The wider the author's arsenal of tools and the better technically equipped the storyteller is, the better the tale will be. — Carlos Ruiz Zafon 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
Fairy tales and folk tales have always played a role in my writing in one way or another. — Linn Ullmann Copy Share Image
I think every beautiful tale in the world hides the truth and reveals it little by little. — Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu Copy Share Image
History is not a nightmare from which. I am trying to awaken, but rather, a glorious tale which I wish to be… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Divorce in a young-adult novel means what being orphaned meant in a fairy tale: vulnerability, danger, unwanted independence. — Caitlin Flanagan Copy Share Image
“Fairy tales have a habit of ending too soon. They never show what happens afterwards when the prince and princess ride off… — Kate Morton Copy Share Image
Sometime let gorgeous Tragedy In sceptred pall come sweeping by, Presenting Thebes, or Pelops' line, Or the tale of Troy divine. — John Milton Copy Share Image
I know you know the tale of Baby June You know the way she could deliver a tune She was a killer… — Terry Moore Copy Share Image
Voices in the forest tell of dark and twisted enchantments - as dark and twisted as the roots and grasping branches of… — Brian Froud Copy Share Image
Marco Polo tells the tale of The Old Man in the Mountains and how he recruits new members to his Band of… — W. Somerset Maugham Copy Share Image
It was one of those hot, silent nights, when people sit at windows listening for the thunder which they know will shortly… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
Think what you would have been now, if instead of being fed with tales and old wives' fables in childhood, you had… — Charles Lamb 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
The tales of our exploits will survive as long as the human voice itself,' he said. 'And even after that, when the… — John Green Copy Share Image
We get divorce, we get conned, someone we love dies, or we can't find anybody to love us or somebody breaks our… — Terry McMillan Copy Share Image
Imagination has given us the steam engine, the telephone, the talking-machine, and the automobile, for these things had to be dreamed of… — L. Frank Baum Copy Share Image
I have always enjoyed dealing with a slightly surrealistic situation and presenting it in a realistic manner. I've always liked fairy tales… — Stanley Kubrick Copy Share Image
I found myself sitting at the computer, and I thought I was going to write a kind of simple nostalgic story about… — Khaled Hosseini Copy Share Image
Knowledge is not a series of self-consistent theories that converges toward an ideal view; it is rather an ever increasing ocean of… — Paul Feyerabend Copy Share Image
“But before any of the small appliances who may be listening to this tale should begin to think that they might do… — Thomas M. Disch Copy Share Image
To young men contemplating a voyage I would say go. The tales of rough usage are for the most part exaggerations, as… — Joshua Slocum Copy Share Image
Away! Away! The spell of arms and voices: the white arms of roads, their promise of close embraces and the black arms… — James Joyce Copy Share Image
There was a tale he had read once, long ago, as a small boy: the story of a traveler who had slipped… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
I love fairy tales because I think that behind fairy tales, there is always a meaning. — Monica Bellucci Copy Share Image
He left the name at which the world grew pale, To point a moral, or adorn a tale. — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
All nations love the same jests and tales, Jews, Christians, and Mahometans, and the same translated suffice for all. — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
Folk tales are the most authentic way of understanding a region, its legend and people. — Shweta Basu Prasad Copy Share Image
“They loved fairy tales so much. If they ever got here and saw everything we've seen, I doubt they would have left.” — Chris Colfer Copy Share Image
The Goldilocks Enigma is the idea that everything in the universe is just right for life, like the porridge in the fairy… — Paul Davies Copy Share Image
With living colours give my verse to glow: The sad memorial of a tale of woe! — William Falconer Copy Share Image
On that other novels followed: but I still wrote fairy tales and dreamy poems of another world. — Laurence Housman Copy Share Image
Have you ever been tempted to start your own business? First read this cautionary tale, especially if you think your ideas come… — Phil Vischer Copy Share Image
The story it told was unremarkable: a tale of love found and lost- the oldest story in the world. The only story. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
What a poor appearance the tales of poets make when stripped of the colours which music puts upon them, and recited in… — Plato Copy Share Image
“If you do a good deed to reap the reward of blessings, wouldn't you be performing a selfish act?” — Kamil Ali Copy Share Image
There is a tale...It tells of the days when a blight hung over our land. Nothing prospered. Nothing flourished. Not even zucchini… — Cameron Dokey Copy Share Image
I've met talespinners before, Jake, and they're all cut more or less from the same cloth. They tell tales because they're afraid… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
We may have forgotten how to feel. Nobody is teaching us how to live happily ever after, as we've heard in fairy… — Yakov Smirnoff Copy Share Image
I'm a great believer in fairy tales. I think it is important to have something you can lose yourself in. — Sophie Dahl Copy Share Image
