And the people listened, and their faces were quiet with listening. The story tellers, gathering attention into their tales, spoke in great… — John Steinbeck Copy Share Image
Breathes life into a vital but oft-neglected chapter of our history. Amy Belding Brown has turned an authentic drama of Indian captivity… — Eliot Pattison Copy Share Image
Robert Zubrin’s masterful study…makes for riveting reading. . a cautionary tale of what happens when powerful, unprincipled elites are not only alienated… — Steven W. Mosher Copy Share Image
“Now and then they would tell old legends and fairy tales about the castle, the way people always do about old castles.… — Mechthild Gläser Copy Share Image
Why the fairy tale of Willie Mays making a brilliant World Series catch, and then dashing off to play stickball in the… — Ernie Harwell Copy Share Image
Tell the story that's been growing in your heart, the characters you can't keep out of your head, the tale story that… — Jennifer Weiner Copy Share Image
I was excited to discover, in this tale by Eliade, the key themes that I most hope to understand better - time,… — Francis Ford Coppola Copy Share Image
I understood that the stories we believe have power over us. They work into our bodies and minds and change us from… — Danielle Trussoni Copy Share Image
I'm removed in my real life, and unable to express certain things face to face. So I have always found myself in… — Jenny Lewis Copy Share Image
I've been reading Peter Straub since I was a teenager, and his work is hardwired into my brain. A Dark Matter contains… — Dan Chaon Copy Share Image
The theater is a baffling business, and a shockingly wasteful one when you consider that people who have proven their worth, who… — Ilka Chase Copy Share Image
Home is a blueprint of memory...Finding home is crucial to the act of writing. Begin here. With what you know. With the… — Georgia Heard Copy Share Image
The wise old fairy tales never were so silly as to say that the prince and the princess lived peacefully ever afterwards.… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
It has always been a happy thought to me that the creek runs on all night, new every minute, whether I wish… — Annie Dillard Copy Share Image
Legends of the Silver Stallion had been told for years now, whenever mountain stockmen met round the campfires or on the winding… — Elyne Mitchell Copy Share Image
Infuriatingly stupid analysts - especially people who called themselves Arabists, yet who seemed to know next to nothing about the reality of… — Ayaan Hirsi Ali Copy Share Image
It's only in fairy tales that princesses can afford to wait for the handsome prince to save them. In real life, they… — Meg Cabot Copy Share Image
Most memoirs about alcoholism, promiscuity, and addiction are deep, sobering tales full of scars that will never heal and include alarming statistics… — Kate Madison Copy Share Image
Farewell, farewell," said the swallow, with a heavy heart, as he left the warm countries, to fly back into Denmark. There he… — Hans Christian Andersen Copy Share Image
Why were so many Americans treated by their government as though their lives were as disposable as facial tissues? Because that was… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
There's nothing in this world can make me joy: Life is as tedious as a twice-told tale Vexing the dull ear of… — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
Criticism and rejection are not personal insults, but your artistic component will not know that. It will quiver and wince and run… — Dorothea Brande Copy Share Image
I try to look on the sunny side of life. If something dramatic happens to me, I always try to recount it… — Suzanne Shaw Copy Share Image
“It would be nice to report she lived happily ever after till the end of her days. But such cheap, cop-out one-liners… — Jennifer Silverwood Copy Share Image
I will meet you on the nape of your neck one day, on the surface of intention, word becoming act. We will… — Luke Davies Copy Share Image
Most of the auditions I went on, I passed up the projects because I just wasn't interested. When I read A Knight's… — Shannyn Sossamon Copy Share Image
From the early days of the Raj, Shakespeare had been woven into the fabric of India's education, and my father understood that… — Felicity Kendal Copy Share Image
The Watch is a powerful tale, courageous both in concept and creation: an ancient tale made modern, passed through different narrators in… — Aminatta Forna Copy Share Image
Don't the great tales never end?" "No, they never end as tales," said Frodo. "But the people in them come, and go… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I do not know if I really am a big star. And in fact that is not the most important thing for… — Sophia Loren Copy Share Image
A tale begun in other days, When summer suns were glowing - A simple chime, that served to time The rhythm of… — Lewis Carroll Copy Share Image
The lunatic is the man who lives in a small world but thinks it is a large one; he is the man… — Gilbert K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
Neurologists say that our brains are programmed much more for stories than for abstract ideas. Tales with a little drama are remembered… — John P. Kotter Copy Share Image
Does a man of sense run after every silly tale of hobgoblins or fairies, and canvass particularly the evidence? I never knew… — David Hume Copy Share Image
The Canadian people are more practical than imaginative. Romantic tales and poetry would meet with less favour in their eyes than a… — Susanna Moodie Copy Share Image
Gina always believed there was magic in the world. "But it doesn't work in the way it does in fairy tales," she… — Charles de Lint Copy Share Image
We talked to a lot of filmmakers who had worked on other anthologies and we looked at every anthology, and we wanted… — Mike Mendez Copy Share Image
Winning an award is a great feeling but winning the Vodafone Crossword Popular Choice Award is particularly exhilarating because it is based… — Ashwin Sanghi Copy Share Image
These were our bedtime stories. Tales that haunted our parents and made them laugh at the same time. We never understood them… — Edwidge Danticat Copy Share Image
When I was shooting the film I did not see the story as an everyday tale or a social one. To a… — Andrey Zvyagintsev Copy Share Image
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