Why should a horror film be just a horror film? To me, The Company of Wolves is a fairy tale; it's got… — Neil Jordan Copy Share Image
Creating one single story often requires experimenting and planning and falling on your literary rear more than once before you find the… — Nancy Lam Copy Share Image
Just as Hanukkah candles are lighted one by one from a single flame, so the tale of the miracle is passed from… — Judah Leon Magnes Copy Share Image
Violence has been a part of storytelling forever and there's obviously a reason for it. Fairy tales are really violent, the original… — Jane Levy Copy Share Image
I love the stories of changelings and the thought that the Fey were these ancient, capricious creatures who were tricky and dangerous.… — Julie Kagawa Copy Share Image
Blest be those feasts, with simple plenty crowned, Where all the ruddy family around Laugh at the jests or pranks that never… — Oliver Goldsmith Copy Share Image
Love in the real world doesn’t usually work out the way stories make us think it should. We don’t always get fairy-tale… — Richelle Mead Copy Share Image
There's no such thing as fairy tales. it does not exist in reality. . . but there is always a happy ending.… — Caryll Amoyan Copy Share Image
“Stories have changed, my dear boy,”the man in the grey suit says, his voice almost imperceptibly sad. “There are no more battles… — Erin Morgenstern Copy Share Image
Birdscapes moves rather like those swallows, dipping and swerving to pick up all sorts of items of interest. Mynott tells plenty of… — Robert O. Paxton Copy Share Image
One day he said, "I'll tell this town How it feels to be an unfunny clown." And he told them all why… — Shel Silverstein Copy Share Image
Chyerti—that’s us, demons and devils, small and big—are compulsive. We obsess. It’s our nature. We turn on a track, around and around;… — Catherynne M. Valente Copy Share Image
Ever heard of anyone executed for distributing copies of Grimm's fairy tales? Imagine people trying to smuggle copies of Hans Christian Andersen's… — Eric Metaxas Copy Share Image
Folklore, legends, myths and fairy tales have followed childhood through the ages, for every healthy youngster has a wholesome and instinctive love… — L. Frank Baum Copy Share Image
There is only one princess in the Disney tales, one girl who gets to be exalted. Princesses may confide in a sympathetic… — Peggy Orenstein Copy Share Image
It sounds cheesy but I think my life's kinda like a fairy tale. I worked really hard, but I'm very, very lucky… — Hilary Duff Copy Share Image
I think people are interested in anything that's a little bigger than life and that's colorful and - you know, what they… — Stan Lee Copy Share Image
I had read a Tale of Two Cities and found it up to my standards as a romantic novel. She opened the… — Maya Angelou Copy Share Image
The Long and the Short and the Tall made a great impression on me because it was a very ugly tale about… — Timothy West Copy Share Image
Fairy tale does not deny the existence of sorrow and failure: the possibility of these is necessary to the joy of deliverance.… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“For the others, it was still just a tale, like all the tales we told, night by night, tales comical and strange,… — Juliet Marillier Copy Share Image
[As of November 17, 2006] 'Noelle's Treasure Tale' has remained at No. 3 on the New York Times children's best seller list… — Gloria Estefan Copy Share Image
Pure poetry in motion. A swift-moving, heartfelt tale of love and loss, two stories intersecting-an d connecting-by magic. Michelle Baker is a… — Trent Zelazny Copy Share Image
The fact that fairy tales remain a literary underdog-undervalued and undermined-even as they shape so many popular stories, redoubles my certainty that… — Kate Bernheimer Copy Share Image
It wasn't until I was an adult reader that I began to fathom the influence of fairy tales on writers I was… — Kate Bernheimer Copy Share Image
The framed tale is, in my opinion, one of the most natural ways to tell a story. If you think of it,… — Patrick Rothfuss Copy Share Image
Because of my capacity for listening to strangers' tales, or the details of their lives, my patience with their food and their… — Paul Theroux Copy Share Image
Well — when I write my book, and tell the tale Of my adventures — all these little stars That shake out… — Cyrano de Bergerac Copy Share Image
Hello, I'm Leonard Nimoy. The following tale of alien encounters is true. By true I mean false. It's all lies. But they're… — Leonard Nimoy Copy Share Image
In the fairy tale, an incomprehensible happiness rests upon an incomprehensible condition. A box is opened and all evils fly out. A… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Those evening bells! those evening bells! How many a tale their music tells Of youth and home, and that sweet time When… — Charles Lamb Copy Share Image
How I keep trying to force our story into a fairy tale, but from the beginning, it's been more like a nursery… — Shannon Hale Copy Share Image
No one can mock your meagre achievements or inability to accomplish the simplest of tasks, if they remain figments of your imagination.… — Chris Murray Copy Share Image
It's hard to believe that these self-centered people have nuclear weapons that they can fire at any moment. Even modern wars are… — Jay Roach Copy Share Image
I've always had a keen sense of history. My father was an antiques dealer and he used to bring home boxes full… — Sara Sheridan Copy Share Image
It won't happen yet, Ellen mused, mashing cooked carrots for Jill's lunch. Breakups seldom do. It will unfold slowly, one little tell-tale… — Sylvia Plath Copy Share Image
Tamerlan Tsarnaev is telling no tales. The older of the two brothers who committed the Boston Marathon bombings was likely the one… — Jeffrey Kluger Copy Share Image
Children are not deceived by fairy-tales; they are often and gravely deceived by school-stories. Adults are not deceived by science-fiction ; they… — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
Brendan O’Meara’s Six Weeks in Saratoga is a victory to be savored by those who treasure good writing in general and tales… — Madeleine Blais Copy Share Image
In 1992, fans of our feline temptress got another chance to sink their claws into the new and exciting tales of Catwoman… — Eartha Kitt Copy Share Image
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