Fairy tales and folk tales have always played a role in my writing in one way or another. — Linn Ullmann Copy Share Image
Folk tales are the most authentic way of understanding a region, its legend and people. — Shweta Basu Prasad Copy Share Image
I also like the whole idea of fairy tales and folk tales being a woman's domain, considered a lesser domain at the… — Alice Hoffman Copy Share Image
The tricky or boastful gods of ancient myths and primitive folk tales are characters of the same kind that turn up in… — Northrop Frye Copy Share Image
“Fairy tales and folk tales are for children and childlike people, not because they are little and inconsequential, but because they are… — Anthony Esolen Copy Share Image
The great thing about fairy tales and folk tales is that there is no authentic text. — Philip Pullman Copy Share Image
I find inspiration from a lot of different texts and really old stories and folk tales - things I feel like no… — Borns Copy Share Image
Folk tales, which are usually written for children, become a bigger lesson for adults. — Shweta Basu Prasad Copy Share Image
“I realize that for all my penchant in believing that there's more to the world than what we can see, that folk… — Charles de Lint Copy Share Image
Folk tales are my favourite form of story telling. They not only just adjust the reader according to the world it is… — Shweta Basu Prasad Copy Share Image
They were written on cheap blue notebooks bought by poor women. I'm interested in folk tales in the way that medicine and… — Alice Hoffman Copy Share Image
The truth is, my folk-lore friends and my Saturday Reviewer differ with me on the important problem of the origin of folk-tales.… — Joseph Jacobs Copy Share Image
Those so-called records in the Bible were written by devout ecclesiasts who wanted to believe, and wanted others to believe, in the… — Madalyn Murray O'Hair Copy Share Image
Because the great thing about fairy tales and folk tales is that there is no authentic text. It's not like the text… — Philip Pullman Copy Share Image
For most of human history, 'literature,' both fiction and poetry, has been narrated, not written — heard, not read. So fairy tales,… — Angela Carter Copy Share Image
Bare Foot Folk and is full of really interesting songs, Ange Hardy takes folk tales and creates new folk songs that sound… — Mike Harding Copy Share Image
Myths, as compared with folk tales, are usually in a special category of seriousness: they are believed to have "really happened,"or to… — Northrop Frye Copy Share Image
“Over the last three centuries our historical reception of folk and fairy tales has been so negatively twisted by aesthetic norms, educational… — Jack Zipes Copy Share Image
I wanted the chance to look again at very famous stories and see what made them work well, whether there were any… — Philip Pullman Copy Share Image
The Celtic folk-tales have been collected while the practice of story-telling is still in full vigour, though there is every sign that… — Joseph Jacobs Copy Share Image
Over the centuries we have transformed the ancient myths and folk tales and made them into the fabric of our lives. Consciously… — Jack Zipes Copy Share Image
In college, I became interested in folk tales and fairy tales. Gradually I became more and more interested in the underlying meaning… — Brian Froud Copy Share Image
Up to 1870, it was equally said of France and of Italy that they possessed no folk-tales. Yet, within fifteen years from… — Joseph Jacobs Copy Share Image
