“Round these men stories tended to group themselves, sometimes deserting more ancient heroes for the purpose. Round poets have they gathered especially,… — W.B. Yeats Copy Share Image
Forget about your folklore. I can take a few inspirations, but I can certainly not do an homage. That's not my trip.… — Karl Lagerfeld Copy Share Image
One of the best things about folklore and fairy tales is that the best fantasy is what you find right around the… — Terri Windling Copy Share Image
A lot of my stories are inspired by Japanese folklore or literature or movies: I've done stories based on Kabuki and Noh… — Stan Sakai Copy Share Image
I love gothic monsters, but I like to root them more firmly in the traditional folklore from which they sprang. Or at… — Ted Naifeh Copy Share Image
I've loved fairytales, folklore and mythology since I was a small child, and I think it was inevitable that they would influence… — Juliet Marillier Copy Share Image
If you take myth and folklore, and these things that speak in symbols, they can be interpreted in so many ways that… — Diana Wynne Jones Copy Share Image
The feeling of New Orleans is so pervasive. It's such a strange and decadent and enchanted embrace that that city has. There's… — Daniel Gillies Copy Share Image
The careful scholarship of the dedicated amateur mycophile R. Gordon Wasson reads like an exciting scientific detective story. Moreover, his willingness to… — Weston La Barre Copy Share Image
It is important to recognize that folklore is not simply a way of obtaining available date about identity for social scientists; it… — Alan Dundes Copy Share Image
I think - since I was about 7 years old - that was when I was first introduced to the comics called… — S. S. Rajamouli Copy Share Image
People get overwhelmed with folklore as fact. Take the Exodus. The Exodus did not occur. It could not have occurred. Wasn't necessary… — John Henrik Clarke Copy Share Image
It was Sci-Fi and fantasy that got me reading, and Sci-Fi writers in particular have pack rat minds. They introduce all sorts… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
“Increase Mather, President of Harvard University, in his treatise on Remarkable Providences, insists that the smell of herbs alarms the Devil and… — James Henry Breasted Copy Share Image
“The Anne Rice books are a lot about infection. I read "Interview With the Vampire" a million times when I was in… — Holly Black Copy Share Image
“The odor of burning sulphur shifted on the night air, acrid, a little foul. Somewhere, the Canaan dwellers had learned of a… — Leslie H. Whitten Jr Copy Share Image
Our behavior is different. How often have you seen a headline like this?--TWO DIE ATTEMPTING RESCUE OF DROWNING CHILD. If a man… — Robert A. Heinlein Copy Share Image
“Sara Kendell once read somewhere that the tale of the world is like a tree. The tale, she understood, did not so… — Charles de Lint Copy Share Image
“Our house was an old Tudor mansion. My father was very particular in keeping the smallest peculiarities of his home unaltered. Thus… — John Berwick Harwood Copy Share Image
“Where would tourism be without a little luxury and a taste of night life? There were several cities on Deanna, all moderate… — Christina Engela Copy Share Image
“Fiction is written with reality and reality is written with fiction. We can write fiction because there is reality and we can… — C. JoyBell C Copy Share Image
“Often I felt that these men were play-acting: the unreality of their role was their security, even their own destinies were to… — Halldór Laxness Copy Share Image
“It was a sort of car that seemed to have a faculty for motion with an absolute lack of any accompanying sound… — Cornell Woolrich 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
“I'm Liam of Erinthia. I'm here to rescue you ... And You are not Cinderella. You are a tree branch wrapped in… — Christopher Healy Copy Share Image
In more recent years, I've become more and more fascinated with the indigenous folklore of this land, Native American folklore, and also… — Terri Windling Copy Share Image
They do not merely collect texts; they must also gather data about the context and the informant and, above all, write an… — Alan Dundes Copy Share Image
The Orenda is a powerful story from history, folklore and the imagination, based on the universality of human cruelty, superstition and perseverance.… — Linden MacIntyre Copy Share Image
The assumption that men were created equal, with an equal ability to make an effort and win an earthly reward, although denied… — Margaret Mead Copy Share Image
“In the case of George and the Dragon – an encounter in which the dice were theologically loaded – any morally sentient… — Julian Barnes Copy Share Image
There is more to folklore research than fieldwork. This is why in all of my other upper-division courses I require a term… — Alan Dundes Copy Share Image
A man from Iowa or Illinois will say 'I'm from the Middle West'..a Georgian or a Mississipian may admit to being merely… — J. Frank Dobie Copy Share Image
“You can take your gold, but afterwards, things are, things are flat . There is less beauty in a rainbow, less meaning… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
I always wanted to go to Cuba growing up. It was this fascinating, forbidden country that seemed to have a lot of… — Giovanni Ribisi Copy Share Image
As I travel the world, it seems that younger people identify me merely with some of the folklore in the 'Chuck Norris… — Chuck Norris Copy Share Image
I'm obsessed with the countryside: woods, forests, fields, lakes, mountains. I'm really into folk music and folklore. But more so I'm into… — Ellie Goulding Copy Share Image
So, too, if, to our surprise, we should meet one of these morons whose remarks are so conspicuous a part of the… — Wallace Stevens Copy Share Image
Most Remainers and pragmatic Leavers have supported Theresa May's efforts to negotiate a bespoke deal based on the Chequers proposals. And most… — Nick Boles Copy Share Image
I do a lot of urban fantasy, which is modern-day cities, but you've got magic, you've got fairies running around, or cryptozoological… — Seanan McGuire Copy Share Image
I think airports are places of huge human drama. The more I see of it, the more I am convinced that Heathrow… — Tony Parsons Copy Share Image
![“The Anne Rice books are a lot about infection. I read "Interview With the Vampire" a million times when I was in seventh and eighth grade. Also, [writing Gavriel's backstory] definitely came from those books: I sat down and reread them all and thought a lot about… the way in which vampirism is…” quote by Holly Black](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/8b1/holly-black-329_books_the-anne-rice-books-are-a-lot-about-infe_2240821.jpg)
