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
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
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
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
“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
“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 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
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
“I wish I could have shown you that engineheart- the system of pieces and parts that moved us forward, that moves us… — Christopher Boucher Copy Share Image
“The process doesn’t end there. Stories are more than just images. As you continue in the tale, you get to know the… — Livia Blackburne Copy Share Image
I'm somebody who grew up listening to a lot of musical theater, so getting to finally write musical theater songs and songs… — Sara Bareilles Copy Share Image
“Then my sole relief was to walk along the corridor of the third storey, backwards and forwards, safe in the silence and… — Charlotte Brontë 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
As a writer, I had learned a lot on 'Margin Call' about embracing the weaknesses of a narrative and of a project.… — J. C. Chandor Copy Share Image
“should these tales ever become public, whether you have not given us a page of talk for every single idea which two… — Walter Scott Copy Share Image
“words, you see," he said, looking at me again, "allow us to make permanent what is essentially transient.Turn a world filled with… — Vaddey Ratner Copy Share Image
“Stories. Character. Dialouge. Entire worlds created on the page. Worlds that could sweep you away or frighten you, make you laugh or… — Jamie Michaels Copy Share Image
“Storytelling is among the oldest forms of communication. Storytelling is the commonality of all human beings, in all places, in all times. ” — Rives Collins 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
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
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
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
“You see it is likely that, when my brother told the story, that night when we got home and my mother and… — Sherwood Anderson Copy Share Image
Sometimes, if I had until the next day to turn the story in, I'd head home, finding that the knot in the… — Calvin Trillin Copy Share Image
“What the myth founds is a double existence between the upper world and the underworld: a dimension of death is introduced into… — Walter Burkert Copy Share Image
Films and television and even comic books are churning out vast quantities of fictional narratives, and the public continues to swallow them… — Paul Auster Copy Share Image
After a traumatic event, people tend to store a series of memories and arrange them into a meaningful narrative. They remember exactly… — David Grann Copy Share Image
Oftentimes, as women and women of color, we are put as supporting characters in other people's narratives. With 'Jessica James', she is… — Jessica Williams Copy Share Image
When you're a storyteller, part of the process of storytelling is the kind of communion you form with the audience to whom… — Carlton Cuse Copy Share Image
The last level of metaphor in the Alice books is this: that life, viewed rationally and without illusion, appears to be a… — Martin Gardner Copy Share Image
I suffer from and enjoy an incredibly vivid dream life. A lot of times there is a sort of narrative, and other… — Adam Rapp Copy Share Image
It's about storytelling. The story is told through images. So with the cast, I had to make sure that the emotions were… — Michel Hazanavicius Copy Share Image
I love studying folklore and legends. The stories that people passed down for a thousand years without any sort of marketing support… — Tim Schafer 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
