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“In the end, this volume should be read a s a collection of love stories, Above all, they are tales of love,… — Asti Hustvedt Copy Share Image
“Do you know why teachers use me? Because I speak in tongues. I write metaphors. Every one of my stories is a… — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
“In older myths, the dark road leads downward into the Underworld, where Persephone is carried off by Hades, much against her will,… — Terri Windling Copy Share Image
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“It is a dreadful thing to wait and watch for the approach of death; to know that hope is gone, and recovery… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
“The woman who presents herself to the spectator as a 'picture' forever arranged, is, for the contemplative mind, the chiefest danger. Sometimes… — Djuna Barnes Copy Share Image
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“There was a nice brown egg, lightly boiled, for each of them, and then sardines on toast, and then buttered toast, and… — C.S. Lewis Copy Share Image
“I live in gratitude to my parents for initiating me--and as early as I begged for it, without keeping me waiting--into knowledge… — Eudora Welty Copy Share Image
“The principle I always go on in writing a novel is to think of the characters in terms of actors in a… — P.G. Wodehouse Copy Share Image
“I think of myth and magic as the hieroglyphics of the human psyche. They are a special language that circumvents conscious thought… — Ripley Patton Copy Share Image
LORE, n. Learning --particularly that sort which is not derived from a regular course of instruction but comes of the reading of… — Ambrose Bierce Copy Share Image
“September let go a long-held breath. She stared into the roiling black-violet soup, thinking furiously. The trouble was, September didn’t know what… — Catherynne M. Valente Copy Share Image
“One of the things that I have learned, one of the attainments of the long travails and tribulations, has been, I think,… — Ayad Akhtar Copy Share Image
“But, said Lewis, myths are lies, even though lies breathed through silver. No, said Tolkien, they are not. ...just as speech is… — Humphrey Carpenter Copy Share Image
“Like Seita and Setsuko, like Chihiro - like Sophie Hatter who disappears from her dreary life into a world of talking fireballs… — Karl Thomas Smith Copy Share Image
“The heroic quest typically highlights a seemingly average person (think Thomas Anderson before he becomes Neo) who embarks on a perilous undertaking,… — Sol Luckman Copy Share Image
“Life is a collection of memories and feelings. Mawkish sentimentally urges us to engage in artistic overtures, we yearn to share with… — Kilroy J. Oldster Copy Share Image
“Therese was propped up on one elbow. The milk was so hot, she could barely let her lip touch it at first.… — Patricia Highsmith Copy Share Image
“You call a tree a tree, he said, and you think nothing more of the word. But it was not a 'tree'… — J.R.R. Tolkien Copy Share Image
“J. R. R. Tolkien, the near-universally-hailed father of modern epic fantasy, crafted his magnum opus The Lord of the Rings to explore… — N.K. Jemisin Copy Share Image
“As it unfolded, the structure of the story began to remind me of one of those Russian dolls that contain innumerable diminishing… — Carlos Ruiz Zafón Copy Share Image
“I've been actively engaged with mythic imagery ever since I picked up that Rackham book, but it really came into focus for… — Brian Froud Copy Share Image
“Anyway, it's a pretty good story," I said. "You have to admit." "Yeah?" He crumpled up the Kleenex, having dispatched the solitary… — Michael Chabon Copy Share Image
“This consideration takes us very close to what it is that makes Greek tragedy “tragic.” A play about an unambiguously heroic young… — Daniel Mendelsohn Copy Share Image
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“Witch-sign, they said. Little eddies, like miniature storms breaking the surface of the ocean. Witch-signs rise up in great numbers, last a… — Cat Hellisen Copy Share Image
“Not to know the end of the tale filled me with a sense of emptiness, loss. I hungered for the sharp, frightening,… — Richard Wright 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
“You can’t tell half a tale, Poison. You can’t write half a book. Whatever you choose to do next will completely change… — Chris Wooding Copy Share Image
“Overnight, our neighbors began to look at us differently. Maybe it was the little girl down the road who no longer waved… — Julie Otsuka Copy Share Image
“ Confession time: I doubt I would ever have picked up one of Marjorie’s books, had I not met her in person.… — Bill Willingham Copy Share Image
“All through the winter months, Rose kept up the practice of sitting by the fire with Peter and a book telling him… — Christopher Daniel Mechling Copy Share Image
“ When you look out across the fields And you both see the same star Pitching its tent on the point of… — Eiléan Ní Chuilleanáin Copy Share Image
“Tales are people who sit on the doorstep of the house of my mind. It is cold outside and they sit waiting.… — Sherwood Anderson Copy Share Image
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“The world of shadows and superstition that was Victorian England, so well depicted in this 1871 tale, was unique. While the foundations… — Hugh Lamb Copy Share Image
“We tell ourselves stories in order to live. The princess is caged in the consulate. The man with the candy will lead… — Joan Didion Copy Share Image
