Is there anything more tedious than the often repeated tales of the old and forgetful? — Charles Caleb Colton Copy Share Image
There was a place in childhood that I remember well, And there a voice of sweetest tone bright fairy tales did tell. — Samuel Lover Copy Share Image
I have always been fascinated by the supernatural elements in stories, whether fairy tales, myths, film or literature. — Trudi Canavan Copy Share Image
I can tell you all kinds of moral tales, but fashion and reality are vaguely different. — Karl Lagerfeld Copy Share Image
That means life itself is a fairy tale. Like the characters, we all live and love and search for a happily-ever-after. — Gena Showalter Copy Share Image
The world of religion isn't a logical world; that's why children like it. It's a world of worked-out fantasies, very similar to… — Yehuda Amichai Copy Share Image
I know there are epic tales of romance, where love means you're supposed to die. Where it's all about sacrifice. But I… — David Levithan Copy Share Image
A politician's record is like a tin kettle to a dog's tale - it's a noisy appendage, wich makes the dog conspicuous… — David Ross Locke Copy Share Image
ONE BLOOD is a richly detailed, intricately woven tale rendered in lush, evocative prose. This memorable debut heralds Qwantu Amaru as a… — Brandon Massey Copy Share Image
If you read folklore and mythology, any kind of myths, any kind of tall tales, running is always associated with freedom and… — Christopher McDougall Copy Share Image
“Writing tales of horror makes it hard to convince people that I'm a nice, gentle person. I love rainbows and wildflowers and… — Diane Hoh Copy Share Image
Fairy tales, because they have a very clear structure, are easier to interfere with. Also they have this really weird logic: the… — Helen Oyeyemi Copy Share Image
Actually, the true story of a person's life can never be written. It is beyond the power of literature. The full tale… — Isaac Bashevis Singer Copy Share Image
There's no limit to what you can dream. You expect the unexpected, you believe in magic, in fairy tales, and in possibilities.… — Cecelia Ahern Copy Share Image
Fantasy is, at its best, the purest access to storytelling that we have. It universalizes a tale, it evokes wonder and timeless… — Guy Gavriel Kay Copy Share Image
Operating-room errors hold a special terror for patients, if only because they seem like the most avoidable kind of complications. The occasional… — Jeffrey Kluger Copy Share Image
I had become so quiet and so small in the grass by the pond that I was barely noticeable, hardly there. I… — Richard Brautigan Copy Share Image
“Fairy tales are about trouble, about getting into and out of it, and trouble seems to be a necessary stage on the… — Rebecca Solnit Copy Share Image
They stood brow to brow, brown to white, black to black, he supporting her elbows, she playing her limp light fingers over… — Vladimir Mayakovsky Copy Share Image
The therapist can interpret, advise, provide the emotional acceptance and support that nurtures personal growth, and above all, he can listen. I… — Sheldon B. Kopp Copy Share Image
There have been brilliant satires about the tax bureaucracy before, from the Beatles song ‘The Taxman’ to the film ‘Harry’s War,’ but… — John Fund Copy Share Image
If asked to list my ten favorite American fiction writers, Gail Godwin would be among them. In this, her latest . .… — Ned Rorem Copy Share Image
Captain Cook discovered Australia looking for the Terra Incognita. Christopher Columbus thought he was finding India but discovered America. History is full… — Umberto Eco Copy Share Image
I don't know where my romanticism comes from. My mom and dad would read to me a lot. 'Treasure Island,' 'Robinson Crusoe,'… — Daniel Radcliffe Copy Share Image
They were still all beautiful and there was still enchantment and wonder, but she had crossed a line and now the fairy… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
Kate Bernheimer's fiction offers a unique and delicate gift, the tempting mirage of a grace that constantly escapes. The Complete Tales of… — Lydia Millet Copy Share Image
There's a long history of anthropomorphic animals in Japanese literature. The so-called 'funny animal scrolls' were the first narratives in Japanese history,… — Stan Sakai Copy Share Image
“There are tales that rise like the early sun, breathe, and take on a life of their own. There are ones that… — Edwin Fontanez Copy Share Image
Fairy tales were not my escape from reality as a child; rather, they were my reality -- for mine was a world… — Terri Windling Copy Share Image
Both 'Consenting Adults' and 'Glengarry Glen Ross' revolve around the economic stresses of the '90s. They are about what people do when… — Kevin Spacey Copy Share Image
There seems to be a real taste for the fantastical these days. People like to get back into their imaginations. Maybe there's… — Sasha Roiz Copy Share Image
Bare Foot Folk and is full of really interesting songs, Ange Hardy takes folk tales and creates new folk songs that sound… — Mike Harding Copy Share Image
“Ever since Eliza had discovered the book of fairy tales . . . had disappeared inside its faded pages, she'd understood the… — Kate Morton Copy Share Image
There is no sadder tale in the annals of architecture than the virtual disappearance of the defining architectural form of the Modern… — Martin Filler Copy Share Image
There are constant cycles in history. There is loss, but it is always followed by regeneration. The tales of our elders who… — Carmen Agra Deedy Copy Share Image
All the atoms of our bodies will be blown into space in the disintegration of the solar system, to live on forever… — Carolyn Porco Copy Share Image
In kindergarten that used to be my job, to tell them fairytales. I liked Hans Christian Andersen, and the Grimm fairy tales,… — Francis Ford Coppola Copy Share Image
When I examine myself and my methods of thought, I come to the conclusion that the gift of fantasy has meant more… — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
“A closed book will lie there like a dead horse. But an open book will kick, buck, and bolt through perceived adventures… — Richelle E. Goodrich Copy Share Image
“I often forget that other people's stories aren't simply introductions to my own more engaging, more dramatic, more relevant, and better-told tales,… — Will Schwalbe Copy Share Image
