“No survivors? Then where do the stories come from, I wonder.” — Captain Jack Sparrow Copy Share Image
“Fairy-tales exist and the best proof for this is our own childhood! Yes, childhood is a real fairy tale!” — Mehmet Murat ildan Copy Share Image
Writing a children's book means you cannot spin out long narratives or have complex character development. — Norman Macleod Copy Share Image
“The Leadership Seduction of storytelling invites self-pity, exaggerates one's importance, and encourages inaction.” — Catherine Robinson-Walker Copy Share Image
Like a human rights lawyer who uses the law to rectify wrongs, I use filmic storytelling for the same effect. — Pamela Yates Copy Share Image
What you demand from storytelling is a moral - even political - import. I tend to shun that didactic aspect. — Aleksandar Hemon Copy Share Image
“Words made you laugh and history fell apart into tales and isolated mysteries threatening to be trivial.” — Joseph McElroy Copy Share Image
Myths are wonderful tools that we've had, oh, for eons now that help us navigate the situations we find ourselves in. — Jeff Bridges Copy Share Image
We no longer believe in fairy tales. But we will learn to believe in monsters — Francesca Lia Block Copy Share Image
There are six myths about old age: 1. That it's a disease, a disaster. 2. That we are mindless. 3. That we… — Maggie Kuhn Copy Share Image
“We should not delude ourselves into thinking that our historical narratives, as commonly constructed, are anything more than retrofits.” — Niall Ferguson Copy Share Image
I took lots of photographs and had planned to write a treatise on how it worked, but I quickly got bored with… — Kit Williams Copy Share Image
Storytelling comes naturally to humans, but since we live in an unnatural world, we sometimes need a little help doing what we'd… — Dan Harmon Copy Share Image
Oh, can I really believe the poet's tales, that when one first sees the object of one's love, one imagines one has… — Soren Kierkegaard Copy Share Image
“It feels as honest as the day is crummy that I begin this tale of total desperation and woe with me, my… — James Patterson Copy Share Image
I get very excited by these hoity-toity directors with their bells and whistles, but I find simple storytelling done really well just… — Kathy Burke Copy Share Image
“-Dream up something wild and improbable. Something beautiful and full of monsters. -Beautiful and full of monsters? -All the best stories are.” — Laini Taylor Copy Share Image
“All writers are demonic dreamers. Writing is an act of sharing experiences and offering of an individualistic perspective of our private attitudes… — Kilroy J. Oldster Copy Share Image
While the story about the hunt for bin Laden has been exhaustively reported and the key sources and witnesses are in agreement… — Peter Bergen Copy Share Image
“Mind you, I cannot swear that my story is true. It may have been a dream; or worse, a symptom of some… — Robert Bloch Copy Share Image
“Many more have died of attempting love than victory, and countless numbers hate love more than war. Honor has often been the… — Patricia Storace Copy Share Image
“Our dreams and stories may contain implicit aspects of our lives even without our awareness. In fact, storytelling may be a primary… — Daniel J. Siegel Copy Share Image
I think that, at the end of the day, I'm drawn to a certain level of ambiguous storytelling that requires hard thought… — Damon Lindelof Copy Share Image
If I am a fan of my own music, which I am, I want to hear the best Madchild I can hear.… — Shane Bunting Copy Share Image
I've always had an idealistic streak about storytelling in that I believe we owe more to audiences than repeatedly bludgeoning them over… — Mark Frost Copy Share Image
