“The power of your story may not lie in its drama, but in its absolutely perfect relationship to your cause.” — John Capecci and Timothy Cage Copy Share Image
“The same principles that make up a good story also make up a good life.” — Donald Miller Copy Share Image
I remember when I was like 9, 10, 11 going into stores and saying, 'Wow! I wish I had this.' — Skai Jackson Copy Share Image
The thing is about 'Vida,' we're telling a very simple family narrative. There's nothing fancy about it. — Tanya Saracho Copy Share Image
No matter how stark the reality, a human being fits it into a narrative that is palatable. — Joshua Prager Copy Share Image
I don't want my readers slowed down by long passages of narrative. — Janet Evanovich Copy Share Image
When you're going with a huge dramatic disaster film, try to keep the narrative as simple as possible. — Jeremy Bolt Copy Share Image
“If you tell stories, you like nothing so much as to tell them to people who want to listen.” — Frances Hodgson Burnett Copy Share Image
“We had been locked lives. Neither life would dare confront us nor tales could be turned into hard facts. We were not… — T. Afsin Ilgar Copy Share Image
“Winter is the time for stories, staying fast by the glow of fire. And outside, in the darkness, the stars are brighter… — Isabel Greenberg Copy Share Image
Write the kind of story you would like to read. People will give you all sorts of advice about writing, but if… — Meg Cabot Copy Share Image
Free-form games in which the player can make choices about what the game is going to be, become a kind of gaming… — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image
For me, a story's a story if people want to hear it; it's very much based on oral storytelling. And for me,… — Sandra Cisneros Copy Share Image
“we all had our own reasons to hate the narrative, but that didn’t necessarily mean we had an overwhelming love for humanity.… — Seanan McGuire Copy Share Image
Sci-fi has just become an effects-fest, and the story has taken a back seat to all that eye candy. To me, that's… — Daniel Myrick Copy Share Image
A generic vampire tale in the Underworld vein that comes closer to the infamous Van Helsing than a memorable re-interpretation of a… — James Berardinelli Copy Share Image
“At critical moments in the life of individuals and of societies, it is not necessarily the facts that are needed as much… — Michael Meade Copy Share Image
“Some have ideas. You know how old chickens scratch and gabble. That's how the tales started, all the gossip, the wondering, all… — Louise Erdrich Copy Share Image
I would say I was challenging the system quite. But I like to think that if the choices I make are slightly… — Daniel Radcliffe Copy Share Image
I'm not standing above the audience trying to manipulate them as a puppet master or a trickster; I'm inside the story I'm… — Scott Derrickson Copy Share Image
I had been fed, in my youth, a lot of old wives' tales about the way men would instantly forsake a beautiful… — Dorothy Parker Copy Share Image
As popular culture becomes more presentist, we move away from entertainment as the vicarious experience of a narrative - as watching someone… — Douglas Rushkoff Copy Share Image
I do think the challenge, in a way for me, is to write a narrative film and when you finish watching it… — Shane Black Copy Share Image
This is exactly the message that fairy tales get across to the child in manifold form: that a struggle against severe difficulties… — Bruno Bettelheim Copy Share Image
'The Authority,' by Warren Ellis and Bryan Hitch, really pioneered the widescreen, action-packed style of storytelling. — Jim Lee Copy Share Image
Of all the tall tales, I think my favorite is the one about Eli Whitney and the interchangeable parts. — Jack Handey Copy Share Image
“If everything went well, there would be no stories to tell. So, let's add another one to the list!” — Helen Jonsen Copy Share Image
I'm a man of the marketplace as well as an artist. I'm a pawnbroker of myth. — Richard Condon Copy Share Image
When the genuine myth rises into consciousness, that is always its message. You must change your life. — Ursula K. Le Guin Copy Share Image
Every song means something. Every song tells one of our stories, or a story together. — Maddie Marlow Copy Share Image
“In the entire history of the universe, there are many tales worth telling. ” — Matthew Kadish Copy Share Image
“But most important, she had broken through that invisible wall of terror that surrounded her, and lived to tell the tale.” — Robin Schwarz Copy Share Image
I grew up with a lot of fairy tales. And they had an essence of darkness to them. — Rupert Sanders Copy Share Image
Generally speaking, it has been my ambition to write as a good old nurse will speak when she tells fairy tales. — Joseph Jacobs Copy Share Image
Artists use lies to tell the truth. Yes, I created a lie. But because you believed it, you found something true about… — Alan Moore Copy Share Image
“Don't think about the writing process too much. Just do one thing: tell the motherfucking story.” — Don Roff Copy Share Image
I think storytelling is a thing of beauty, and also very difficult. It's a craft you have to continue to work at. — James Gray Copy Share Image
When fairy tales are written in the west, they're known as folklore. In the east, fairy tales are called religions. — Paul Henderson Copy Share Image
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