“A myth is an unverifiable and typically fantastic story that is nonethless felt to be true and that deal with a theme… — John Bierhorst Copy Share Image
“Liberation is always in part a storytelling process: breaking stories, breaking silences, making new stories. A free person tells her own story.… — Rebecca Solnit Copy Share Image
Stories took twists and turns down fairy-tale paths or down very human everyday ones. You think you’re at the end of the… — Deb Caletti Copy Share Image
We have in our head something called story grammar. We see the world as a series of episodes rather than logical propositions...… — Daniel H. Pink Copy Share Image
Tale as old as time, true as it may be. Barely even friends, then somebody bends unexpectedly. Just a little change, small… — Beauty And The Beast Copy Share Image
“All stories in which children have adventures and successes which are possible, in the sense that they do not break the laws… — Joe Rigney Copy Share Image
So we make stories of our own, in fevered and envious imitation of our Maker, hoping that we'll tell, by chance, what… — Clive Barker Copy Share Image
I think there is much more storytelling in stand-up now. Less emphasis on the joke. Jokes are still important, but it feels… — Doug Benson Copy Share Image
I think, in some ways, that is the balm of stories, of fables, of tales: it's the way we're wired. We have… — Debra Granik Copy Share Image
I think there's a great storytelling tradition in the restaurant business that tends to attract people with an oral tradition of bulls… — Anthony Bourdain Copy Share Image
“All fairy tales, Tolkien argued, echo the gospel of Jesus Christ in some way because the gospel is the True Story; it’s… — Sarah Arthur Copy Share Image
“People who don’t construe their life and don’t frame their own tale, stay on the sidelines, remain only an act without a… — Erik Pevernagie Copy Share Image
We talked to a lot of filmmakers who had worked on other anthologies and we looked at every anthology, and we wanted… — Mike Mendez Copy Share Image
The most amazing thing for me is that every single person who sees a movie, not necessarily one of my movies, brings… — Steven Spielberg Copy Share Image
What is becoming more interesting than the myths themselves has been the study of how the myths were constructed from sparse or… — Arthur C. Clarke Copy Share Image
I see manuscripts and books that are spoiled for the literary reader because they are one long stream of top-of-the-head writing, a… — Sol Stein Copy Share Image
I knew how to write like an academic, so I knew how to write academic papers and essays and things. But the… — Tara Westover Copy Share Image
We believed the fairy tales we told our children and we loved them beyond reason even when we were green and bungling… — Marlena De Blasi Copy Share Image
Here's an important thing about all storytelling that young people, especially Millennials, don't understand - you need a third act. — Gavin McInnes Copy Share Image
“It is interesting that the worst retellings of traditional fairy tales are those that heavy-handedly take the step of making a moral… — Isobelle Carmody Copy Share Image
Storybook endings, fairy tales coming true. Deep down inside we want to believe they still do. In our secretest heart, it's our… — Carrie Underwood Copy Share Image
We do not enjoy a story fully at the first reading. Not till the curiosity, the sheer narrative lust, has been given… — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
What is the consequent effect on a society of beings looking for themselves in the myths on the screen? It's safe to… — Weyes Blood Copy Share Image
It's main storytelling hell because it's really hard to keep a secret. It's really hard to not communicate. But I think that's… — Brian Wayne Peterson Copy Share Image
As the Tories know, the problem with setting yourself up as a shining example for others to follow is that when you… — Jo Brand Copy Share Image
With Storytelling, at least, it's explicit: this is what the censors say American citizens, no matter what age, are not permitted to… — Todd Solondz Copy Share Image
Sometimes I think on television, you use maybe a tenth of what you are able to do. So it's nice to go,… — Sarah Paulson Copy Share Image
“The more stories I study, the more I begin to suspect that there is only one story, and that we are, all… — J. Aleksandr Wootton Copy Share Image
“Mere grimness is as easy as grinning; but it requires something to put a handsome face on a story. Narratives become of… — Leigh Hunt Copy Share Image
I'm endlessly intrigued by stories, and I love helping someone to formulate his or her story. I can drift off when I'm… — Andrew Solomon Copy Share Image
This is a bad story.” “Sorry. I’m really sorry. I shouldn’t have told you.” “No, you should,” I say. “But—” “I don’t… — Emma Donoghue Copy Share Image
The future of cinema and communications is all about collaboration and the decentralized control of storytelling. We're all part of the story;… — Adrian Grenier Copy Share Image
“I am thus led to the proposition that there is no fiction or nonfiction as we commonly understand the distinction: there is… — E.L. Doctorow Copy Share Image
What flows into you from myth is not truth but reality (truth is always about something, but reality is that about which… — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
“Fairy tales are just true stories that humans have chosen not to believe in any more. Besides, this is Myths and Legends… — Stacie Simpson Copy Share Image
The only thing that's different about doing a superhero show is that you can have your hero do things that a normal… — Cheo Hodari Coker Copy Share Image
The Wheel of Time turns, and Ages come and pass, leaving memories that become legend. Legend fades to myth, and even myth… — Robert Jordan Copy Share Image
Fairy tales since the beginning of recorded time, and perhaps earlier, have been “a means to conquer the terrors of mankind through… — Jack Zipes Copy Share Image
Even 'Piku' was quite an experiment in terms of storytelling because on the surface nothing happens in the film. If you ask… — Shoojit Sircar Copy Share Image
Somehow the Tories have deflected the righteous anger at the bankers who we bailed out. The Tories manage to take that outrage… — Bill Bailey Copy Share Image