You have given us a part in a story the bards will sing to…

Battle for the sake of honor may be a fine thing for bards to sing of, but it is no way to preserve one's…

— Jacqueline Carey

No, no," said Taran slowly, "It would be folly to think of attacking them." He smiled quickly at Fflewddur. "The bards would sing of…

— Lloyd Alexander

“I mean, I know you’re a scribe and all, but you were at point blank range, Johnny. A child could have made that shot.…

— Richard Nell

The bards sing of love, they celebrate slaughter, they extol kings and flatter queens, but were I a poet I would write in praise…

— Bernard Cornwell

“People without fine voices would never sing. Children would never draw pictures because they weren't real artists. Learning an instrument would be illegal unless…

— Rachel Heffington

“I once made up a story as a wedding present for some friends. It was about a couple who were given a story as…

— Neil Gaiman

“Accept the unknown. There are no secondary characters. Each one is silhouetted against the sky. All have the same stature. Within a given story…

— John Berger

Now I'm in nonfiction. To me any given story has its appropriate form. There might be some story I get involved with that's begging…

— Dave Eggers

To me any given story has its appropriate form. There might be some story I get involved with that's begging to be a graphic…

— Dave Eggers

“One of the most beautifully disturbing questions we can ask, is whether a given story we tell about our lives is actually true, and…

— David Whyte

Literature was not promulgated by a pale and emasculated critical priesthood singing their litanies in empty churches - nor is it a game for…

— John Steinbeck

Great is the art, Great be the manners, of the bard. He shall not his brain encumber With the coil of rhythm and number;…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

“We know summer is the height of of being alive. We don't believe in God or the prospect of an afterlife mostly, so we…

— Gary Shteyngart

With this blistering salvo of poetic gutshots Lawson has proven himself Bizarro’s true bard, its mad laureate. Switching from dark whimsy to retina-blast shock…

— Jeremy Robert Johnson

The earliest storytellers were magi, seers, bards, griots, shamans. They were, it would seem, old as time, and as terrifying to gaze upon as…

— Ben Okri