“You are far too stolid and unimaginative, Watson, to invent a tale like that.” — James Lovegrove Copy Share Image
the announcement that you are going to tell a good story (and the chuckle that precedes it) is always a dangerous opening. — Margot Asquith Copy Share Image
I was raised by and have raised people who regard telling one story when two would do as a sign someone is… — Linda Ellerbee Copy Share Image
In our age, self-indulgence and self-destruction, rather than self-sacrifice, are the foundations for new heroic myths. — Dean Koontz Copy Share Image
Television can take anything. It can take the most exaggerated of storytelling forms. — Ian Mckellen Copy Share Image
The media likes stories. We like narratives. we don't like facts. We don't like justice. — Will Cain Copy Share Image
If I have a problem, it is this: there is a store where everything costs a dollar. — Gary Lutz Copy Share Image
Start writing, no matter what. The water does not flow until the faucet is turned on — Louis L'Amour Copy Share Image
A lot of the ancient Norse myths and legends are the basis of a lot of the sci-fi, fantasy films out there.… — Karl Urban Copy Share Image
In crime fiction, I just don't write the parts that aren't a thriller and it's exactly the same in my TV reporting… — Hank Phillippi Ryan Copy Share Image
Some after-the-fact storytelling is inevitable, and, in fact, very good and useful. But then we want always to be able to enrich… — Nicholson Baker Copy Share Image
Almost everyone shuts down when science becomes too technical; you've got to infuse it with entertainment and storytelling to make it effective.… — Greg Graffin Copy Share Image
Broken stories can be healed. Diseased stories can be replaced by healthy ones. We are free to change the stories by which… — Daniel Taylor Copy Share Image
I've always felt that the traditional novel doesn't give you enough information about the narrator, and I think it's important to know… — W. G. Sebald Copy Share Image
I just feel that God gave me a certain gift, and that was to go out, do storytelling and be an actor.… — Eric Close Copy Share Image
I went to Princeton to major in comparative literature. I never went to film school, but I studied storytelling across mediums -… — Elizabeth Chai Vasarhelyi Copy Share Image
“tale is thus both instructive and cautionary, filled with lessons about innovation, character, leadership, and values. Shakespeare’s Henry V—the story of a… — Walter Isaacson Copy Share Image
“There are many narratives from documented histories that are based on real events, of course, but they were fantastically embellished by the… — Leah Reise Copy Share Image
“Man seeks to escape himself in myth, and does so by any means at his disposal… unnable to withdraw into himself, he… — Jean Cocteau Copy Share Image
Storytelling is the oldest form of entertainment there is. From campfires and pictograms - the Lascaux cave paintings may be as much… — Maria Konnikova Copy Share Image
It wasn't long after I began writing Star Wars that I realized the story was more than a single film could hold.… — George Lucas Copy Share Image
“Fantasy elevates ordinary and eternal problems of young people into stories via the language of myth. It turns “No one really knows… — Erin Bow Copy Share Image
Digging up new information and speculating on it isn't your primary purpose when you're writing a biography intended for young readers, unless… — Russell Freedman Copy Share Image
“Iff replied that the Plentimaw Fishes were what he called 'hunger artists' — 'Because when they are hungry they swallow stories through… — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image
Comedy is changing. The appetite for more diverse stories is getting bigger. — Lolly Adefope Copy Share Image
I would rather impress you with my storytelling than with the size of my waist and my hips. — Tink Copy Share Image
The story is everything, which means it's our job to tell better stories. — Kevin Spacey Copy Share Image
'Frankenstein' feels like an ancient tale, the kind of traditional story that appears in many other forms. — Kenneth Branagh Copy Share Image
She felt as if she had strayed into a fairy tale, as full of peril as of wonder, a place where anything… — Kate Forsyth Copy Share Image
Some fairy tales end with the girl marrying the prince... some start there. — Diane von Furstenberg Copy Share Image
The nature of storytelling, since the dawn of man, has a beginning, a middle, and an end. — Matthew Gray Gubler Copy Share Image
“We are narrative creatures, and we need narrative nourishment—narrative catechisms.” — N.D. Wilson Copy Share Image
Writing is more about imagination than anything else. I fell in love with words. I fell in love with storytelling. — Pat Conroy Copy Share Image
“Without stories, how do we know who we are? How can we imagine who we can be?” — Kate Cann Copy Share Image
Sainthood emerges when you can listen to someone's tale of woe and not respond with a description of your own. — Andrew Mason Copy Share Image
Fairly tales are myths, and myths are only myths because there's a grain of truth in them. — Silas Weir Mitchell Copy Share Image
The myth is that it is possible for one human being to educate another — Oliver DeMille Copy Share Image
“Stories Jane, are magic and magic will always carry you to wonderful places, even at the worst of times.” — D.L. Alexander Copy Share Image
