman and a writer each serve as their communities’ seers by engaging in extraordinary acts of conscientious study of the past… — Kilroy J. Oldster Copy Share Image
One may call the world a myth , in which bodies and things are visible, but souls and minds hidden. Besides, to… — Sallust Copy Share Image
“...the video-game form is incompatible with traditional concepts of narrative progression. Stories are about time passing and narrative progression. Games are about… — Tom Bissell Copy Share Image
“After a childhood reading fairy tales and myths, is it any wonder that when I began to write my own stories I… — Elizabeth Hoyt Copy Share Image
“As it unfolded, the structure of the story began to remind me of one of those Russian dolls that contain innumerable diminishing… — Carlos Ruiz Zafón Copy Share Image
Folklore, legends, myths and fairy tales have followed childhood through the ages, for every healthy youngster has a wholesome and instinctive love… — L. Frank Baum Copy Share Image
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