Always Quote by Italo Calvino

The job of a storyteller is to speak the truth. But what we feel most deeply can’t be spoken in words alone. At this…

— Alan Garner

Wherever a story comes from, whether it is a familiar myth or a private memory, the retelling exemplifies the making of a connection from…

— Mary Catherine Bateson

Word, image, and sound all must have primacy in the development of the narrative.

— Fred Ritchin

The metaphors exist for the stories.

— Kurt Busiek

Literature is conscious mythology: as society develops, its mythical stories become structural principles of story-telling, its mythical concepts, sun-gods and the like, become habits…

— Northrop Frye

Stories are told over time, and so they naturally accrue meanings.

— John Edgar Wideman

A picture can tell a thousand words, Pbut a few words can change its story.

— Anonymous

We tell ourselves stories in order to live. We live entirely by the impression of a narrative line upon disparate images, the shifting phantasmagoria,…

— Joan Didion

“...a novel, like a myth or any great work of art, can become an initiation that helps us to make a painful rite of…

— Karen Armstrong

A story is the relationship that you develop between who you are, or who you potentially are, and the infinite world.

— Shekhar Kapur

Try to reach for a simple, visual phrase that tells you what the picture is all about and evokes the essence of the story

— Saul Bass

“This is called the theory of narrative causality and it means that a story, once started, takes a shape. It picks up all the…

— Terry Pratchett