People don't like the true and simple; they like fairy tales and humbug. — Edmond de Goncourt Copy Share Image
Fairy tales are my natural language. I feel at ease telling fairy tales like a fish feels in water. I am totally… — Michel Ocelot Copy Share Image
“History is often made and buttressed by myths and folklore rather than facts.” — Daikichi Irokawa Copy Share Image
“Stories don't always have to end happily.. Sometimes it's just enough that they end.” — Terri Cheney Copy Share Image
So maybe it wasn't the fairy tale. But those stories weren't real anyway. Mine were. — Sarah Dessen Copy Share Image
History shows us that the songs - the myth, the experience and the emotion - live longer the less you explain. — Sondre Lerche Copy Share Image
My overall artistic goal is to marry graphic design with comic books and traditional storytelling. — Jonathan Hickman Copy Share Image
I've always hated narrative songs. I hate those songs where, basically, it's an unfolding of a story. — Nick Cave Copy Share Image
I try to naturally keep things to a manageable storytelling length, which is about two hours, so you try to cut out… — Martin McDonagh Copy Share Image
The graduate earnings premium, used by the Tories to justify many of their regressive higher education policies, is fast becoming a myth. — Angela Rayner Copy Share Image
If the day-to-day culture is saying it's OK to not be inclusive or tolerant, that it's OK to be bigoted, then it's… — Julie Plec Copy Share Image
I don't write these stories for the rewards that come back to me. I write them because I have to write them.… — Noah Hawley Copy Share Image
It's worth being suspicious of writers - or anyone! - who does that myth-making thing. There's always a tendency to retrospectively impose… — Guy Gavriel Kay Copy Share Image
'The Merchant of Venice' is a straightforward, clear story, while 'The Winter's Tale,' as a general rule, is hard to present because… — Jesse L. Martin Copy Share Image
Great actors like Willem Dafoe and Ellen Page and Samuel L. Jackson will go and do a videogame, because they understand that… — Andy Serkis Copy Share Image
In the face of events that threaten to overwhelm our lives, storytelling gives us a way of reclaiming ourselves and reaffirming our… — Victoria Alexander Copy Share Image
I wanted to be a writer as a teen... so storytelling was my first love. In my late teens, design became an… — Yves Behar Copy Share Image
Many fantasy novels - 'Lord of the Rings', for instance, or 'Lavondyss' by Robert Holdstock - are beautifully written. Geoff Ryman's 'The… — David Gemmell Copy Share Image
“Martin, fables are possibly one of the most interesting literary forms ever invented. Do you know what they teach us? Moral lessons?… — Carlos Ruiz Zafon Copy Share Image
“A story must be judged according to whether it makes sense . And 'making sense' must be here understood in its most… — David Abram Copy Share Image
“Now a narrative is a story, not logic, nor ethics, nor philosophy. It is a dream you keep having, whether you realize… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
The biggest mistake you can make is assuming that creativity will hit you all at once and the muse will carry you… — Maggie Stiefvater Copy Share Image
“Sarah Hinckley expresses the cry of her media-influenced generation: We have every little inconsequential thing, Nintendo 64s and homepages and cell phones,… — Rick Richardson Copy Share Image
“Ha-ha!' the fox laughed. '*Just* stories, you say, as if stories mean nothing? Stories are the stuff that sticks the world together.… — C. Alexander London Copy Share Image
