I definitely read a lot of books on the psychology and mythology behind fairy tales because I think that's really fascinating and… — Meghan Ory Copy Share Image
“On my book, Fly on the Wall and Other Stories, This intriguing debut collection of short stories displays craft, discipline and narrative… — Namita Gokhale Copy Share Image
The interesting thing about 'The Handmaid's Tale' is that everything that happens in it has happened or is happening somewhere in the… — Reed Morano Copy Share Image
“Well, if you are to help me with my work, you had better get used to stories without endings. True stories seldom… — Frances Hardinge Copy Share Image
Trying to tell a narrative throughline while also doing something that's physically demanding... it's just challenging, and you don't know if it… — Emma D'Arcy Copy Share Image
“The obvious danger for most corporate storytellers is that they see themselves as needing to cast spells of persuasion and enchantment with… — Calvin Niles Copy Share Image
'Pierrot le Fou' is something I keep coming back to. It's so surreal but still really engaging - it proves narratives within… — Shane Carruth Copy Share Image
writers are makers, not just transmitters, of myths. Literature offers not only myths but counter-myths, just as life offers counter-experiences - experiences… — Susan Sontag Copy Share Image
I think the reason the stories are briskly paced, when they are, is that I like story. I like stories where things… — Nick Antosca Copy Share Image
Any platform that you use to tell stories helps you regardless of the medium regardless if they are bedtime stories that you… — Jeph Loeb Copy Share Image
This life, which had been the tomb of his virtue and of his honour, is but a walking shadow; a poor player,… — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
“But despite these signs of ill-omen, the city was poised, with a new myth glinting in the corners of its eyes. August… — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image
As I see it, a successful story of any kind should be almost like hypnosis: You fascinate the reader with your first… — Alan Moore Copy Share Image
Both dreams and myths are important communications from ourselves to ourselves. If we do not understand the language in which they are… — Erich Fromm Copy Share Image
LORE, n. Learning --particularly that sort which is not derived from a regular course of instruction but comes of the reading of… — Ambrose Bierce Copy Share Image
Myths are public dreams; dreams are private myths. By finding your own dream and following it through, it will lead you to… — Joseph Campbell Copy Share Image
The 'punch' of a truly weird tale is simply some violation or transcending of fixed cosmic law - an imaginative escape from… — H. P. Lovecraft Copy Share Image
Me and my needs were driving my mother away. Me and my needs retreated to my closet, disappeared into fairy tales. I… — Marya Hornbacher Copy Share Image
A little bit of one story joins onto an idea from another, and hey presto, . . . not old tales but… — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image
“My American adolescence was filled with tales of woe like this, all of them proof of what my mother said, that we… — Viet Thanh Nguyen Copy Share Image
Only - only that, if you believe the tales, it's in the nature of our people to go to war and to… — Juliet Marillier Copy Share Image
“The most invidious myth of our civilization is the idea that any form of social contract can substitute for unrelenting moment-to-moment awareness… — Marco Vassi Copy Share Image
Folk tales are my favourite form of story telling. They not only just adjust the reader according to the world it is… — Shweta Basu Prasad Copy Share Image
People tend to think of fairy tales as 'archetypal.' They are also extremely sensual, something which translates well over the ages. — Kate Bernheimer Copy Share Image
I certainly have been writing stories that are hard science fiction, that are very reminiscent of 'Golden Age tales' from the '40s… — Ken Liu Copy Share Image
When the Tories came to power in 2010, the ground-breaking Equality Act had just become law. But the newly appointed Equalities Minister… — Emily Thornberry Copy Share Image
I so wish to work with Sanjay Leela Bhansali because his creativity is of a different level. His vision, his style of… — Ishita Dutta Copy Share Image
“Storytelling? God started that. Discovery. Lust. Murder. Revenge. Power. Sin. Redemption. Forgiveness. Miracles. We simply retell the stories in the language of… — Dennis R. Miller Copy Share Image
We're [also] trying to talk to a generation who grew up on the Internet. They're digital natives, and, essentially, they speak through… — Andrew Aydin Copy Share Image
“myth” in this strict sense is a story that purports to be in some sense “historical” and that encapsulates and reinforces the… — N.T. Wright Copy Share Image
My whole life I've tried to find the thing I can do that other people can't do, and invest in that, and… — David Berman Copy Share Image
“Myths may not satisfy the demands of rationality or science, but they contain profound wisdom - provided one believes they do and… — Devdutt Pattanaik Copy Share Image
I think making a film and making a TV show and using images illustratively and telling the story through images is different… — RaMell Ross Copy Share Image
I don't write non-fiction because I get bored. Some of my writing is autobiographical, but not the way readers imagine. I use… — Sefi Atta Copy Share Image
“I am a monster. The worst kind of monster. The kind that people have told stories about for thousands of years. The… — Heather Lyons Copy Share Image
I believe that imagination is stronger than knowledge - myth is more potent than history - dreams are more powerful than facts… — Robert Fulghum Copy Share Image
Justin Lin, the writer and director of the teenage-wasteland drama 'Better Luck Tomorrow,' a shrewdly tense piece of storytelling, recognizes that sometimes… — Elvis Mitchell Copy Share Image
Real myths are often strange and startlingly unfamiliar, and don't always give up their meanings easily; you have to tease them out,… — Elizabeth Hand Copy Share Image
“When fiction has become reality, life may turn into a fairy tale or a firestorm. Tina, time has come to pull up… — Erik Pevernagie Copy Share Image
I am completely fascinated by the differences and comparisons between real life and fairy tales because we're raised as little girls to… — Taylor Swift Copy Share Image
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