Violence has been a part of storytelling forever and there's obviously a reason for it. Fairy tales are really violent, the original… — Jane Levy Copy Share Image
What I often do in my work is to take a great story, such as the Odyssey, the search for the Grail,… — Jean Houston Copy Share Image
No shame in saying that I felt a loneliness drifting through me. Funny how it was, everyone perched in their own little… — Colum McCann Copy Share Image
Everything in life is arbitrary yet must be over-determined in literature. Jean McGarry knows how to tell a persuasive tale illuminating these… — Harold Bloom Copy Share Image
Bicycling beyond the Divide did what all great books do: it told me about me. In its tale of a journey made… — Bret Lott Copy Share Image
Fairy tales thrive on black and white. In life, there's only grey - no bad guys, no good guys. You could be… — Arnold Arre Copy Share Image
Assure a man that he has a soul and then frighten him with old wives' tales as to what is to become… — Theodore Dreiser Copy Share Image
I had become so quiet and so small in the grass by the pond that I was barely noticeable, hardly there. I… — Richard Brautigan 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
I had always been a great talker and teller of tales. 'You should put a lock on that tongue of yours. It's… — Kate Forsyth Copy Share Image
Great deeds give choice of many tales. Choose a slight tale, enrich it large, and then let wise men listen — Pindar Copy Share Image
I was raised on the brothers Grimm, but my favorite fairy tales in the world are Oscar Wilde's - 'The Nightingale and… — Denis O'Hare Copy Share Image
That which we remember is, more often than not, that which we would like to have been; or that which we hope… — Ralph Ellison Copy Share Image
I wanted Yoda to be the traditional kind of character you find in fairy tales and mythology. And that character is usually… — George Lucas Copy Share Image
A sum of money is a leading character in this tale about people, just as a sum of honey might properly be… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Seventeen years after its intial release, The Empire Strikes Back is still as thrilling and involving as ever. Because of the high… — James Berardinelli Copy Share Image
Still, I wonder if we shall ever be put into songs or tales. We're in one, of course; but I mean: put… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
If you don't recount your family history, it will be lost. Honor your own stories and tell them too. The tales may… — Madeleine L'Engle Copy Share Image
Jacqueline Carey has created a postmodern fable of enormous scope and force. Santa Olivia is at once a cautionary tale of people… — Eric Van Lustbader Copy Share Image
Contrary to what many may think, immortality is not a fairy tale invented to compensate for an unhappy life. — Stephen R. Lawhead Copy Share Image
Overnight Success Happens Only in Fairy Tales, Trashy Novels, and Bad Movies. — Ernie J Zelinski Copy Share Image
For some reason, I write about crash-landed spaceships quite a lot and my wife is sick of hearing of hearing my ideas… — Erica Brown Copy Share Image
'Tis an old tale, and often told; But did my fate and wish agree, Ne'er had been read, in story old, Of… — Walter Scott Copy Share Image
My relationship with Wilhelm and Jacob Grimm reaches far back into my childhood. I grew up with Grimm's fairy tales. I even… — Gunter Grass Copy Share Image
