I think my dad's influence on me as a writer, or just a creative thinker, is, more than anything, that I grew… — Gracie Abrams Copy Share Image
“He who repeats a tale after a man, Is bound to say, as nearly as he can, Each single word, if he… — Geoffrey Chaucer Copy Share Image
Web is going to become very big... The format is different in terms of its storytelling pattern and its duration. Web audience… — Arbaaz Khan Copy Share Image
I have lost stories and many starts of novels before. Not always as punishment for 'telling,' but more often as a result… — Cynthia Ozick Copy Share Image
In comics, my experience has been mostly artists whose visual storytelling chops are either weak or they're more invested in rushing to… — Christopher Priest Copy Share Image
I certainly don't think of my life as a fairy tale. I think of myself as a modern, contemporary woman who has… — Grace Kelly Copy Share Image
'The Odyssey' is the great tale, and I was really taken by 'The Iliad,' so I dig into those things, and when… — Karl Marlantes Copy Share Image
Primes seem to me to be these unarbitrary, unique, fated things. It cannot be coincidence that the mythical numbers of storytelling like… — Robin Sloan Copy Share Image
Radio, or at least the kind of radio we're proposing to do, can cut through that. It can reach people who would… — Daniel Alarcon Copy Share Image
You could ask: Why are people attracted to narratives that justify the terrible things that we're doing to the planet? Why are… — Charles Eisenstein Copy Share Image
“What the story does do, all it can do, is to transform us from readers into listeners, to whom 'a' voice speaks,… — E.M. Forster Copy Share Image
I think that the idea of boundaries is being challenged everywhere. And I think our fascination with sci-fi is that it is… — Jake Gyllenhaal Copy Share Image
[Polo Is My Life] is what's called a sex book - you know, sex, drugs and rock and roll. It's about the… — Hunter S. Thompson Copy Share Image
I've always really been interested in the Pygmalion myth and both what it has to say about creativity and what it has… — Zoe Kazan Copy Share Image
When I was shooting the film I did not see the story as an everyday tale or a social one. To a… — Andrey Zvyagintsev Copy Share Image
Many of the narratives can only tend to excite ideas the worst calculated for a female breast: Every thing is called plainly… — Matthew Lewis Copy Share Image
You have only so many chances to tell stories. I didn't want to be forever wedded to one form of storytelling when… — Michael Koryta Copy Share Image
Storytelling is the game. It's what we all do. It's why Nike is Nike, it's why Apple is Apple, it's why Walt… — Gary Vaynerchuk Copy Share Image
I think the big thing is the fairy tale. It's taking old folk fairy tales and retelling them in modern day. I… — Lily Collins Copy Share Image
I always thought great storytelling should seem spontaneous but also inevitable, like you would never expect it, but once it happens, it… — Fred Hechinger Copy Share Image
Myth and poetry represent a reservoir of vertical thinking, which we could also call longing and gratitude to ancestors. We need that… — Robert Bly Copy Share Image
“I love your stories. Tell me a story, Idgie. Go on, you old bee charmer. Tell me a good tall tale. Tell… — Fannie Flagg Copy Share Image
[Some people think] that storytelling is telling jokes. So they have to be discouraged! Then others think that storytelling-is like an encounter… — Doris Lessing Copy Share Image
“And it's just dawned on me that I might be the author of my own story, but so is everyone else the… — Jandy Nelson Copy Share Image
The important thing is to make a different world, to make a world that is not now. A real world, a genuine… — Sergio Leone Copy Share Image
Myths are so intimately bound to culture, time, and place that unless the symbols, the metaphors, are kept alive by constant recreation… — Joseph Campbell Copy Share Image
My mother was a reporter, and though she quit when they had kids, she still loved it. She told me about the… — Candace Camp Copy Share Image
Fairy tales have rules. You are a princess or you aren’t. You are pure at heart or you aren’t. If you are… — Richard Siken Copy Share Image
I make a living from storytelling - if you're a public person and you sing songs about getting married to get a… — Jens Lekman Copy Share Image
Everything has its cycle. I think it's appropriate for us to be ending now. But the beauty of storytelling, and the beauty… — Jennifer Beals Copy Share Image
I wanted the chance to look again at very famous stories and see what made them work well, whether there were any… — Philip Pullman Copy Share Image
After all, I believe that legends and myths are largely made of 'truth', and indeed present aspects of it that can only… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I love ghost stories. I remember when I was about 12, I read M. R. James' 'Ghost Stories Of An Antiquary' under… — Tom Goodman-Hill Copy Share Image
Without myth, however, every culture loses its healthy creative natural power: it is only a horizon encompassed with myth that rounds off… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
As an actor I can bring the story, the narrative in each performance. If I can't do that, then... might as well… — Kelvin Fletcher Copy Share Image
The key is to work with people who are passionate about storytelling and who have a similar sensibility of the type and… — Patrick Lussier Copy Share Image
“The prime motive was the desire of a tale-teller to try his hand at a really long story that would hold the… — J.R.R. Tolkien Copy Share Image
Storytelling has always been at the heart of being human because it serves some of our most basic needs: passing along our… — Parker J. Palmer Copy Share Image
The Tories are trying to lock the country into the old, dirty technologies that harm our communities and the people who are… — Barry Gardiner Copy Share Image
Fairy tales had been her first experience of the magical universe, and more than once she had wondered why people ended up… — Paulo Coelho Copy Share Image
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