Obsessed by a fairy tale, we spend our lives searching for a magic door and a lost kingdom of peace. — Eugene O'Neill Copy Share Image
I think people should read fairy tales, because we're hungry for a mythology that will speak to our fears. — Sandra Cisneros Copy Share Image
“Children played at those stories; they dreamed about them. They took them to heart and acted as if to live inside them.” — Gregory Maguire Copy Share Image
I mean, television has really changed a lot, and changed the way movie people think about working in the storytelling business. — Anna Boden Copy Share Image
I have that thing in my stomach where I just need to keep striving for things. In my mind, I want the… — January Jones Copy Share Image
We read the weird tales in newspapers to crowd out the even weirder stuff inside us. — Alain de Botton Copy Share Image
One of the things that will keep The Front Page burning bright as long as newspapers are alive is the myth that… — Jay Carr Copy Share Image
“We need creative license with the fictional narratives that become our memories. Anthologized, these are the tales that become the story of… — Danielle Ganek Copy Share Image
My very first lessons in the art of telling stories took place in the kitchen . . . my mother and three… — Paule Marshall Copy Share Image
The Gods and Goddesses of myth, legend and fairy tale represent archetypes, real potencies and potentialities deep within the psyche, which, when… — Margot Adler Copy Share Image
The hero, whether god or goddess, man or woman, the figure in a myth or the dreamer of a dream discovers and… — Joseph Campbell Copy Share Image
rummaging in the storehouses of religious or literary history for myth-matter for ideational uses is of the nature of spiritual vulgarity. — Laura Riding Copy Share Image
I actually thank God for television... it's not technology, it's storytelling. Technology is saying, 'Do less, do less, do less.' And I… — Michaela Coel Copy Share Image
I am thoroughly tired of the fable style of narrative and shall do my best to get up something entirely different and… — George Ade Copy Share Image
When we make films - even 2D films - you're always trying to create this illusion of 3D, anyway. You're trying to… — Rob Minkoff Copy Share Image
“The stories in books hate the stories in newspapers, David's mother would say. Newspaper stories were like newly caught fish, worthy of… — John Connolly Copy Share Image
Digression is my passion. I'm not kidding. I love telling the main stories, but in some ways, what I love most is… — Erik Larson Copy Share Image
I've always loved theatre because it's so immediate. The challenge of it is that, career wise, it's easier to get traction in… — Steven C. Harper Copy Share Image
The thing that's really cool for me about Miami Beach is you have this dichotomy between sunlight and family and happiness and… — Mitch Glazer Copy Share Image
It is a skill we learn early, the art of inventing stories to explain away the fearful scared strangeness of the world.… — William Kittredge Copy Share Image
A need to tell and hear stories is essential to the species Homo sapiens-second in necessity apparently after nourishment and before love… — Reynolds Price Copy Share Image
We all have incredible relationships to what we eat, to what we don't eat, to what we've eaten since childhood and what… — Samin Nosrat Copy Share Image