Fairy tales begin with conflict because we all begin our lives with conflict. We are all misfit for the world, and somehow… — Jack Zipes Copy Share Image
“How did it begin?' Miss Cotton asked. When?' they replied. In the beginning,' Aunt Velma said. Wid tears,' they assured her. Wid… — Opal Palmer Adisa Copy Share Image
Rumors and reports of man's relation with animals are the world's oldest news stories, headlined in the stars of the zodiac, posted… — Lewis H. Lapham Copy Share Image
“One of the most moving narratives of modern history is the story of how men and women languishing under various forms of… — Terry Eagleton Copy Share Image
True myths may serve for thousands of years as an inexhaustible source of intellectual speculation, religious joy, ethical inquiry, and artistic renewal.… — Ursula K. Le Guin Copy Share Image
If I have something I want to say that is too difficult for adults to swallow, then I write it in a… — Madeleine L'Engle Copy Share Image
While historians may go on attempting grand, sweeping and defining narratives, they work in a time when readers know that another narrative… — Colm Toibin Copy Share Image
“The ability to see our lives as stories and share those stories with others is at the core of what it means… — John Capecci and Timothy Cage Copy Share Image
“Simon?” “Yeah?” “Can you tell me a story?” He blinked. “What kind of story?” “Something where the good guys win and the… — Cassandra Clare Copy Share Image
“But certainly the two best-known tales in the neighborhood - the key hauntings, if you will - concern the Red Room and… — Jonathan Stroud Copy Share Image
There are certain scenes, certain hills and valleys and groves of pines which demand that a story shall be written about them.… — Arthur Machen Copy Share Image
I love the whole kind of notion of transformation for me is (what) excites me about not only acting, but storytelling. I… — Andy Serkis Copy Share Image
“The story of what it means to be human is never complete. Every generation will produce its own share of comedies and… — Kilroy J. Oldster Copy Share Image
Narration is as much a part of human nature as breath and the circulation of the blood… storytelling is intrinsic to biological… — A. S. Byatt Copy Share Image
“The tales that white people tell you of their Native servants are conceived in the same spirit. If they had been told… — Isak Dinesen Copy Share Image
In older science fiction stories, they had to rely on storytelling as opposed to spectacle. The old run of the 'Twilight Zone,'… — Josh Trank Copy Share Image
The fairy tale, which to this day is the first tutor of children because it was once the first tutor of mankind,… — Walter Benjamin Copy Share Image
My narrative is that I've never known what's coming next-I still don't. I fell down the right set of stairs and have… — Merlin Mann Copy Share Image
Narrative nonfiction was not my forte. I always wanted to let my imagination run free, and the facts sometimes got in the… — Douglas Florian Copy Share Image
“In the mid–path of my life, I woke to find myself in a dark wood,' writes Dante, in The Divine Comedy, beginning… — Terri Windling Copy Share Image
“It's a simple domestic tale, about a girl who has problems getting married, and how she deals with her relations and friends.… — Margaret Westhaven Copy Share Image
“Most kids don't believe in fairy tales very long. Once they hit six or seven they put away "Cinderella" and her shoe… — Rob Thurman Copy Share Image
“ On the proper role of coincidence in fiction —more exactly in storymaking, ... Aristotle declares in effect that since real life… — John Barth Copy Share Image
“We who work in fantasy today take the threads from all the story tellers of the past. From the ancient, many colored… — Janet Lee Carey Copy Share Image
A too often forgotten truth is that you can live through actual events of history and completely miss the underlying reality of… — Tom Harpur Copy Share Image
“Every culture that has lost myth has lost, by the same token, its natural healthy creativity. Only a horizon ringed about with… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
I am a man, and men are animals who tell stories. This is a gift from God, who spoke our species into… — Clive Barker Copy Share Image
Lewis Carroll, you see, wasn't really interested in telling an exciting story. Well, he wasn't interested in things like cause and effect… — James Bobin Copy Share Image
The motive for criticizing myth, that is, its objectifying representations, is present in myth itself, insofar as its real intention to talk… — Rudolf Bultmann Copy Share Image
“Francie always remembered what that kind teacher told her. “You know, Francie, a lot of people would think that these stories that… — Betty Smith Copy Share Image
The store of fairy tales, that blue chamber where stories lie waiting to be rediscovered, holds out the promise of just those… — Marina Warner Copy Share Image
The process of writing a novel is like taking a journey by boat. You have to continually set yourself on course. If… — Walter Mosley Copy Share Image
We have to make myths of our lives, the point being that if we do, then every grief or inexplicable seizure by… — May Sarton Copy Share Image
What serialized cable dramas have given us is the opportunity to not simply tell the same story with slightly different words and… — Sarah Wayne Callies Copy Share Image
I like being in real environments. I love being in the place that it's about - these sets and locations are characters… — Antoine Fuqua Copy Share Image
“Bob had been caught by the white death, the threat of which hung over every male black in the South. I had… — Richard Wright Copy Share Image
“Fairy tales are such evil little stories for young children. Every time I’m in a mess I expect a long-haired posh-speaking man… — Cecelia Ahern Copy Share Image
“Everything that happens to us, everything that we say or hear, everything that we see with our own eyes or we articulate… — Javier Marías Copy Share Image
Sharona Muir has written a gripping personal memoir about her odyssey to rediscover and reclaim her father. Along the way she uncovers… — Edmund White Copy Share Image
The wonder is that the characteristic efficacy to touch and inspire deep creative centers dwells in the smallest nursery fairy tale-as the… — Joseph Campbell Copy Share Image
