“I am a master of folklore - I should be able to throw folklore fireballs or something.” — Michael R. Underwood Copy Share Image
Read the folklore masters. Go to galleries. Walk in the woods. That's what you need to be an artist or storyteller. — Terri Windling Copy Share Image
“A lack of communication with horses has impeded human progress, said Abrenuncio. If we ever broke down the barriers, we could produce… — Gabriel García Márquez Copy Share Image
What I find interesting about folklore is the dialogue it gives us with storytellers from centuries past. — Terri Windling Copy Share Image
The study of folklore is largely the study of particular folklore genres: myth, folktale, legend, ballad, proverb, riddle, superstition, etc. — Alan Dundes Copy Share Image
I developed some unique software to public it on the web that I call the Folklore Project. — Andy Hertzfeld Copy Share Image
There is scarce a cave, an isolated rock, a lone pine tree or a pile of stones without supporting folklore. — John Hillaby Copy Share Image
When fairy tales are written in the west, they're known as folklore. In the east, fairy tales are called religions. — Paul Henderson Copy Share Image
Rivers run through our history and folklore, and link us as a people. They nourish and refresh us and provide a home… — Charles Kuralt Copy Share Image
“An intelligent enemy,' he would say, stroking his beard as if it were a bristly pet, 'rather than a foolish friend.' Or,… — Tahir Shah Copy Share Image
The fact that I seem to prefer seals over any other animal brides is something I hadn't actually realized until this moment.… — Delia Sherman Copy Share Image
When I was younger, I was in love with everything about the British Isles, from British folklore to Celtic music. That was… — Terri Windling Copy Share Image
I published my first book in 1982 - a collection of Irish folklore called Irish Folk & Fairy Tales. It is still… — Michael Scott Copy Share Image
If you're a part of this urban intelligentsia, you're not around animals all the time the way people were in the past.… — Robert Eggers Copy Share Image
“A midwife once told Erszébet of the üszögös gyermek, the stunted child, a premature fetus born alive, a scurrying spectral thing with… — Jody Shields Copy Share Image
I was interested in dark subject matter for sure, including folklore, fairy tales, mythology, archetypal stories of people going into the bowels… — Robert Eggers Copy Share Image
There are two kinds of truth; the truth that lights the way and the truth that warms the heart. The first of… — Raymond Chandler Copy Share Image
“You might just be compelled to hear, that there is folklore about a boy so dear, a legend the fairies readily discern,… — Chris DiSano Davenport Copy Share Image
Every country in the world loved the folklore of the West--the music, the dress, the excitement, everything that was associated with the… — John Wayne Copy Share Image
Imagine an American Hans Christian Andersen, conceive of the Brothers Grimm living in Missouri, and you will approximate Howard Schwartz, a fable-maker… — Cynthia Ozick Copy Share Image
“Trickster foxes appear in old stories gathered from countries and cultures all over the world -- including Aesop's Fables from ancient Greece,… — Terri Windling Copy Share Image
Because we remember pain and the menace of death more vividly than pleasure, and because our feelings toward the beneficent aspects of… — H. P. Lovecraft Copy Share Image
Wickedly Dangerous translates a terrifying figure from folklore , the Baba Yaga, into the smart, resourceful, motorcycle-riding Barbara Yager, who travels with… — Alex Bledsoe Copy Share Image
“In Europe, what seems to bond toads and toadstools strongly is their shared role as potentially toxic "agents of death", and their… — Adrian Morgan Copy Share Image
“How different this world to the one about which I used to read, and in which I used to live! This is… — Wirt Gerrare Copy Share Image
“I really love folklore. I had read a lot of faerie folklore that informed the books I wrote. I also really love… — Holly Black Copy Share Image
“It must be understood that in some cases the process by which a god or goddess degenerates into a fairy may occupy… — Lewis Spence Copy Share Image
“My view of writing "Coldest Girl in Coldtown" was to take every single thing that I loved from every vampire book I… — Holly Black Copy Share Image
“The Celt, and his cromlechs, and his pillar-stones, these will not change much – indeed, it is doubtful if anybody at all… — William Butler Yeats Copy Share Image
“Beer gurgled through the beard. 'You see,' the young man began, 'the desert's so big you can't be alone in it. Ever… — Anthony Boucher Copy Share Image
“Some years ago I had a conversation with a man who thought that writing and editing fantasy books was a rather frivolous… — Terri Windling Copy Share Image
“Long ago, when faeries and men still wandered the earth as brothers, the MacLeod chief fell in love with a beautiful faery… — Signe Pike Copy Share Image
Folklore provides a socially sanctioned outlet for the discussion of the forbidden and taboo. — Alan Dundes Copy Share Image
“The more stories I study, the more I begin to suspect that there is only one story, and that we are, all… — J. Aleksandr Wootton Copy Share Image
I find all folklore challenging, and I never cease to be grateful that I became a professional folklorist. — Alan Dundes Copy Share Image
The first word I would remove from the folklore of journalism is the word objective. — W. Eugene Smith Copy Share Image
Why can't I love him (a 2 yr old nephew) from afar? That's how I want to love him - through pictures… — Ray Romano Copy Share Image
“The host is rushing 'twixt day and night, And where is there hope or deed as fair? Caoilte tossing his burning hair,… — W.B. Yeats Copy Share Image
![“I really love folklore. I had read a lot of faerie folklore that informed the books I wrote. I also really love vampire folklore; my eighth grade research paper was on [it]. [With this project,] it was really helpful to think about the way you can use language. When you're writing about faeries…” quote by Holly Black](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/761/holly-black-329_books_i-really-love-folklore-i-had-read-a-lot_844280.jpg)
