My heart beats more for a raw, average vulgar art, which doesn't live between sleepy fairy-tale moods and poetry but rather concedes… — Max Beckmann Copy Share Image
... the world can give you these glimpses as well as fairy tales can--the smell of rain, the dazzle of sun on… — Frederick Buechner Copy Share Image
People aren’t interested in the truth, Dafar. They’re interested in what keeps them safe. They’re interested in being looked after. They’re interested… — Melina Marchetta Copy Share Image
One of my ambitions has been to go back to what those great authors were doing then ... to bridge that sensibility… — Carlos Ruiz Zafon Copy Share Image
With 'Stardust', I hope what I was doing is giving 30-year-olds and 40-year-olds and 25-year-olds and 60-year-olds a chance to get the… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
Johnny was sobbing in shuddering gasps, telling me his small tale of woe, that the world was suddently different, and that he… — Juliet Marillier Copy Share Image
We thought by setting the film ["Selling Isobel"] in the cloak of... let's call it an indie-Hollywood thriller, it would appeal to… — Rudolf Buitendach Copy Share Image
The stars were my best friends. The air was full of legends and phantoms, full of mythical and fair-tale creatures, which suddenly… — Marc Chagall Copy Share Image
She put her hand on her chest. “I have magic yet. If you will set the clock working again, then I must… — Catherynne M. Valente Copy Share Image
Lastly, she pictured to herself how this same little sister of hers would, in the after-time, be herself a grown woman; and… — Lewis Carroll Copy Share Image
I know the look of an apple that is roasting and sizzling on the hearth on a winter's evening, and I know… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
Who would condescend to strike down the mere things that he does not fear? Who would debase himself to be merely brave,… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The fabliau, then, is a short story that is a tall story. It combines a burly blurting of dirty words with a… — Christopher Ricks Copy Share Image
The woeful tales of 'Super Mario Bros.' and 'Street Fighter' have taught studios that merely slapping a name to a movie is… — Rob Manuel Copy Share Image
“There were two things about this particular book ( The Golden Book of Fairy Tales ) that made it vital to the… — Terri Windling Copy Share Image
Magical, yes, but THE SNOW CHILD is also satisfyingly realistic in its depiction of 1920s homestead-era Alaska and the people who settled… — Andromeda Romano-Lax Copy Share Image
Fairy tales thrive on black and white. In life, there's only grey - no bad guys, no good guys. You could be… — Arnold Arre Copy Share Image
No matter how carefully records are kept and filed and computerized, they grow fuzzy with time. Stories grow by accretion. Tales accumulate--like… — Isaac Asimov Copy Share Image
Definitely they write themselves. It's an amazing experience. It's like the characters have come alive and are sitting on my shoulder talking… — R. A. Salvatore Copy Share Image
I was born to catch dragons in their dens And pick flowers To tell tales and laugh away the morning To drift… — James Kavanaugh Copy Share Image
Of one thing be certain: if a CEO is enthused about a particularly foolish acquisition, both his internal staff and his outside… — Warren Buffett Copy Share Image
Children are much more understanding of the suddenness and arbitrariness of death than we are. The old fairy tales contain a lot… — Emma Thompson Copy Share Image
Witchery is merely a word for what we are all capable of -- heightened nightsight, an empathy shared with the beasts, a… — Charles de Lint Copy Share Image
Think for a minute, darling: in fairy tales it's always the children who have the fine adventures. The mothers have to stay… — Audrey Niffenegger Copy Share Image
In fairy tales there's always one person who is made for one other, and they find each other and live happily ever… — Cate Tiernan Copy Share Image
Because now there's time enough not to hurry, to light the lamp and open the window to the moon and take a… — Jeet Thayil Copy Share Image
Eastward the dawn rose, ridge behind ridge into the morning, and vanished out of eyesight into guess; it was no more than… — J. R. R. Tolkien Copy Share Image
A man is always a teller of tales, he lives surrounded by his stories and the stories of others, he sees everything… — Jean-Paul Sartre Copy Share Image
I had this story from one who had no business to tell it to me, or to any other. I may credit… — Edgar Rice Burroughs Copy Share Image
I have no urns, no dusty monuments; No broken images of ancestors, Wanting an ear, or nose; no forged tales Of long… — Ben Jonson Copy Share Image
It is not the first duty of the novelist to provide blueprints for insurrection, or uplifting tales of successful resistance for the… — Ian Mcewan Copy Share Image
The reason that stepmothers are often the bad guy in fairy tales is because people died in childbirth, all the time, so… — Chris Weitz Copy Share Image
You can’t change the tale so that you turned left one day instead of right, or didn’t make the mistake that might… — Gail Caldwell Copy Share Image
The imagined beings have their insides on the outside; they are visible souls. And man as a whole, Man pitted against the… — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
I like science fiction. Arthur C. Clarke, Philip K. Dick and Vonnegut, and I really like Margaret Atwood, 'The Handmaid's Tale.' And… — Conor Oberst Copy Share Image
Let us go forth, the tellers of tales, and seize whatever prey the heart long for, and have no fear. Everything exists,… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Everyone would tell me they couldn't identify with sexual abuse. No one says they can't identify with the tales of the Greek… — Alexander Chee Copy Share Image
Vlad had found himself longing to encounter those of his own kind, to travel to the streets of Elysia-that far away world,… — Heather Brewer Copy Share Image
The modern fairy tale ending is the reverse of the traditional one: A woman does not wait for Prince Charming to bring… — Susan Faludi Copy Share Image
That's just me wanting that supernatural tool to tell a story and also not wanting to be restricted by reality, with how… — Bryan Fuller Copy Share Image
![“We thought by setting the film ["Selling Isobel"] in the cloak of... let's call it an indie-Hollywood thriller, it would appeal to a wider range of young women who would see this cautionary tale and say, "Hang on, I've got to think twice about what I get myself into."” quote by Rudolf Buitendach](https://sms4smile.com/q/img-quotes/63d/rudolf-buitendach-44228_appeals_we-thought-by-setting-the-film-selling-i_1058027.jpg)
