“No lies, I thought, but lots of stories. True stories. True lies. Powerful stories, heroic tales, and cautionary fables.” — Dorothy Allison Copy Share Image
I can shake off everything as I write; my sorrows disappear, my courage is reborn. — Anne Frank Copy Share Image
“Remember, when we're lost in a story, we're not passively reading about something that's happening to someone else.” — Lisa Cron Copy Share Image
“...a true narrative like time and tide must run its course and would respect no man.” — Thomas Hardy Copy Share Image
Take chances when you're young so that you can tell stories when you're old. — Mhaj Porras Copy Share Image
Man gave us laws, and God gave us time, It's the art of storytelling and I'm only telling mine. — ASAP Rocky Copy Share Image
“it becomes a problem when we mistake the stories in our minds for The Truth.” — Martha N. Beck Copy Share Image
“A myth... is a metaphor for a mystery beyond human comprehension... A myth, in this way of thinking, is not an untruth… — Brian Godawa Copy Share Image
I'm not a go-out-with-a-band artist. I'm an intimate, storytelling folk artist. It guides the writing and makes for a concert that I'm… — Shawn Colvin Copy Share Image
Storytelling helps us understand each other, translate the issues of our times, and the tools of theater and film can be powerful… — Kevin Spacey Copy Share Image
The forest has always been a place, in fairy tales and in Shakespeare, where you go and discover who you are. You… — David Farr Copy Share Image
“What happens when you don't know the truth but you can't believe the lies, when you can't find a way--through fact or… — Maria Goodin Copy Share Image
No myth dies harder, and none is more regularly debunked by the facts, than the one about international sports contributing to international… — Alistair Cooke Copy Share Image
Woodrell's storytelling is as melodic, jangly and energetic as a good banjo riff… Sammy Barlach's story is a tragedy, but the telling… — Valerie Sayers Copy Share Image
Storytelling is as old as speech. It existed before humans first began to carve shapes in stones and press their hands upon… — Kate Forsyth Copy Share Image
“Novel is a particular form of narrative./ And narrative is a phenomenon which extends considerably beyond the scope of literature; it is… — Michel Butor Copy Share Image
Believing that navel-gazing in and of itself can transform itself into something that means something for society. I mean, we are communicative… — Kehinde Wiley Copy Share Image
“If you remember the pleasure of hearing a story many times, and you will remember that while you were listening you become… — Marina Warner Copy Share Image
“Writes Native American storyteller Ray Buckley: A child relates storytelling . . . to human contact, and that contact becomes as much… — Sarah Arthur Copy Share Image
... the world can give you these glimpses as well as fairy tales can--the smell of rain, the dazzle of sun on… — Frederick Buechner Copy Share Image
It helps to regard soul as an active intelligence, forming and plotting each person's fate. Translators use "plot" to render the ancient… — James Hillman Copy Share Image
“I’m mesmerized by lipstick prints on coffee cups. By the lines of lips against white pottery. By the color chosen by the… — Jeanette LeBlanc Copy Share Image
“There it is; the light across the water. Your story. Mine. His. It has to be seen to be believed. And it… — Jeanette Winterson Copy Share Image
Whether this tale be true or false, none can tell, for none were there to witness it themselves. — Marjane Satrapi Copy Share Image
Once in a while, right in the middle of an ordinary life, love gives us a fairy tale. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
There are some truths to some of the stories, but a lot of it isn't - you just have got to let… — Charlotte Church Copy Share Image
I want to be in a good movie, and so the narrative is way more important. — Charlize Theron Copy Share Image
I didn't like fairy tales when I was younger. I found a lot of fairy tales scary. They really didn't sit well… — Amanda Seyfried Copy Share Image
It was unpredictable, good storytelling that brought you back each week. — Ted Shackelford Copy Share Image
“I'm finally coming to terms with the unalloyed insanity of being a writer. Now that's coming out.” — A.K. Kuykendall Copy Share Image
I'm always interested in storytelling and whatever form that comes in. — Seth Numrich Copy Share Image
I do not want to see, for any reason, the Tories resurgent in any way. — Nicola Sturgeon Copy Share Image
As is a tale, so is life: not how long it is, but how good it is, is what matters. — Lucius Annaeus Seneca Copy Share Image
“Our selves are are rough and unrehearsed tales we tell the world.” — William Alexander Copy Share Image
“Sometimes we tell our stories and sometimes our stories tell us.” — Patti Callahan Henry Copy Share Image
The hardest part about storytelling is knowing what happens in the end. — Tye Sheridan Copy Share Image
I have a great amount of respect for the audience. They know narrative construct. They know all the tropes. — Paul Scheuring Copy Share Image
The Tories are now the party of rural areas and Labour essentially is in the big cities — Vince Cable Copy Share Image
