“We all tell our stories the way we want to. And sometimes those stories have nothing to do with reality.” — Danielle Ganek Copy Share Image
Records told the same tale, then the lie passed into history and became truth. — George Orwell Copy Share Image
I'm a fan of classic romance films as well as screwball comedies. I think love stories are just compelling narratives. — Rose Matafeo Copy Share Image
Historically speaking, the books I usually connect with the most are written in first-person narrative. — Davey Havok Copy Share Image
Christmas is not a myth, not a tradition, not a dream. It is a glorious reality. — Billy Graham Copy Share Image
In storytelling, the audience actually wants to work for their meal, they just don't want to know that they're doing it. — Andrew Stanton Copy Share Image
A lot of my early career, I wrote story songs that had narratives, that had plots. — Rupert Holmes Copy Share Image
The earliest voice listened to by the nations in their infancy was the voice of the storyteller. — Agnes Repplier Copy Share Image
Gradually it occurred to me that we spend a great deal of life asleep and that dreams are little narratives, little stories.… — Sue Monk Kidd Copy Share Image
I learned there's an amazing unexplored territory in terms of narrative. Before, I thought the unexplored territory was the form, the way… — Alfonso Cuaron Copy Share Image
Research can be a boon to a novelist - there are more things in heaven and Earth than can be dreamt of… — Michelle Dean Copy Share Image
You know, I thought we could use a good myth about technology to help guide us through these particular modern waters right… — Jeff Bridges Copy Share Image
I used to say that stores were like museums. I appreciated it, I could look at it, but it really wasn't for… — Shoshanna Lonstein Gruss Copy Share Image
When you're late in a fairy tale, people wind up dead. And not true-love's-kiss, glass-coffin-nap-time dead. Really dead, the kind of dead… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
As a filmmaker, I want to bring some value, some thought in the mind of my audience. When I embark on the… — Sriram Raghavan Copy Share Image
This is not a fairy tale. This is not the movies. This was life. It hurt more. It was excruciating. It was… — Francesca Lia Block Copy Share Image
“Storyteller's Creed: I believe that imagination is stronger than knowledge. That myth is more potent than history. That dreams are more powerful… — Robert Fulghum Copy Share Image
I think we all are born inside of our parents' narratives. We stay there for a good while. We are taught their… — Melissa Febos Copy Share Image
The great wheel of fire of ancient wisdom, silence and word engendering the myth of the origin, human action engendering the epic… — Carlos Fuentes Copy Share Image
“We have, each of us, a life-story, an inner narrative — whose continuity, whose sense, is our lives. It might be said… — Oliver Sacks Copy Share Image
“There was a time he’d heard tales of Dab Sweet and he’d stuck thumbs in his belt and chin to the sky… — Joe Abercrombie Copy Share Image
The unrealistic nature of these tales (which narrowminded rationalists object to) is an important device, because it makes obvious that the fairy… — Bruno Bettelheim Copy Share Image
It is however, difficult to make your narratives relative by yourself. A novelists' work is to provide models to make your narratives… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
The idea of suggesting that Hannibal Lecter - in the book, he has a sixth finger and red eyes, and so there… — Bryan Fuller Copy Share Image
“Account books form a narrative as engaging as any tale of sea monsters or cannibals.” — Hilary Mantel Copy Share Image
Truly songs and tales fall utterly short of the reality, O Smaug the Chiefest and greatest of Calamities. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
First person narrative is a very effective tool but you have to know as a writer how to make it work. — James McBride Copy Share Image
“Where do you think stories come from, E'lir Kvothe? Every tale has deep roots somewhere in the world.” — Patrick Rothfuss Copy Share Image
But are not the dreams of poets and the tales of travellers notoriously false? — H. P. Lovecraft Copy Share Image
A touch of science, even bogus science, gives an edge to the superstitious tale. — V. S. Pritchett Copy Share Image
One hopes that each piece contains enough space for several narratives. — Kiki Smith Copy Share Image
The myth is a surviving fragment of the psychic life of the infancy of the race whilst the dream is the myth… — Karl Abraham Copy Share Image
All these lives," she said. "All the stories we never know." (125) — Elizabeth Strout Copy Share Image
Ones in a while right in the of an ordinary life, love give us a fairy tale. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Has my tale turned you speechless? Come, curse me or kiss me or call me a liar. Something. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“The business of stories is not enchantment. The business of stories is not escape. The business of stories is waking up.” — Martin Shaw Copy Share Image
“Fact and myth are history’s bedfellows; it’s hard to wake one without disturbing the other.” — J.G. McKenney Copy Share Image
Tales are sometimes written in order to relate to real life situations that people have. — Saaif Alam Copy Share Image
“The uniquely human ability to collectively believe in myths allows strangers to cooperate.” — FastReads Copy Share Image
Fairy tales have always got to have something a bit scary for children - as long as you make them laugh as… — Roald Dahl Copy Share Image
