Southerners love a good tale. They are born reciters, great memory retainers, diary keepers, letter exchangers . . . great talkers. — Eudora Welty Copy Share Image
Ah, now, don't cry over lost years and forgetfulness. The tales tell what they can. The rest is for us to learn.. — Shannon Hale Copy Share Image
In vain would I seek to discover Why sad and mournful am I, My thoughts without ceasing brood over A tale of… — Heinrich Heine Copy Share Image
I have no time to explain now. It is a thrilling tale, I wish to do it justice. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I think people should read fairy tales, because were hungry for a mythology that will speak to our fears. — Sandra Cisneros Copy Share Image
This was not a fearie tale. This was not the movies. This was life. It hurt more. It was excruciating. It was… — Francesca Lia Block Copy Share Image
My father was full of tales. He said his family were ministers in the Church of Scotland, or they were lawyers. — Anne Reid Copy Share Image
It's all a farce, - these tales they tell About the breezes sighing, And moans astir o'er field and dell, Because the… — Paul Laurence Dunbar Copy Share Image
My family was big on sharing. I guess it was just the way I was brought up. Or maybe, I read those… — Margaret Atwood Copy Share Image
And when we are with Alex, I might as well not be there. They speak in a language of whispers and giggles… — Lauren Oliver Copy Share Image
Each of us has a creation tale - how we came into this world. And I'll add this: each of us has… — Michael Hainey Copy Share Image
Conversation is the blood of baseball. It flows through the game, an invigorating system of anecdotes. Ballplayers are tale tellers who have… — Thomas Boswell Copy Share Image
And the wind will whip your tousled hair, The sun, the rain, the sweet despair, Great tales of love and strife. And… — Harry Chapin Copy Share Image
I have a bold plan to break from the Bloomberg years, and end the 'Tale of Two Cities' by providing real opportunity… — Bill de Blasio Copy Share Image
I believe that our lives, just like fairy tales - the stories that have been written by us humans, through our own… — Lucinda Riley Copy Share Image
Many Southern writers must have learned the art of storytelling from listening to oral tales. I did. It gave me the knowledge… — Erskine Caldwell Copy Share Image
William Shakespeare was the most remarkable storyteller that the world has ever known. Homer told of adventure and men at war, Sophocles… — Marchette Chute Copy Share Image
...You believe that the kind of story you want to tell might be best received by the science fiction and fantasy audience.… — Orson Scott Card Copy Share Image
Compassion is an emotion of which we ought never to be ashamed. Graceful, particularly in youth, is the tear of sympathy, and… — Hugh Blair Copy Share Image
She put her hand on her chest. “I have magic yet. If you will set the clock working again, then I must… — Catherynne M. Valente Copy Share Image
“Nothing ever begins. There is no first moment; no single word or place from which this or any other story springs. The… — Clive Barker Copy Share Image
Nay, but Jack, such eyes! such eyes! so innocently wild! so bashfully irresolute! Not a glance but speaks and kindles some thought… — Richard Brinsley Sheridan Copy Share Image
More wonderful than the lore of old men and the lore of books is the secret lore of the ocean. Blue, green,… — H. P. Lovecraft Copy Share Image
“There is, however, a strong empirical reason why we should cultivate thoughts that can never be proved. It is that they are… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Jed Perl writes precisely and ecstatically. Antoine' s Alphabet is a history and a fairy tale, a work of criticism, and a… — Jonathan Safran Foer Copy Share Image
I like colorful tales with black beginnings and stormy middles and cloudless blue-sky endings. But any story will do. — Katherine Applegate Copy Share Image
A generic vampire tale in the Underworld vein that comes closer to the infamous Van Helsing than a memorable re-interpretation of a… — James Berardinelli Copy Share Image
So maybe it wasn't the fairy tale. But those stories weren't real anyway. Mine were. — Sarah Dessen Copy Share Image
Fairy tales are my natural language. I feel at ease telling fairy tales like a fish feels in water. I am totally… — Michel Ocelot Copy Share Image
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
Uncertainty in the pressure of vivid hopes and fears is painful, but must be endured if we wish to live without the… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
Conservatives used to believe in confronting hard truths, not succumbing to comforting fairy tales. Some still do. — Fareed Zakaria Copy Share Image
It is good for children to find themselves facing the elements of a fairy tale - they are well-equipped to deal with… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
The bigger question to ask about 300 is why, for a supposedly rousing tale of heroism, it's so curiously unaffecting. — Stephanie Zacharek Copy Share Image
We're all just big kids. That's all we are. We are artistes. We grew up wanting to be part of the fantasy… — Angelina Jolie Copy Share Image
“A stranger lies behind my eyes, I know not what he wants; sells me dreams, tells me tales, and with the truth,… — Akash Mandal Copy Share Image
You and me Haymitch.Very cozy.Picnics, birthdays, long winter nights sitting around the fire retelling old Hunger Games tale. -Peeta Mellark — Suzanne Collins Copy Share Image
You will go on and meet someone else and I'll just be a chapter in your tale, but for me, you were,… — Marian Keyes Copy Share Image
Before you enter the forest, you must leave your mind outside, because in the land of fairy tales there is no need… — Mehmet Murat Ildan Copy Share Image
The more truly we can see life as a fairytale, the more clearly the tale resolves itself into war with the dragon… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
