“There are two kinds of tales: one accurate but not true, the other true but not accurate.” — Margaret George Copy Share Image
Fairy tales are more than true, not because the evil people exist, but because they can never win. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Pay heed to the tales of old wives. It may well be that they alone keep in memory what it was once… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“Fairy tales are about lessons. Those who are virtuous and true are rewarded, while those who are wicked and greedy are punished.” — Meagan Spooner Copy Share Image
Only with the Internet can a peasant I have never met hear my voice and I can learn what's on his mind.… — Ai Weiwei Copy Share Image
When I went back to England after a year away, the country seemed stuck, dozing in a fairy tale, stifled by the… — Brian Eno 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
Adam Roberts is the affable and infectiously curious friend we all wish we had with us in the kitchen—the one who prods… — Amanda Hesser Copy Share Image
If there is such a thing as a universal--and I wasn't ready to throw all of mine out the window--it's that there… — Clare Vanderpool Copy Share Image
“What follows is the first in a collection of tales, primarily of one tixie family, who recorded their exploits more than two… — Jack Borden Copy Share Image
Fairy tales have rules. You are a princess or you aren’t. You are pure at heart or you aren’t. If you are… — Richard Siken Copy Share Image
You discovered yourself and what really mattered only after you passed through the lens of the fairy tale, imposed on every human… — Jonathan Lethem Copy Share Image
The market for short stories is hard to break into, but a magazine editor isn't always looking for big names with which… — Eric Brown Copy Share Image
“The art of writing tales consists in an ability to draw the rest of life from the little one has understood of… — Italo Calvino Copy Share Image
Those of us who can remember our childhoods will recall how ardently we relished the moment of the bedtime story, when our… — Paul Auster Copy Share Image
When your hero falls from grace, all fairy tales are uncovered Myth exposed and pain magnified, the grace pays uncovered He told… — Tupac Shakur Copy Share Image
For who can wonder that man should feel a vague belief in tales of disembodied spirits wandering through those places which they… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
And his knowledge remained woefully incomplete, Harry! That which Voldemort does not value, he takes no trouble to comprehend. Of house-elves and… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
A good story is alive, ever changing and growing as it meets each listener or reader in a spirited and unique encounter,… — Katherine Paterson Copy Share Image
I wanted to avoid what some modern tellers have done, quite legitimately, to make fairy tales more like novels and short stories,… — Philip Pullman Copy Share Image
An Islamic writer recalls her joy in the clothes she wore as a young girl at a wedding: They were always in… — Shelina Zahra Janmohamed Copy Share Image
You see these dictators up on their pedestals, surrounded by the bayonets of their soldiers and the truncheons of their police. They're… — Winston Churchill Copy Share Image
I believe in God, who can respond to prayers, to whom we can give trust and without whom life on this earth… — Nevill Francis Mott Copy Share Image
I like being scared, so I've always liked fairy tales because they're kind of creepy. — Lana Parrilla Copy Share Image
If to some my tale seems foolishness I am content that such could count me fool. — Sophocles Copy Share Image
For nearly 3,500 years Exodus has left such an imprint on people's memories that I cannot imagine it had been invented just… — Elie Wiesel Copy Share Image
So, I subscribe to the following reading: Star Wars is an essentially Christian tale. — Cass Sunstein Copy Share Image
No love-story has ever been told twice. I never heard any tale of lovers that did not seem to me as new… — Eleanor Farjeon Copy Share Image
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
“Your life have to be filled with interesting tales that it should not bore your grandchildren, when you tell them someday.” — Pradeepa Pandiyan Copy Share Image
I am extremely close to my brother, Kent, and my sister, Lauren, who have been remarkably understanding about all of my weird… — Karen Russell Copy Share Image
“RETURN TO TENDER Our aging parents deserve the same loving care they gave us in infancy Kamil Ali” — Kamil Ali Copy Share Image
Fairy-tales aren't just about finding handsome princes. They're about fulfilling your dreams and standing up for what you believe in. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Things need not have happened to be true. Tales and adventures are the shadow truths that will endure when mere facts are… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
To call everything that appears illogical, fantasy, fairy tale, or chimera would be practically to admit not understanding nature. — Marc Chagall Copy Share Image
The temptation to vivify the tale and make it walk abroad on its own legs is hard to deny. — Gelett Burgess Copy Share Image
Never tell tales about a woman. No matter how far away she is, shell always hear you. — Bryan Brown Copy Share Image
“It looked like he was going to die, but as you know, children don’t die in fairy tales. While” — Michèle Audin Copy Share Image
Soon as the evening shades prevail, The moon takes up the wondrous tale, And nightly to the listening earth Repeats the story… — Joseph Addison Copy Share Image
