What interests me about fiction is plot. And what interests me about plot is whether someone tells a story that moves me… — Malcolm Gladwell Copy Share Image
I've been interested in writing and storytelling since I learned to read, but it wasn't until I read Dylan Thomas, when I… — Jay McInerney Copy Share Image
We lay out our lives in a narrative we understand, like a movie, but are you enjoying making it or are you… — Donald Glover Copy Share Image
“My hearts been fleeting up so high,I'm longing for the leaps of the day & heaps of the night to pace my… — Madhushree Das Copy Share Image
All love stories are tales of beginnings. When we talk about falling in love, we go to the beginning, to pinpoint the… — Meghan O'Rourke Copy Share Image
'The Last Of Us,' to me, is just amazing storytelling, because everything's from the character point of view, which even movies don't… — Felicia Day Copy Share Image
“Myth is the isthmus which connects the peninsular world of thought with that vast continent we really belong to. It is not,… — C.S. Lewis Copy Share Image
Whether one likes it or not, the screen is a profoundly important source of imagery and storytelling for this generation. For me,… — Graeme Base Copy Share Image
All my life Ive made up fairy tales of my prince charming. Countless Cinderella stories that helped make my fairy tale a… — Reezy Copy Share Image
Audiences will see what they want to see. Some will come out, hopefully enjoying two hours of action. Some people will find… — Colin Farrell Copy Share Image
“In one of these tales, ‘The Ascetic’, the title character tells his interlocutor that paradises and nirvanas are ‘illusions inside other illusions.… — Fernando Pessoa Copy Share Image
Growing up in Ireland, there never seemed to be the notion that children should be seen and not heard. We all looked… — Maeve Binchy Copy Share Image
I remember how as I kid I would love stories of every kind - whether they were narrated in school or what… — Tahir Raj Bhasin Copy Share Image
“But, said Lewis, myths are lies, even though lies breathed through silver. No, said Tolkien, they are not. ...just as speech is… — Humphrey Carpenter Copy Share Image
Myth is a tale once believed as truth; believed, it is not myth, but religion. A tale once religiously believed that has… — Laura Riding Copy Share Image
“There will always be reservations, things one must leave out, events one can’t explain without handing over a full map of one’s… — Colm Tóibín Copy Share Image
(Propaganda) proceeds by psychological manipulations, character modifications, by creation of stereotypes useful when the time comes - The two great routes that… — Jacques Ellul Copy Share Image
My inspiration is my life, what I see happening around me. It can be history and, quite often, plain traditional fairy tales.… — Michel Ocelot Copy Share Image
I think from an early age I was aware of how a camera can tell a story, how a movie camera can… — Brian Selznick Copy Share Image
Myths have a certain staying power because, really, they are aspirational - not always who we are, but always who we want… — Richard Cohen Copy Share Image
This is not a story of heroic feats, or merely the narrative of a cynic; at least I do not mean it… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“A fairy tale with a twisted ending, one in which the sun sets like napalm on the prince and princess as they… — Laura Kasischke Copy Share Image
And I don't mean that the storytelling that's out there shouldn't be happening. I just feel like that there's this huge imbalance… — Michael Landon, Jr Copy Share Image
I think in some ways, you end up with more interesting storytelling with series, because if you've written yourself into a corner… — Sarah Pinborough Copy Share Image
“Truly, there is magic in fairy tales. For it takes but a simply-uttered 'Once upon a time...' to allure and spellbind an… — Richelle E. Goodrich Copy Share Image
My father leaving the family shaped who I was and how I looked at the world. By the same token, my father… — Kate DiCamillo Copy Share Image
The unsparing savagery of stories like the Robber Bridegroom is a sharp reminder that fairy tales belong to the childhood of culture… — Maria Tatar Copy Share Image
I love storytelling, I love being a visual person, and it just made perfect sense to be an underwater photographer and explore… — Brian Skerry Copy Share Image
As long as you still have one bridge left, nothing is lost. But from the moment that you cannot even understand the… — Paulo Coelho Copy Share Image
Your job as a writer is to find storylines, narrative structures, and characters to show the things that you believe rather than… — Philipp Meyer Copy Share Image
You have to be a ruthless editor of your own prose. Over the years, I've learned that the best way to incorporate… — Sara Paretsky Copy Share Image
With movies and TV, storytelling, it's a different medium. I really love it, but I'm one part of many, many pieces of… — Juliette Lewis Copy Share Image
The thing that I love about working at 'GMA' the most is the storytelling - there are so many different genres on… — Jesse Palmer Copy Share Image
Pilots are useful. You just learn things during a pilot - the piece of casting that just wasn't right or things about… — Kevin Reilly Copy Share Image
I'm as much a victim of the romantic myth of 'getting away' as anyone else. My head tells me it's myth, but… — Sydney Pollack Copy Share Image
I don't know if anything I write will endure, but I do try to write it as a narrative that will not… — Jonathan Kozol Copy Share Image
I think that it's important for a film that's in 3D that the filmmakers create the movie from a staging and scene… — Christopher Meledandri Copy Share Image
My role in the government was not to think about narratives and consistency with narratives, but think of the human consequences of… — Cass Sunstein Copy Share Image
I wrote a great deal of a novel, 'Winter's Tale,' on the roof of a Brooklyn Heights tenement on Henry Street. I… — Mark Helprin Copy Share Image
There [in The Kite Runner] certainly are, as is always the case with fiction, autobiographical elements woven through the narrative. — Khaled Hosseini Copy Share Image