The true alchemists do not change lead into gold; they change the world into words. — William H. Gass Copy Share Image
I like the idea of building this wandering, epic narrative in a form that people don't expect epic narratives to appear. — Lucas Neff Copy Share Image
I've always thought of the western as American storytelling at its best. — Kiefer Sutherland Copy Share Image
Writing children's books gives a writer a very strong sense of narrative drive. — Helen Dunmore Copy Share Image
“Your passion as an artist is a magnet that draws you at all times, but if you don’t follow, it will suffocate… — Pawan Mishra Copy Share Image
The mainstream media hears what it wants to hear and has its own narratives. — Stephen F. Cohen Copy Share Image
I have an affinity for a lot of things that are kind of fairy-tale-ish and bookish. — Alison Sudol Copy Share Image
O Reader! had you in your mind Such stores as silent thought can bring, O gentle Reader! you would find A tale… — William Wordsworth Copy Share Image
It is our stories that will recreate us, when we are torn, hurt, even destroyed. It is the storyteller, the dream-maker, the… — Doris Lessing Copy Share Image
Biggie and Big Pun were the best storytellers of the '90s. I would get wrapped up in the narrative of what they… — Lin-Manuel Miranda Copy Share Image
A tale should be judicious, clear, succinct; The language plain, and incidents well link'd; Tell not as new what ev'ry body knows;… — William Cowper Copy Share Image
“It’s strange how some folks tell a tale. They go round and round cause the story is a little biddy thing that… — Leah Weiss Copy Share Image
Admixing the inner space of dream, trance, and myth with the events of everyday existence characterized every belief system worldwide before the… — Leonard Shlain Copy Share Image
We have been pushing forward on a new way of storytelling we call 'collaborative journalism' on behalf of a number of our… — Richard Edelman Copy Share Image
“When you tell the tale of how another person is from your perspective, you're making him or her into a character, a… — Kira Asatryan Copy Share Image
With any sci-fi fantasy storytelling, you must have rules be very clear, otherwise you lose people, like 'OK, they can fly; now… — Melissa Rosenberg Copy Share Image
“With a glance back towards the house, he pulled the secret sketches from within. He'd been working at them on and off… — Kate Morton Copy Share Image
The Tories had the legal right to demand extra meetings of the council but I could decide when they would be held… — Ken Livingstone Copy Share Image
It has been said that the myth is a public dream, dreams are private myths. Unfortunately we give our mythic side scant… — Mary Zimmerman Copy Share Image
“Anyway, it's a pretty good story," I said. "You have to admit." "Yeah?" He crumpled up the Kleenex, having dispatched the solitary… — Michael Chabon Copy Share Image
“My people understood that time is an ocean, not a river. It doesn't flow away and pour itself out, done and gone.… — Laini Taylor Copy Share Image
Romance novels are tales of brave women taming dangerous men. They are stories that capture the excitement of that most mysterious of… — Jayne Ann Krentz Copy Share Image
“One thing writers have in common is the need to procrastinate. People don't really understand this, but it's not avoiding work, it… — Steven T. Seagle Copy Share Image
“Every adult life could be said to be defined by two great love stories. The first - the story of our quest… — Alain de Botton Copy Share Image
The infectious values and myths transmitted by bad sportswriters may be the deadliest words in the paper. — Robert Lipsyte Copy Share Image
“It's fun telling you tall Texas tales. You always look like a little girl who's hearing Cinderella for the first time.” — Edna Ferber Copy Share Image
“This intriguing debut collection of short stories displays craft, discipline and narrative strength.” — Namita Gokhale Copy Share Image
Memory doesn't come as a straight narrative. It comes in small moments with all this white space. — Jacqueline Woodson Copy Share Image
I'm handed a bunch of existing data. My job is to put that in the best narrative form. That is a puzzle… — Hilary Liftin Copy Share Image
“If we are going to live with our deepest differences then we must learn about one another.” — Deborah J. Levine Copy Share Image
“The idea that traumatic residues—or unresolved stories—can be inherited is groundbreaking.” — Sharon Salzberg Copy Share Image
“For any marginalized group to change the story that society tells about them takes courage and perseverance.” — Sharon Salzberg Copy Share Image
At every moment of our lives, we all have one foot in a fairy tale and the other in the abyss. — Paulo Coelho Copy Share Image
I think color, for a costume designer, is one of your biggest storytelling devices. — Alexandra Byrne Copy Share Image
Perhaps the greatest myth being purveyed, is that myths are just myths. — Michael Tsarion Copy Share Image
I fell in love with commerce and the opportunities that come with compelling visual storytelling. — Ruzwana Bashir Copy Share Image
We all have stories for a reason, and if we keep them to ourselves, I don't feel they would help anybody. — Sabrina Carpenter Copy Share Image
'For Those Who Can Tell No Tales' is a story of memory and the energy of places that remain full of drama,… — Jasmila Zbanic Copy Share Image
“Writing is more about telling other peoples' stories than your own” — Carla H. Krueger Copy Share Image
To me, the AMC brand is great storytelling - they call it slow-burn storytelling. — Billy Campbell Copy Share Image
