D. H. Lawrence Quotes

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.

I definitely read a lot of books on the psychology and mythology behind fairy tales because I think that's really fascinating and there's a lot to draw on there.

Humanity's legacy of stories and storytelling is the most precious we have. All wisdom is in our stories and songs. A story is how we construct our experiences. At the very simplest, it can be: 'He/she was born, lived, died.' Probably that is the template of our stories - a beginning, middle, and end. This structure is in our minds.

All myths that are something more than fancies gain rather than lose in value with time, by reason of the accretions of human experience.

Throughout the ages, stories with certain basic themes have recurred over and over, in widely disparate cultures; emerging like the goddess Venus from the sea of our unconscious.

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

Maybe stories are just data with a soul.

The greatest art in the world is the art of storytelling.

You're never going to kill storytelling, because it's built into the human plan. We come with it.

Storytelling is the important thing.

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.

There is something in human beings that loves stories.

Each time, storytellers clothed the naked body of the myth in their own traditions, so that listeners could relate more easily to its deeper meaning.

But myth is something else than an explanation of the world, of history, and of destiny.

We are made of the stories we have heard and read all through our lives.

For me, the short story is the depth of a novel, the breadth of a poem, and, as you come to the last few paragraphs, the experience of surprise.

I love studying folklore and legends. The stories that people passed down for a thousand years without any sort of marketing support are obviously saying something appealing about the basic human condition.

Humankind has been telling stories forever and will be telling stories forever.

I find increasingly that the more extreme are the things going on in your life, the more cultural reference points fail you. More mythical reference points actually help, and you realise that's what myths are for. It's for human beings to process their experience in extremis.

Stories always seem to get better with age.

Combine two words, Myth and History. What do you get? Mystery.

Film is just a different version of what we did round the campfire when we were Neanderthals. We tell stories so people can learn things and relativise things.

Apparently, the pathfinder duck is a psychological archetype in certain cultures.

The dead and past stories that I have told again in divers fashions, are not set down without authority.

I tell stories. That's what I do. I've always told stories.