Is there anything more tedious than the often repeated tales of the old and forgetful? — Charles Caleb Colton Copy Share Image
There's a tricky tone where you try to get some humor into a movie that's also a tough tale of murder and… — Walter Hill Copy Share Image
Recasting fairy tales has become a publishing sub-genre in itself, and has been done both well and to the point of entropy.… — Graham Joyce Copy Share Image
Listen, my father had written. Listen to hear if they are telling the truth or only part of the truth, for that… — Kate Elliott Copy Share Image
The square is your friend. Behind every missed lay-up is a tale of the square neglected. — Digger Phelps 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
Oh, can I really believe the poet's tales, that when one first sees the object of one's love, one imagines one has… — Soren Kierkegaard Copy Share Image
Leonard Cohen can give you "Leonard Cohen" - the self-deprecating wit, the slow, considered speech, the perfectly-honed anecdote - Tom Waits is… — Sylvie Simmons Copy Share Image
A sense of humor is rare. It isn't telling a joke about how there are three ways to get to heaven. It's… — Rodney Dangerfield Copy Share Image
A Chinese tale tells of some men sent to harm a young girl who, upon seeing her beauty, become her protectors rather… — Taylor Wang Copy Share Image
Tales of power and ambition and intrigue and betrayal and desire - when you're telling those in a big way, you automatically… — Beau Willimon Copy Share Image
People tend to think of fairy tales as 'archetypal.' They are also extremely sensual, something which translates well over the ages. — Kate Bernheimer Copy Share Image
Old wives' tales are not enough in a day when old wives and old men, too, are constantly moving away from their… — Vincent Massey Copy Share Image
She always did like tales of adventure-stories full of brightness and darkness. She could tell you the names of all King Arthur's… — Cornelia Funke Copy Share Image
“The more stories I study, the more I begin to suspect that there is only one story, and that we are, all… — J. Aleksandr Wootton Copy Share Image
I know there are epic tales of romance, where love means you're supposed to die. Where it's all about sacrifice. But I… — David Levithan Copy Share Image
The crude commercialism of America, its materialising spirit, its indifference to the poetical side of things, and its lack of imagination and… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
She had sacrificed her childhood to save her brothers; she loved her family above all else, and her spirits yearned to return… — Juliet Marillier Copy Share Image
Yet, there was once a king worthy of that name. That king was Arthur. It is paramount disgrace of this evil generation… — Stephen R. Lawhead Copy Share Image
When I started writing Tales of the City I was one year away from being a mental illness. It wasn't until 1975… — Armistead Maupin Copy Share Image
The proverbial German phenomenon of the verb-at-the-end about which droll tales of absentminded professors who would begin a sentence, ramble on for… — Douglas Hofstadter 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
Therefore I tell my sorrows to the stones; Who, though they cannot answer my distress, Yet in some sort they are better… — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
I've always been interested in a certain kind of sophistication in children's literature. I loved Roald Dahl; I loved the underlying nastiness… — David Small Copy Share Image
