We feel a lot of the future of storytelling is going to be in the VR space. — Joe Russo Copy Share Image
I like colorful tales with black beginnings and stormy middles and cloudless blue-sky endings. But any story will do. — Katherine Applegate Copy Share Image
Biblical myth is as integral to the spirit of the South as the heat and humidity. — Jesmyn Ward Copy Share Image
“We write because we need somewhere for the stories in our heads to live.” — Dana George Copy Share Image
“She reminded me that I could write stories,/ could be struck by lightning & live.” — Jen Currin Copy Share Image
We are used to women's narratives being defined through the male perspective. I challenge that as a concept. — Danai Gurira Copy Share Image
The purpose of a storyteller is not to tell you how to think, but to give you questions to think upon. — Brandon Sanderson Copy Share Image
“In a nation whose great informing myth is that it has no great informing myth, familiarity equaled timelessness” — David Foster Wallace Copy Share Image
“I have worked with that ancient, fragmented, and incomplete narrative, with its barbarians, dragons, sunken cities, reeds and memory marks, twin-bladed warrior… — Samuel R. Delany Copy Share Image
When you’re living in the moment, you’re living in the moment; whatever that moment is, that’s your reality. Everything else is a… — Steven Heller Copy Share Image
“Fairy tales were the door to the world of imagination for me as a child, that land I often lived in when… — Regan Walker Copy Share Image
'Tales From Topographic Oceans' is like a woman's padded bra. The cover looks good, but when you peel off the padding, there's… — Rick Wakeman Copy Share Image
The narrative of our lives is a total construct. We get to choose what that is. That is something I've realized as… — Jason Segel Copy Share Image
I think of a myth as a story that helps you explain all the different pieces of your life. In that broad… — Lewis Hyde Copy Share Image
Writers know - especially new writers - [that] a lot of it [creative process] is the prewriting stage, the talking, brainstorming, the… — Jenna Bush Copy Share Image
“And, as with all retold tales that are in people's hearts, there are only good and bad things and black and white… — John Steinbeck Copy Share Image
“Writing a balanced, beautiful novel, where plot and character and setting and pacing and narrative structure and imagery and, above all, story… — Nicola Griffith Copy Share Image
I guess storytelling's always been in my blood. My mom said I was always dressing up and jumping in front of the… — Amber Valletta Copy Share Image
What we men share is the experience of having been raised by women in a culture that stopped our fathers from being… — Frank Pittman Copy Share Image
Children, only animals live entirely in the Here and Now. Only nature knows neither memory nor history. But man - let me… — Graham Swift Copy Share Image
“The heroic quest typically highlights a seemingly average person (think Thomas Anderson before he becomes Neo) who embarks on a perilous undertaking,… — Sol Luckman Copy Share Image
Christian nation mythologists pump themselves up with narratives of American exceptionalism and Christian domination. But sooner or later even their most devoted… — Sarah Posner Copy Share Image
Twain's 'A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court' made me long to wake in an era when my Casio wristwatch would strike… — Anthony Doerr Copy Share Image
“The universal hero myth always refers to a powerful man or god-man who vanquishes evil in the form of drag- ons, serpents,… — C.G. Jung Copy Share Image