The artist usually sets out -- or used to -- to point a moral and adorn a tale. The tale, however, points… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I am very much interested in fairy tales. I guess that most of the films I like to do have this kind… — Lucile Hadzihalilovic Copy Share Image
When I first read Anne Frank's 'Diary of a Young Girl,' I saw for the first time that a girl could be… — Kate Bernheimer Copy Share Image
Actually everybody has a story, a fairy tale in their heart that they adhere to. — Phoebe Stone Copy Share Image
I think it is beyond doubt that H. P. Lovecraft has yet to be surpassed as the twentieth century's greatest practitioner of… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
[We should] suspend our belief of every tale that deviates from the laws of nature and the character of man. — Edward Gibbon Copy Share Image
It's easy to believe in magic when you're young. Anything you couldn't explain was magic then. It didn't matter if it was… — Charles de Lint Copy Share Image
I have never dreamed of being a princess. I have not longed for Prince Charming. I have and do long for something… — Roxane Gay Copy Share Image
There are no events but thoughts and the heart's hard turning, the heart's slow learning where to love and whom. The rest… — Annie Dillard Copy Share Image
I've always been into having stories told to me. I was a voracious reader, my father was also a teller of tales;… — Damon Lindelof Copy Share Image
I will meet you on the nape of your neck one day, on the surface of intention, word becoming act. We will… — Luke Davies Copy Share Image
If somebody had told me when I was starting composition in Helsinki in the '70s that I would end up in L.A.… — Esa-Pekka Salonen Copy Share Image
I wrote this story for you, but when I began it I had not realized that girls grow quicker than books. As… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Ay me! for aught that ever I could read, could ever hear by tale or history, the course of true love never… — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
It's [Jack the Giant Slayer] one of those fairy tales your mom and dad read to you when you're little. Never once… — Eleanor Tomlinson Copy Share Image
I gravitated to Judy Blume early on. 'Tales of a Fourth Grade Nothing' was my favorite, with a realistic and relatable protagonist… — Jeff Kinney 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
Never tell tales about a woman. No matter how far away she is, shell always hear you. — Bryan Brown Copy Share Image
Imagine (if you dare) a whimsical marriage of Lord Dunsany and S.J. Perelman, and you have something approaching the tales of Rhys… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I'm so excited to see 'Horns' because it's so many different genres in one film. It's a sci-fi, it's a love story,… — Juno Temple Copy Share Image
I must indeed abide the Doom of Men whether I will or nill: the loss and the silence. But I say to… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
We thought by setting the film ["Selling Isobel"] in the cloak of... let's call it an indie-Hollywood thriller, it would appeal to… — Rudolf Buitendach Copy Share Image
Each of us embodies, in a particular tale and clothed in the garments of time & place, universal truth and everlasting life. — J. R. R. Tolkien Copy Share Image