I think there is something about a story that is enduring. Stories take on a life of their own. — Max Lucado Copy Share Image
I actually enjoy writing longer books because you have even more to get your storytelling teeth into. — Stephen Cole Copy Share Image
“You are every fairy tale that I dreamed of and the forever after that I never dared to hope for.” — Sydney Landon Copy Share Image
O Reader! had you in your mind Such stores as silent thought can bring, O gentle Reader! you would find A tale… — William Wordsworth Copy Share Image
I have an affinity for a lot of things that are kind of fairy-tale-ish and bookish. — Alison Sudol Copy Share Image
The infectious values and myths transmitted by bad sportswriters may be the deadliest words in the paper. — Robert Lipsyte Copy Share Image
“Your passion as an artist is a magnet that draws you at all times, but if you don’t follow, it will suffocate… — Pawan Mishra Copy Share Image
The mainstream media hears what it wants to hear and has its own narratives. — Stephen F. Cohen Copy Share Image
Humanity's legacy of stories and storytelling is the most precious we have. All wisdom is in our stories and songs. A story… — Doris Lessing Copy Share Image
What gets lost in the textbook is the overall narrative. It gets lost in all the boxes and all the photos and… — James W. Loewen Copy Share Image
Storytelling is ultimately a creative act of pattern recognition. Through characters, plot and setting, a writer creates places where previously invisible truths… — Douglas Coupland Copy Share Image
“During an especially noisy elementary school assembly I witnessed a common marvel. Someone spoke, "Once upon a time..." into the mic, and… — Richelle E. Goodrich Copy Share Image
“And fairy tales are make-believe. They are the stories we tell to small children to make them believe the world is a… — J.L. Vallance Copy Share Image
As cinema is a reflection of the world around us, with more women coming into the mainstream business, more women narratives will… — Zoya Akhtar Copy Share Image
Lots of TV is kind of becoming almost the new form for adult storytelling and cinema, but still with some independent films… — Alicia Vikander Copy Share Image
Then a person has only one tale?” No, some have two or three separate ones or more,” Fleet said. “Some people have… — Chris Wooding Copy Share Image
“We draw our lines around these moments of pain, and remain upon our islands, and they cannot hurt us. They are covered… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
Like every human we have to categorize ourselves, so you kind of start to build a mythos 'cause I had no information… — Keegan-Michael Key Copy Share Image
Horror grows impatient, rhetorically, with the Stoic fatalism of Ecclesiastes. That we are all going to die, that death mocks and cancels… — Michael Chabon Copy Share Image
“In the old stories, despite the impossibility of the incidents, the interest is always real and human. The princes and princesses fall… — Andrew Lang Copy Share Image
“Contemporary writers use animal-transformation themes to explore issues of gender, sexuality, race, culture, and the process of transformation...just as storytellers have done,… — Terri Windling Copy Share Image
I think we're always in the process of writing and rewriting the story of our lives, forming our experiences into a narrative… — Sam Keen Copy Share Image
“The television dramas we grew up on, stories of star-crossed lovers, stories of love overcoming all obstacles, well, they’re all fairy tales,… — Anthony Marra Copy Share Image
“The truth is that, just as in the other imitative arts one imitation is always of one thing, so in poetry the… — Aristotle Copy Share Image