No myth of miraculous creation is so marvelous as the face of man's evolution. — Robert Briffault 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
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
“We Have Always Fought': Challenging the 'Women, Cattle and Slaves' Narrative” — Kameron Hurley Copy Share Image
“The narratives we create in order to justify our actions and choices become in so many ways who we are. They are… — Cheryl Strayed Copy Share Image
If my tale has to revolve around a protagonist and there is action around him, I can only imagine him to be… — Gautham Menon Copy Share Image
In spite of recent trends towards fabricating photographic narratives, I find, more than ever, traditional photographic capture, the 'discovery' of found narratives,… — Richard Misrach Copy Share Image
We tell myths over and over again, lest we forget who we are, lest we not understand that these tales take us… — Julie Taymor Copy Share Image
In spite of all the dishonour, the broken standards, the broken lives, The broken faith in one place or another, There was… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“So there’s a freeing up that happens when I can go into that storytelling mode...It isn’t about how much sense you make,… — Nalo Hopkinson Copy Share Image
I plan years in advance, but I like to leave enough space in the narrative scheme to change things, because I always… — Grant Morrison Copy Share Image
What I think of as 'freakonomics' is mostly storytelling around an idea - not a theme but an idea. I like ideas… — Stephen J. Dubner 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
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
“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
“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
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
“This got me thinking about endings and how the final moments of a story can color our entire perception of a narrative.… — Crystal Cestari Copy Share Image
If you're writing a book where you want to make a positive truth claim, then you should absolutely call it nonfiction or… — Elif Batuman Copy Share Image
The Tale Of Love On my fading day, I may Sneak in, to throw a tale Of, what words cannot touch, And… — Anonymous 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
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
Some write a narrative of wars and feats, Of heroes little known, and call the rant A history. — William Cowper 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
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
“Fact and myth are history’s bedfellows; it’s hard to wake one without disturbing the other.” — J.G. McKenney 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
Tales are sometimes written in order to relate to real life situations that people have. — Saaif Alam 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
“The uniquely human ability to collectively believe in myths allows strangers to cooperate.” — FastReads Copy Share Image
“Stories change us; they change the world. People are stories of themselves.” — Karen Healey Copy Share Image
