“Stories change us; they change the world. People are stories of themselves.” — Karen Healey Copy Share Image
“Why didn't my father get to give Mom the fairy tale? Why do most people fail to give each other the fairy… — Matthew Quick Copy Share Image
I did have a feeling then that the culture of factuality was so dominating that storytelling had lost all its authority. — E. L. Doctorow Copy Share Image
I feel, in storytelling, people are so afraid that you won't get it unless you pound them over the head. — David Harbour Copy Share Image
Every success story is a tale of constant adaption, revision and change. — Richard Branson Copy Share Image
“We can't meaningfully proceed with healing, with restoration, without "re-story-ation".” — Robin Wall Kimmerer Copy Share Image
You can't outsmart or outguess the audience in terms of what the narrative answer is. — Frank Spotnitz Copy Share Image
The glory of a good tale is that it is limitless and fluid; a good tale belongs to each reader in its… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
Visual storytelling combines the narrative text of a story with creative elements to augment and enhance the traditional storytelling process. By design,… — Debbie Millman Copy Share Image
In Harlan, Kentucky, we told stories the way some people play music. ... In the mountains, storytelling is truly an art form,… — Maxine Cheshire Copy Share Image
“I have from the first felt sure that the writer, when he sits down to commence his novel, should do so, not… — Anthony Trollope Copy Share Image
“The way some people read the parables reminds me of Aesop's Fables. And the way others read them reminds me of the… — Jared C. Wilson Copy Share Image
The challenge for a writer looking at history is to figure out what is history and what is myth. After all, what… — Dan Brown Copy Share Image
“They say you die twice: once when you stop breathing, and again when your story is forgotten. But in sharing our stories,… — Camellia Yang Copy Share Image
Considerations of plot do a great deal of heavy lifting when it comes to long-form narrative - readers will overlook the most… — Lynn Coady Copy Share Image
When someone admits one and rejects another which is equally in accordance with the appearances, it is clear that he has quitted… — Epicurus Copy Share Image
“You may have come to advocacy on your own, it may be part of your job or you may have been asked… — John Capecci and Timothy Cage Copy Share Image
“As the video game designer and writer James Wallis puts it, “Human beings like stories. Our brains have a natural affinity not… — Jonathan Gottschall Copy Share Image
The thing that always interests me from a storytelling point of view is how that moment of trauma, whatever the trauma is,… — Steven Bochco Copy Share Image
“It has generally been assumed that fairy tales were first created for children and are largely the domain of children. But nothing… — Jack Zipes Copy Share Image
“In older myths, the dark road leads downward into the Underworld, where Persephone is carried off by Hades, much against her will,… — Terri Windling Copy Share Image
Storytelling is more like a skin. You start with the outermost layer, what it's going to look like, then you kind of… — Charlie Jane Anders Copy Share Image
“The worst of such stories is that the triumphant romancers can always be put to confusion and crushed by the very details… — Fyodor Dostoyevsky Copy Share Image
“News organizations are coy about admitting that what they present us with each day are minuscule extracts of narratives whose true shape… — Alain de Botton Copy Share Image
What I've experienced, I'm trying to put in a narrative form, I suppose, to say that it does make sense in this… — Oliver Stone Copy Share Image
No myth of miraculous creation is so marvelous as the face of man's evolution. — Robert Briffault Copy Share Image
True myths, ancient and modern, stop time because they emerge from somewhere beyond time. — Phil Cousineau Copy Share Image
History is a long and endlessly interesting argument, where evidence is everything and storytelling is everything else. — Jill Lepore Copy Share Image
I like making people feel things. Acting doesn't seem like lying but like storytelling. — Morgan Saylor Copy Share Image
I used to use a lot of words in the paintings but stopped because it created a narrative - or an answer… — Danny Fox Copy Share Image
So there are different examples of fairy tales, and sometimes I believe in them and sometimes I don't. — Taylor Swift Copy Share Image
Stories about travelers coming into town and doing good have been part of our storytelling since the Bible. — Dean Devlin Copy Share Image
“We Have Always Fought': Challenging the 'Women, Cattle and Slaves' Narrative” — Kameron Hurley Copy Share Image
Some write a narrative of wars and feats, Of heroes little known, and call the rant A history. — William Cowper Copy Share Image
I like to start with the first chapter, end with chapter 40. No flashbacks, nothing fancy, just a direct storytelling. — John Grisham Copy Share Image
Games are advancing in terms of storytelling and trying to create a character, and it's a brand new audience for me. — Kevin Spacey Copy Share Image
Yesterday is gone and took away its tale. Today we must live a fresh story again. — Rumi Copy Share Image
The poetic myths are dead; and the poetic image, which is the myth of the individual, reigns in their stead. — Cecil Day-Lewis Copy Share Image
The narrative of serial art works more like music than like literature. — Sol LeWitt Copy Share Image
Image, lyrics, content, storytelling, cohesive body of work - that's Prince to me. — The Weeknd Copy Share Image
