This is the mythosphere. It's made up of all the stories, theories and beliefs, legends, myths and hopes, that are generated here… — Diana Wynne Jones Copy Share Image
Mama, Mama, help me get home I'm out in the woods, I am out on my own. I found me a werewolf,… — Lauren Oliver Copy Share Image
By nature, a storyteller is a plagiarist. Everything one comes across--each incident, book, novel, life episode, story, person, news clip--is a coffee… — Rabih Alameddine Copy Share Image
That's the thing about a folk tale: It is always addressing incredibly key issues about how you should live and what the… — Benh Zeitlin Copy Share Image
When we stop believing in gods we can start believing in their stories, I retort. There are of course no such things… — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image
Stories are thick with meanings. You can fall in love with a story for what you think it says, but you can't… — Susan Fletcher Copy Share Image
Fairy tales are loved by the child not because the imagery he finds in them conforms to what goes on within him,… — Bruno Bettelheim Copy Share Image
There was a small wooden gazebo built out over the water; Isabelle was sitting in it, staring out across the lake. She… — Cassandra Clare Copy Share Image
“Because fairy tales contain powerful truths about the human condition, many of them, with tenacity and uncanny persistence, turn up, theme and… — Gertrud Mueller Nelson Copy Share Image
Fairy tales have always been about getting through the worst of everything, the darkest and the deepest and the bloodiest of events.… — Catherynne M. Valente Copy Share Image
It has been said, "History is written by the victors." I take this to mean we can make ourselves victorious by writing,… — Jennifer Beals Copy Share Image
“Still, I wonder if we shall ever be put into songs or tales. We're in one, of course, but I mean: put… — J.R.R. Tolkien Copy Share Image
As a relentless gatherer of moments, I find that my favorite images, although grounded in the present, are like spirits shaped by… — Sylvia Plachy Copy Share Image
Sometimes I think that love is one big fairy tale. I wonder if people who say they are in love, if –… — Elizabeth Chandler Copy Share Image
I am not even an atheist so much as I am an antitheist; I not only maintain that all religions are versions… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
The Blood of Heroes is surely the best account to date, one that presents plenty of new insights while acting as a… — William C. Davis Copy Share Image
The spark for 'In Praise of Slowness' came when I began reading to my children. Every parent knows that kids like their… — Carl Honore Copy Share Image
The last level of metaphor in the Alice books is this: that life, viewed rationally and without illusion, appears to be a… — Martin Gardner Copy Share Image
There are recurring elements in popularized fairy tales, such as absent parents, some sort of struggle, a transformation, and a marriage. If… — Kate Bernheimer Copy Share Image
But the tale or narrative set in the past may have its particular time-free value; and the candid reader will not misunderstand… — Patrick O'Brian Copy Share Image
Frankenstein feels like an ancient tale, the kind of traditional story that appears in many other forms. It appeals to something very… — Kenneth Branagh Copy Share Image
Then what shall I write? I can't just write that this happened then this happened then this happened to boring infinitum. I'll… — David Almond Copy Share Image
People quote lines to me all the time. I'm always surprised - everybody has a favorite movie, and they're always different. I'm… — William Sadler Copy Share Image
“Finally, I’d say to anyone who wants to tell these tales, don’t be afraid to be superstitious. If you have a lucky… — Philip Pullman Copy Share Image
If I'm away from you for more than an hour, I can't stop thinking about you. I carry you in my spirit.… — Tyler Perry Copy Share Image
The men began to trade tales of atrocities, first stories they had heard, then those they'd witnessed, and finally the things that… — Toni Morrison Copy Share Image
“Those places where sadness and misery abound are favoured settings for stories of ghosts and apparitions. Calcutta has countless such stories hidden… — Carlos Ruiz Zafón Copy Share Image
To wait so long/And want a man refined and strong/Is not at all uncommon. And yet to wait one hundred years/Without a… — Charles Perrault Copy Share Image
Time in its irresistible and ceaseless flow carries along on its flood all created things and drowns them in the depths of… — Anna Komnene Copy Share Image
O! useful may it be to have shewn, that, though the vicious can sometimes pour affliction upon the good, their power is… — Ann Radcliffe Copy Share Image
The Lewis and Clark tale has all the all the elements that one would want to put into a movie. It has… — William Least Heat-Moon Copy Share Image
I understand why society, especially American society, is gravitating toward fairy tales, given our economy. We've been exploring the world of witches… — Ginnifer Goodwin Copy Share Image
Prostrate on earth the bleeding warrior lies, And Isr'el's beauty on the mountains dies. How are the mighty fallen! Hush'd be my… — William Somervile Copy Share Image
“The books were legends and tales, stories from all over the Realm. These she had devoured voraciously – so voraciously, in fact,… — Chris Wooding Copy Share Image
In the early morning hours, Hannah read at the table by the dim light of dawn. She leaned in close to the… — Matthew J. Kirby Copy Share Image
OTHERBOUND is a web of spells and counterspells, but Corinne Duyvis never loses sight of the bodies, minds and all-too-human emotions that… — Margo Lanagan Copy Share Image
I am among those who think that science has great beauty. A scientist in his laboratory is not only a technician: he… — Marie Curie Copy Share Image
Once I start work on a project, I don’t stop and I don’t slow down unless I absolutely have to. If I… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
In the old fairy tales, often a 'moral' was tacked on at the end of the story - say, if a book… — Kate Bernheimer Copy Share Image
“The yarns of seamen have a direct simplicity, the whole meaning of which lies within the shell of a cracked nut. But… — Joseph Conrad Copy Share Image
