I am not I; pity the tale of me.

With a tale, forsooth, he cometh unto you; with a tale which holdeth children from play, and old men from the chimney corner.

— Philip Sidney

“I didn’t think that fairy tale was the right term. It all seemed like a nightmare with a few blissful chapters inserted into it.”

— Keary Taylor

There are few joys to compare with the telling of a well-told tale.

— Charles de Lint

If you stretch your imagination, I'll tell you all a tale, about a time when everything wasn't up for sale.

— Tom Petty

“My fairy tale has ended.”

— Frank Warren

The song "No Fairy Tale" tells my story. Going through the hard things leads to a richer life than just trying to make everything…

— Lisa Loeb

At every moment of our lives, we all have one foot in a fairy tale and the other in the abyss.

— Paulo Coelho

“You are the fairy tale told by your ancestors.”

— Toba Beta

Each of us has a creation tale - how we came into this world. And I'll add this: each of us has an uncreation…

— Michael Hainey

...a tale of too many cooks in the defence.

— Ian Brown

Whether we think of Disney's blonde beauty and her pumpkin carriage or Marissa Meyer's recent recasting of 'Cinderella' as a cyborg in the young…

— Marie Rutkoski

“McIntyre’s tale may have predecessors, but it is unique. I strain for literary comparisons and think: Kipling, the classical Chinese poets, early Patrick O’Brian,…

— Stephen J. Bodio

For me, movies and television are interesting because they are the dominant storytelling form of our time. My first love will always be fiction,…

— Jess Walter

I think of mythology as the homeland of the muses, the inspirers of art, the inspirers of poetry. To see life as a poem…

— Joseph Campbell

“My turn now. The story of one of my insanities. For a long time I boasted that I was master of all possible landscapes--…

— Arthur Rimbaud