There were hundreds of them spread across the floor, each telling its own tale of triumph or sadness, each letter representing a… — Cecelia Ahern Copy Share Image
We live in our tales of ourselves, she thought, and ignore as best we can the contradictions, and the lapses, and the… — Gregory Maguire Copy Share Image
Fiction is based on reality unless you're a fairy-tale artist, you have to get your knowledge of life from somewhere. You have… — Hunter S. Thompson Copy Share Image
I keep thinking about a tale my nurse used to read to me about a bird whose wings are pinned to the… — Shannon Hale Copy Share Image
The protagonist of folktale is always, and intensely, a young person moving through ordeals into adult life. . . . and this… — Jill Paton Walsh Copy Share Image
The media will spend weeks going through pay stubs for Bush's National Guard service in Alabama in the waning days of war,… — Ann Coulter Copy Share Image
They were written on cheap blue notebooks bought by poor women. I'm interested in folk tales in the way that medicine and… — Alice Hoffman Copy Share Image
The Unfortunate Importance of Beauty is a farcical fictional meditation on female beauty structured as a mash-up of an old episode of… — Maureen Corrigan Copy Share Image
I cannot bear not to know the end of a tale. I will read the most trivial things – once commenced –… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Taking his time, as though he has all of it in the world, in the universe, from the days when tales meant… — Erin Morgenstern Copy Share Image
“What I mean is, all the terrible things that happen in fairy tales seem real. Or not real, but genuine. Life is… — Polly Shulman Copy Share Image
Kids know they can't make it alone, yet at the same time, built into each one of us, is a survival ethic.… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
Ever since ROME, OPEN CITY, I have maintained a conscious, determined endeavor to try to understand the world in which I live,… — Roberto Rossellini Copy Share Image
...the tale that's told for no other reason but companionship, which is another (and my favorite) definition of literature, the tale that's… — Jack Kerouac Copy Share Image
We sleep to time's hurdy-gurdy; we wake, if ever we wake, to the silence of God. And then, when we wake to… — Annie Dillard Copy Share Image
I had always been a great talker and teller of tales. 'You should put a lock on that tongue of yours. It's… — Kate Forsyth Copy Share Image
Wise men read very sharply all your private history in your look and gait and behavior. The whole economy of nature is… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Great works - and I think Star Wars is a great work - are easily susceptible to multiple plausible interpretations. Some of… — Cass Sunstein Copy Share Image
I don't feel any shame I won't apologize if there ain't nowhere you can go running away from pain when you've been… — Billie Joe Armstrong Copy Share Image
Surely I'm not the only person to ask the obvious question: How different, really, is Mr. Madoff's tale from the story of… — Paul Krugman Copy Share Image
It's no accident that Cinderella has been in the culture for thousands of years, and in cross cultures. I've traveled a bit… — Kenneth Branagh Copy Share Image
'Tis an old tale, and often told; But did my fate and wish agree, Ne'er had been read, in story old, Of… — Walter Scott Copy Share Image
A curious thing about atrocity stories is that they mirror, instead of the events they purport to describe, the extent of the… — John Dos Passos Copy Share Image
Jokes spread around the world and embed themselves in our shared culture; the most resonant of them get lodged in the language… — Jimmy Carr Copy Share Image
His heart danced upon her movements like a cork upon a tide. He heard what her eyes said to him from beneath… — James Joyce Copy Share Image
People who are upset about something ruminate on it whenever they get a chance; they are constantly drawn back to their own… — Emile Chartier Copy Share Image
I took lots of photographs and had planned to write a treatise on how it worked, but I quickly got bored with… — Kit Williams Copy Share Image
We must live in the radiance of tomorrow, as our ancestors have suggested in their tales. For what is yet to come… — Ishmael Beah Copy Share Image
Oh, can I really believe the poet's tales, that when one first sees the object of one's love, one imagines one has… — Soren Kierkegaard Copy Share Image
I often visit Maria Tatar's 'The Grimm Reader' for a cold dose of courage. Her translations come from the Brothers Grimm, whose… — Kate Bernheimer Copy Share Image
There in seclusion and remote from men The wizard hand lies cold, Which at its topmost speed let fall the pen, And… — Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Copy Share Image
If you don't recount your family history, it will be lost. Honor your own stories and tell them too. The tales may… — Madeleine L'Engle Copy Share Image
A tale is told of a man in Paris during the upheaval in 1948, who saw a friend marching after a crowd… — Abbott Lawrence Lowell Copy Share Image
Each of us has been designed for one of two immortal functions, as either a storyteller or as a cross-legged listener to… — Bryce Courtenay Copy Share Image
I have tried (I am not sure how successfully) to write plain tales. I dare not say they are simple; there is… — Jorge Luis Borges Copy Share Image
I like that 'once upon a time' quality, where the telling of a tale has an elevated sense of story. There's a… — Erin Morgenstern Copy Share Image
I'm not born again, I'm not Kabbalah, God forbid, but I did have an experience hitting 30 that I needed to lean… — Rufus Wainwright Copy Share Image
My conscience hath a thousand several tongues, And every tongue brings in a several tale, And every tale condemns me for a… — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
You look hot. The straight men will want you, the gay men will want beauty tips, and the women will want to… — Zoey Dean Copy Share Image
I don't think you ever outgrow your love for things that are bigger than life and more colorful than the average life.… — Stan Lee Copy Share Image
