I grew up falling in love with kind of story, amazing, wonder tale of the East, which if you're a child growing… — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image
Kafka's evocations are, rather, unconscious and almost sub-archetypal, the little-kid stuff from which myths derive; this is why we tend to call… — David Foster Wallace Copy Share Image
But a myth, to speak plainly, to me is like a menu in a fancy French restaurant: glamorous, complicated camouflage for a… — William Peter Blatty Copy Share Image
More knowledge may be gained of a man's real character by a short conversation with one of his servants than from a… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
“But not even Hitler can damage the fells' In 'The Tale of Beatrix Potter, A Autobiography' by Margaret Lane, first edition, page 170.” — Beatrix Potter Copy Share Image
The more a character wants and the less a character has the ability to get what they want, the more you have… — Alex Hirsch Copy Share Image
Storytelling is storytelling. Good stories need compelling characters and interesting conflicts. That's the bottom line no matter what medium you're writing for. — D. J. MacHale Copy Share Image
“What I have written is drawn from experience — from seeing, hearing and working with mountaineers. In a land with few books… — Harry M. Caudill Copy Share Image
“A few mad exaggerations, alright, within a couple of days: swear to fucking god, they were like throwing grenades and pulling out… — China Miéville Copy Share Image
The music that I first fell in love with was American music, really. Nothing against British acts - I love them and… — George Ezra Copy Share Image
“All of the great mythologies and much of the mythic story-telling of the world are from the male point of view. When… — Joseph Campbell Copy Share Image
Once upon a time fairy tales were told to audiences of young and old alike. It is only in the last century… — Terri Windling Copy Share Image
“My mother had comforted me with tales ever since I was small. Sometimes they helped me peel a problem like an onion,… — Anita Amirrezvani Copy Share Image
“One of the greatest myths in the world–and the phrase “greatest myths” is just a fancy way of saying “big fat lies”–is… — Lemony Snicket Copy Share Image
I met Laura Morton through a friend who had hired her to help her write her own story. Though Laura is chock-full… — Randi Zuckerberg Copy Share Image
People have always told tales. Long before humanity learned to write and gradually became literate, everybody told tales to everybody else and… — Gunter Grass Copy Share Image
“It’s never too late to tell a good story, to create a new myth that rouses us from our intoxicated slumber, that… — Derek Rydall Copy Share Image
The juxtaposition of words - the color, feeling, and sound of the words together - has as much to do with the… — Chad Smith Copy Share Image
Fairy tales are more than true nit only because they prove that dragon's exist, but because they prove that dragons can be… — Coraline; The Movie Copy Share Image
“Giving a fuck what other people thought was a road straight to misery and pain; an obsession of the weak. To believe… — Stacia Kane Copy Share Image
Short forms are returning online. Interactivity is coming back; it was always there in oral storytelling. Each form has its pluses and… — Margaret Atwood Copy Share Image
“Conspiracy adepts love story-tellers who want to exorcise their fear, mixing rational and irrational elements to construct a plausible narrative for people… — Erik Pevernagie Copy Share Image
We're really building, at the highest level, the future of entertainment. And we're involved in the convergence of social communication and storytelling… — David Baszucki Copy Share Image
“Sometimes a homeland becomes a tale. We love the story because it is about our homeland and we love our homeland even… — Refaat Alareer Copy Share Image
Theatre is filled w/ passion, risk and drama (as much behind-the-curtain as on stage), perfect ingredients for documentary storytelling. — Dori Berinstein Copy Share Image
“a lifetime’s worth of narratives happening at once—the television. At first I was amazed. Soon I found it predictable, however, and dulling… — Stephen P. Kiernan Copy Share Image
I love being a part of storytelling, so whether I'm getting to do that on Survivor, or do it through kids' adventure… — Jeff Probst Copy Share Image
One of the best things about folklore and fairy tales is that the best fantasy is what you find right around the… — Terri Windling Copy Share Image
In 6,000 years of storytelling, [people have] gone from depicting hunting on cave walls to depicting Shakespeare on Facebook walls. — Joe Sabia Copy Share Image
I grew up with some kind of storytelling instinct, and when I write, my default setting is to find a story and… — Khaled Hosseini Copy Share Image
“There are a colorful rainbow of events that make up one sentence in every narrative. It takes the literary in its entirety… — Deanna L. Lawlis Copy Share Image
The storytelling gift is innate: one has it or one doesn't. But style is at least partly a learned thing: one refines… — Donna Tartt Copy Share Image
I think that good storytelling of any kind does promote a humility in that it encourages you to see the world the… — Jonathan Dee Copy Share Image
Myths grow all the time. If I was to listen to the number of times I've thrown teacups then we've gone through… — Alex Ferguson Copy Share Image
My life is storytelling. I believe in stories, in their incredible power to keep people alive, to keep the living alive, and… — Tim O'Brien Copy Share Image
Think what you would have been now, if instead of being fed with tales and old wives' fables in childhood, you had… — Charles Lamb Copy Share Image
“Science fiction and fantasy literature has always been defined by tales of heroism. It is meant to represent humanity at our very… — Mira Grant Copy Share Image
I just adore being on set. I adore storytelling. I can be on a set 70 hours a week and on those… — Jay Baruchel Copy Share Image
I have a bit of a love affair with fairy tales and some of the ideas of Irish mythology, like Oscar Wilde… — Hozier Copy Share Image
Star Wars is mythology. Its like Greek mythology or Shakespeare. Its the story of good versus evil over a very long span… — Michael Franti Copy Share Image
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