Quotes About Stories

Indian mythology and its characters have always fascinated me and I find the antagonists especially very interesting.

People create the sort of myths they want to believe about themselves.

I am attracted to myths.

All great political families have myths: stories they tell themselves about how history happened.

There are so many myths about us.

Magazine stories, the best ones anyway, are generally a combination of three elements: access, narrative, and disclosure.

I'm quite interested in the absolute roots of narrative, why we tell stories at all: where the monsters come from.

Brands' products should be the manifestation of a company's values. Those values should be the subject of all sorts of wonderful stories that comprise your company's narrative.

I did try to write stories in college because I was interested in writing, and I was interested in the sound of language, but I was just no good at narrative and at fiction.

I think there are narratives going on all the time that we think of as tangential - up until they turn out to be deciding factors in our lives.

Stories and narratives are one of the most powerful things in humanity. They're devices for dealing with the chaotic danger of existence.

African narratives in the West, they proliferate. I really don't care anymore. I'm more interested in the stories we tell about ourselves - how, as a writer, I find that African writers have always been the curators of our humanity on this continent.

I was an English-literature major, and that's all about stories and narratives.

I create fictional narratives, but it's based on literal people.

I'm very interested in foundational narratives.

As human beings, we are all not conducting just one narrative but many narratives all at the same time.

We're all building our narratives in our heads.

Everybody's always living in fiction just as much as children, but the way our stories are faked is curtailed by all sorts of narratives we take into our own lives about what are the true narratives and what's not.

The slave narratives, there is a wealth of research there, because you are hearing stories from the first person account, and that's a whole different thing than reading about it in the history books. You're able to really personalize it.

Children tell themselves stories, engage in self-delusion and fantasy, but those narratives are more evolving than calcified - and with that malleability comes both freedom and danger.

I'm a fan of classic romance films as well as screwball comedies. I think love stories are just compelling narratives.

We gravitated to the idea of social entrepreneurs when it was a fairly nascent thing. We began to build the organization, focused on investing in and celebrating social entrepreneurs. Not long after that, we realized there was another opportunity to help bring them together and tell their stories.

My dad was a doctor, and he would tell us a lot of nasty, funny stories from the hospital. It was funny to me when I'd go over to other people's houses and they didn't talk about intestines at the table.

To us, basing stories on christianity is the same as basing stories on Roman mythology, Native American folklore, or unsubstantiated government conspiracies.