I think it is beyond doubt that H. P. Lovecraft has yet to be surpassed as the twentieth century's greatest practitioner of… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
It was not a happy ending of the sort in fairy tales, but it was the only one we had. — Megan Hart Copy Share Image
Things need not have happened to be true. Tales and adventures are the shadow truths that will endure when mere facts are… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
“RETURN TO TENDER Our aging parents deserve the same loving care they gave us in infancy Kamil Ali” — Kamil Ali Copy Share Image
Fairy-tales aren't just about finding handsome princes. They're about fulfilling your dreams and standing up for what you believe in. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I am extremely close to my brother, Kent, and my sister, Lauren, who have been remarkably understanding about all of my weird… — Karen Russell Copy Share Image
“Your life have to be filled with interesting tales that it should not bore your grandchildren, when you tell them someday.” — Pradeepa Pandiyan Copy Share Image
So, I subscribe to the following reading: Star Wars is an essentially Christian tale. — Cass Sunstein Copy Share Image
I'm reading Barnaby Rudge, one of the less well-known Dickens novels. I've been a life-long lover of Charles Dickens ever since I… — George Brandis Copy Share Image
I liked that sort of thing, those one-off stories like 'Tales of the Unexpected,' 'Hammer House of Horror,' 'The Twilight Zone' and… — Charlie Brooker Copy Share Image
Only - only that, if you believe the tales, it's in the nature of our people to go to war and to… — Juliet Marillier Copy Share Image
Folk tales are my favourite form of story telling. They not only just adjust the reader according to the world it is… — Shweta Basu Prasad Copy Share Image
I don't think that we necessarily lie. I mean, we make our living by pretending that we're someone else. I don't tell… — Albert Finney Copy Share Image
Guy Rivers, a conventional piece as regards the love affair which makes a part of the plot, is a tale of deadly… — Carl Clinton Van Doren Copy Share Image
I wake each day and try to see what I might do that is of some value and joy. It's a strange… — Kent Haruf Copy Share Image
Once upon a time fairy tales were told to audiences of young and old alike. It is only in the last century… — Terri Windling Copy Share Image
The Wikks are regular kids given a Galactic size challenge. Readers will follow Oliver, Tiffany, and twins, Mason and Austin as they… — Wayne Thomas Batson Copy Share Image
Evil isn't beautiful on its own. You know?' 'Well, good people are sometimes ugly-' Blanche said at last. 'I don't know about… — Regina Doman Copy Share Image
As in 'The Three Billy Goats Gruff'?" The skull howled with laughter. "You just got your ass handed to you by a… — Jim Butcher Copy Share Image
He reads histories and mythologies and fairy tales, wondering why it seems that only girls are ever swept away from their mundane… — Erin Morgenstern Copy Share Image
If we assiduously cultivate our powers of exaggeration, perhaps we, too, shall obtain the Paradise of Liars. And there Raphael shall paint… — James Branch Cabell Copy Share Image
Most Muggles lived in a world defined by the limits of what you could do with cars and telephones. Even though Muggle… — Eliezer Yudkowsky Copy Share Image
The suffering and calamity are, moreover, exceptional. They befall a conspicuous person. They are themselves of some striking kind. They are also,… — A. C. Bradley Copy Share Image
As I obsess about my ancient problems, I feel more like I'm sinking in quicksand than lighting a torch. I'm creating neither… — Martha Beck Copy Share Image
The wider the author's arsenal of tools and the better technically equipped the storyteller is, the better the tale will be. — Carlos Ruiz Zafon Copy Share Image
No love-story has ever been told twice. I never heard any tale of lovers that did not seem to me as new… — Eleanor Farjeon Copy Share Image
If to some my tale seems foolishness I am content that such could count me fool. — Sophocles Copy Share Image
I like being scared, so I've always liked fairy tales because they're kind of creepy. — Lana Parrilla Copy Share Image
For nearly 3,500 years Exodus has left such an imprint on people's memories that I cannot imagine it had been invented just… — Elie Wiesel Copy Share Image
Fairy tales and folk tales have always played a role in my writing in one way or another. — Linn Ullmann Copy Share Image
Contrary to what many may think, immortality is not a fairy tale invented to compensate for an unhappy life. — Stephen R. Lawhead Copy Share Image
Great heroes need great sorrows and burdens, or half their greatness goes unnoticed. It is all part of the fairy tale. — Peter S. Beagle Copy Share Image
These are characters in a fairy tale for grown-ups. Wouldn't it be lovely? Yes. — Diane Arbus Copy Share Image
“All good tales are true tales, at least for those who read them, which is all that counts.” — Javier Cercas Copy Share Image
I do not know the meaning of my sadness; there is an old fairy tale that I cannot get out of my… — Heinrich Heine Copy Share Image
I am very much interested in fairy tales. I guess that most of the films I like to do have this kind… — Lucile Hadzihalilovic Copy Share Image
I foresee that the Andersen and Fairy Tale fashion will not last; none of these things away from general nature do. — Mary Russell Mitford Copy Share Image
The biggest awakening is the awakening from the childish deceptions and the invented tales of the religion. — Mehmet Murat Ildan Copy Share Image
Never tell tales about a woman. No matter how far away she is, shell always hear you. — Bryan Brown Copy Share Image
Soon as the evening shades prevail, The moon takes up the wondrous tale, And nightly to the listening earth Repeats the story… — Joseph Addison Copy Share Image
