If you have distance from the events, then your story can work as an analogy or parable rather than its literal narrative. — Peter Morgan Copy Share Image
All that I hope to say in books, all that I ever hope to say, is that I love the world. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
We love a tale of heroes and villains and conflicts requiring a neat resolution. — Barry Ritholtz Copy Share Image
Each generation wants their own form of entertainment and their own form of storytelling. — Nancy Dubuc Copy Share Image
Monsters are a storytelling tool, like domestic realism and close third. — Colson Whitehead Copy Share Image
Narrative identity takes part in the story's movement, in the dialectic between order and disorder — Paul Ricoeur Copy Share Image
“If we were all as wise as we should be, we would have no stories to tell” — Freeman Wills Croft Copy Share Image
Myths are wonderful - they really tell the stories that connect all of us and teach us so much. — Jeff Bridges Copy Share Image
It's probably why I'm a short story writer. I tend to remember things in the past in narrative form, in story form,… — Tobias Wolff Copy Share Image
All lives are tales. Some spread, and grow in the telling. Others are just told between us and the gods, muttered back… — Mark Lawrence Copy Share Image
Many, whose hearts are conquered by acute spite, roll out balanced tales from their own heart, which do not balance when you… — Lucius Accius Copy Share Image
“Dirty mugs crowded a side table, the recycling bin was overflowing, and stacks of letters stood unopened. It all told a tale… — Jane Harper Copy Share Image
You need contrast and conflict in order to tell a story. Stories need to have dark and light, turmoil, all those things.… — David Lynch Copy Share Image
We need myths to get by. We need story; otherwise the tremendous randomness of experience overwhelms us. Story is what penetrates. — Robert Coover Copy Share Image
(I am) dealing not with the particular anecdote, but rather with the Spirit of Myth, which is generic to all myths at… — Mark Rothko Copy Share Image
Nothing is too long or too short either if you have a true and interesting tale and what I call a "graphic"… — Charles Portis Copy Share Image
“I had a mother who read to me Sagas of pirates who scoured the sea. Cutlasses clenched in their yellow teeth; "Blackbirds"… — Strickland Gillilan Copy Share Image
“Storytelling, you know, has a real function. The process of the storytelling is itself a healing process, partly because you have someone… — Alice Walker Copy Share Image
“So they went out for a walk. They went through narrow, lightless lanes, where houses that were silent but gave out smells… — Amit Chaudhuri Copy Share Image
I'm not a fan of Dr. Seuss's better-known work, but his fables leave me awe-struck. 'Ten Tall Tales' is a collection of… — Giles Andreae Copy Share Image
“Too often we sit back and speak platitudes of the nitty-gritty bits of writing; the editing, the story structure, the verbal sparring… — Rachel Heffington Copy Share Image
We still like to make up stories, just as our ancestors did, which use personification to explain the great forces of our… — John Frederick Nims Copy Share Image
“My generation grew up with an imposed myth: the myth of happily ever after -- (and makes you do the same). Whether… — Erica Jong Copy Share Image
William Shakespeare was the most remarkable storyteller that the world has ever known. Homer told of adventure and men at war, Sophocles… — Marchette Chute Copy Share Image
