William Wordsworth Quotes

Fiction is Truth's elder sister. Obviously. No one in the world knew what truth was till some one had told a story.

I dislike Allegory - the conscious and intentional allegory - yet any attempt to explain the purport of myth or fairytale must use allegorical language.

I love stories, I love myths, I love fairytales, I love Kafka.

It is the tale, not he who tells it.

All the truth in the world is held in stories.

Storytelling reveals meaning without committing the error of defining it.

To begin with, I want to tell a good story, a story that people will listen to and that they'll think this is true, even if it is a story that might be defined as - as myth or legend or even fanciful.

I like that 'once upon a time' quality, where the telling of a tale has an elevated sense of story. There's a whimsical quality to it. Sometimes in fairy tales more things seem possible, even though often they're real world based.

The story of Little Blue Riding Hood is true. Only the color has been changed to prevent an investigation.

I love fairy tales because I think that behind fairy tales, there is always a meaning.

People love a good story, even if it's a story that has very little truth to it.

For thousands of years, humans have used the art of storytelling to motivate and persuade.

A woman and a mouse, they carry a tale wherever they go.

At the centre of every fairy tale lay a truth that gave the story its power

The job of a storyteller is to tell stories, and I have concentrated on that obligation.

Stories only happen to those who are able to tell them.

Some truths are expressed best in the form of myth.

I'm an old storyteller. I tell the story. It's about the story.

Fairytales were maps formed of blood and hair and bones; they were the knots of the sub-conscious unwound. Every word in every tale was real and as true as apples and stones. They all led to the story inside the story.

They [Fairy Tales] are talking about real emotions, telling true stories, through the medium of metaphor. People used to understand metaphor better than I think we do now. But these stories are so potent, they refuse to die.

For every once upon a time there must be a story to follow, because if a story doesn't, something else will, and it might not be as harmless as a story.

If you have distance from the events, then your story can work as an analogy or parable rather than its literal narrative.

Whether in cave paintings or the latest uses of the Internet, human beings have always told their histories and truths through parable and fable. We are inveterate storytellers.

Storytelling isn't an Escher staircase.

To hell with facts! We need stories!