I've always been drawn to dark stories. I enjoy reading Flannery O'Connor, Patricia Highsmith, and Margaret Mitchell. — Karin Slaughter Copy Share Image
“For those who relish speculation regarding the future, the tale of supernatural horror provides an interesting field.” — H.P. Lovecraft Copy Share Image
Fairy tales cross generational lines, and how you respond to them depends on when in your life you're seeing them. — James Lapine Copy Share Image
“Myth: Being a vampire changes your life. Truth: Well, we'll just have to see, won't we?” — Kimberly Pauley Copy Share Image
A fairy tale is the kind of story in which one king goes to another king to borrow a cup of sugar — Angela Carter Copy Share Image
Human beings are storytelling animals. That's what separates us from other creatures, not just having thumbs or using tools. — Marion Dane Bauer Copy Share Image
“Originality is a myth perpetuated by the naive, the romantic, and the unscrupulous.” — Tom Robbins Copy Share Image
Storytelling was the most honored of all talents, for it benefited everyone. — Stephenie Meyer Copy Share Image
“Like a tree or a river, a story can have many branches or tributaries—but its power comes from the root, the origin… — Lawrence Nault Copy Share Image
A lot of fairy tales are thinly disguised hostility raps against parents. Kids know that they can't make it on their own,… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
I think that Shakespeare himself raided fairy tales and chronicle writers, and he always looked to people who worked in the mythic… — Kenneth Branagh Copy Share Image
Artistic symbols and myths speak out of the primordial, preconscious realm of the mind which is powerful and chaotic. Both symbol and… — Rollo May Copy Share Image
I've always been a super-fan of television storytelling. It took me a while to figure that out in a career capacity, but… — Julie Plec Copy Share Image
“While adoration periodically crept into the relationships between slaves and overseers, their most unsavory interactions provided the inexplicable narrative for a dark… — Trevor P. Wardlaw Copy Share Image
A tale, like the universe, they tell us, expands ceaselessly each time you examine it, until there’s finally no telling exactly where… — Chang-Rae Lee Copy Share Image
Most people who seek attention and regard by announcing that they're writing a novel are actually so devoid of narrative talent that… — Paul Fussell Copy Share Image
Novels institutionalize the ruse of eros. It becomes a narrative texture of sustained incongruence, emotional and cognitive. It permits the reader to… — Anne Carson Copy Share Image
“Anything that doesn't fit this mode has been shoved into an area of lesser solemnity called 'genre fiction,' and it is here… — Margaret Atwood Copy Share Image
I grew up with probably three different authors having a seminal influence on my childhood, Dr. Seuss being one and Maurice Sendak… — Christopher Meledandri Copy Share Image
Well, let’s start with the maxim that the best writing is understated, meaning it’s not full of flourishes and semaphores and tap… — Gene Weingarten Copy Share Image
“A story, whether it be novel, short fiction, screenplay, play or poetry or any form of non-fiction, is like an ecosystem in… — Andrew Binks Copy Share Image
“At first he told them that everything was just the same, that the pink snails were still in the house where he… — Gabriel García Márquez Copy Share Image
“I think of myth and magic as the hieroglyphics of the human psyche. They are a special language that circumvents conscious thought… — Ripley Patton Copy Share Image
“But Addie knows too well now, knows that these stories are full of foolish humans doing foolish things, warning tales of gods… — V.E. Schwab Copy Share Image
When I used to read fairy-tales, I fancied that kind of thing never happened, and now here I am in the middle… — Lewis Carroll Copy Share Image
“AS ALL FAIRY TALES DO, this story begins with the simplest of words: once upon a time….” — Elizabeth Rudnick Copy Share Image
We need storytelling. Otherwise life just goes on and on, like the number Pi. — Ang Lee Copy Share Image
“When a solid first draft of an original tale is complete...you feel as if you could do anything.” — Christy Hall Copy Share Image
The myth of the self-made man, has to be profoundly hypocritical: it is the self-serving demonstration that a lie is the truth — Che Guevara Copy Share Image
Finding one's voice - or creating a narrative voice that has the power to carry your story - is the hardest part. — Danielle Trussoni Copy Share Image
As soon as I left Georgia, my narrative became about taking risks and the fight for creative bedroom artists with no platform. — Kevin Abstract Copy Share Image
Storytelling and copulation are the two chief forms of amusement in the South. Theyre inexpensive and easy to procure. — Robert Penn Warren Copy Share Image
Before you can challenge a received narrative about the past, you should be expert in its established contours. — Heather Mac Donald Copy Share Image
Stories are important...They can be more important than anything. If they carry the truth. — Patrick Ness Copy Share Image
“When we believe a wounding story, our whole world is diminished.” — Sharon Salzberg Copy Share Image
I love all that stuff like 'Tales From The Crypt,' 'Twlight Zone,' and 'Amazing Stories.' — Dan Fogler Copy Share Image
“Some stories have to be written because no one would believe the absurdity of it all.” — Shannon L. Alder Copy Share Image
Death is the sanction of everything that the storyteller can tell. He has borrowed his authority from death. — Walter Benjamin Copy Share Image
