“Fairy tales are best read as entertainment,” Harry said. “Not as a guide to life.” — Lisa Kleypas Copy Share Image
I've always loved news. I've always loved storytelling and being where the scene is. — Abby Huntsman Copy Share Image
Objects let you tell a narrative that encompasses everybody. Texts don't. — Neil MacGregor Copy Share Image
As an author of narrative history, I read a lot of history books. — Nathaniel Philbrick Copy Share Image
“No one wants to sit through a drawn-out tale any more than they want a third nipple” — Andrew Cormier Copy Share Image
In my store, I don't do anything political. There are no signs up, and I'm not pushing anyone. — Rick Harrison Copy Share Image
I'm very interested in how we take ownership of our own stories and our own lives. — Derren Brown Copy Share Image
“We live in our tales of ourselves. . . and ignore as best we can the contradictions, and the lapses, and the… — Gregory Maguire Copy Share Image
Don't despair for story's future or turn curmudgeonly over the rise of video games or reality TV. The way we experience story… — Jonathan Gottschall Copy Share Image
A coalition with Tories and Liberal Democrats together is a golden opportunity to create the sort of planning reform that means not… — Michael Gove Copy Share Image
If I'm writing a radio thing that's narrative, it's quite nice to stop for an hour and write a load of garbage… — Tim Key Copy Share Image
I grew up in a place where everybody was a storyteller, but nobody wrote. It was that kind of Celtic, storytelling tradition:… — Irvine Welsh Copy Share Image
To write a good memoir you must become the editor of your own life, imposing on an untidy sprawl of half-remembered events… — William Zinsser Copy Share Image
Within a scantily plotted, novella-style narrative (the movie is an adaptation of a short story by Tom Bissell), single shots become story… — Karina Longworth Copy Share Image
“Good ink, good parchment, precious time - and all for the sake of a mouse in a glove.” Cian Brydydd Mawr smiled… — Hugh Lupton Copy Share Image
“You have the Elements to write a grand Tale,” Kai said with a sad smile. “But you will not rewrite Story.” He… — Marissa Burt Copy Share Image
“But I have already told the beginning, so right now it's the middle. And Zeb is in the middle of the story… — Margaret Atwood Copy Share Image
“The tragic fear and pity may be aroused by the Spectacle; but they may also be aroused by the very structure and… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
What do you do when the story changes in midlife? When a tale you have told yourself turns out to be a… — Gail Caldwell Copy Share Image
“When I began writing this story, I thought I had some idea of what it was about. I was wrong. In my… — Richard Paul Evans Copy Share Image
“Often I felt that these men were play-acting: the unreality of their role was their security, even their own destinies were to… — Halldór Laxness Copy Share Image
“When telling the story of your life, it is of great value to recognize and focus on the details that reveal or… — Scott Edmund Miller Copy Share Image
“What makes someone mythic is not whether or not he lived, or lived well, but whether or not he was larger than… — Helen Morales Copy Share Image
