Everything that I have told you is, of course, a fairy tale. Life is magical, after all. Nothing is safe and everything… — Trina Schart Hyman Copy Share Image
“I have noticed that when people tell their own stories, often it has less to do with wanting to communicate an idea… — Lydia Minatoya Copy Share Image
“Ever since Eliza had discovered the book of fairy tales . . . had disappeared inside its faded pages, she'd understood the… — Kate Morton 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
“Human beings across every culture I know about require such stories, stories with cool winds and wood smoke. They speak to something… — Peter Straub Copy Share Image
The forest has always been a place, in fairy tales and in Shakespeare, where you go and discover who you are. You… — David Farr Copy Share Image
“Large numbers of strangers can cooperate successfully by believing in common myths. Any” — Yuval Noah Harari Copy Share Image
There is a visual narrative that is implicitly understandable even when you don't understand the words and in a good comic, and… — Francoise Mouly Copy Share Image
“The tales we tell ourselves about ourselves make us who we are.” — Megan McCafferty Copy Share Image
We can distance ourselves from the reality of what we did through storytelling. — Joshua Oppenheimer Copy Share Image
But surely to tell these tall tales and others like them would be to spread the myth, the wicked lie, that the… — Zadie Smith Copy Share Image
writers are makers, not just transmitters, of myths. Literature offers not only myths but counter-myths, just as life offers counter-experiences - experiences… — Susan Sontag Copy Share Image
“I don't have any stories. All that shit I tell you actually happens. ” — Kristen Ashley Copy Share Image
“Aunt Syl must have conveniently stopped reading the childhood fairy tales when the knight left the damsel in distress to pursue a… — Rachel Higginson Copy Share Image
They lived in a great city, a metropolis of many narratives that converged briefly and then separated for ever, discovering their different… — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image
I became a writer, a teller of tales, because otherwise I would have died... or worse. — Carlos Ruiz Zafon Copy Share Image
“The space between the private and the public is the nexus of the personal and the social, if not political. It’s where… — John Capecci and Timothy Cage Copy Share Image
“In the wild cathedral evening the rain unraveled tales for the disrobed faceless forms of no position. Tolling for the tongues with… — Bob Dylan Copy Share Image
“Why would you save me? Because you, mouse, can tell Gregory a story. Stories are light. Light is precious in a world… — Kate DiCamillo Copy Share Image
“I found out the hard way that fairy tales and true love don't exist” — Elizabeth Eulberg Copy Share Image
From the early days of the Raj, Shakespeare had been woven into the fabric of India's education, and my father understood that… — Felicity Kendal Copy Share Image
