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
It's the primordial characters [of the Star Wars]. It's the beautiful princess and the callow youth and the smartass that I played… — Harrison Ford Copy Share Image
... we have broken down the self-respecting spirit of man with nursery tales and priestly threats, and we dare to assert, that… — Frances Wright 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
The story had held us, round the fire, sufficiently breathless, but except the obvious remark that it was gruesome, as, on Christmas… — Henry James Copy Share Image
What works about fairy tales is that they endure, and the great thing about fairy tales is that you can explore big,… — Gary Ross Copy Share Image
Listen not to a tale-bearer or slanderer, for he tells thee nothing out of good-will; but as he discovereth of the secrets… — Socrates Copy Share Image
If your best friend's feeling tearful, Try not to be too cheerful. Just let her fill your ear full Of sad tales… — Beatrice Schenk de Regniers Copy Share Image
[Fairy tales] are like a journey to the woods and the many ways you can get lost. Some people say it's not… — Alice Hoffman Copy Share Image
Neither revolution nor reformation can ultimately change a society, rather you must tell a new powerful tale, one so persuasive that it… — Ivan Illich Copy Share Image
“Tales are people who sit on the doorstep of the house of my mind. It is cold outside and they sit waiting.… — Sherwood Anderson Copy Share Image
“Stories come in all different kinds." Hester scooted closer, clearly enjoying the subject at hand. "There's tales, which are light and fluffy.… — Jonathan Auxier Copy Share Image
Rather than teasing the buyers, we may blame the society in which they lived for setting up a situation where the purchase… — Alain de Botton Copy Share Image
One describes a tale best by telling the tale. You see? The way one describes a story, to oneself or to the… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
[Comedies], in the ancient world, were regarded as of a higher rank than tragedy, of a deeper truth, of a more difficult… — Joseph Campbell Copy Share Image
To captivate our varied and worldwide audience of all ages, the nature and treatment of the fairy tale, the legend, the myth… — Walt Disney Copy Share Image
Brendan O’Meara’s Six Weeks in Saratoga is a victory to be savored by those who treasure good writing in general and tales… — Madeleine Blais Copy Share Image
Children are not deceived by fairy-tales; they are often and gravely deceived by school-stories. Adults are not deceived by science-fiction ; they… — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
Tamerlan Tsarnaev is telling no tales. The older of the two brothers who committed the Boston Marathon bombings was likely the one… — Jeffrey Kluger Copy Share Image
It won't happen yet, Ellen mused, mashing cooked carrots for Jill's lunch. Breakups seldom do. It will unfold slowly, one little tell-tale… — Sylvia Plath Copy Share Image
I've always had a keen sense of history. My father was an antiques dealer and he used to bring home boxes full… — Sara Sheridan Copy Share Image
I understood that the stories we believe have power over us. They work into our bodies and minds and change us from… — Danielle Trussoni Copy Share Image
I was excited to discover, in this tale by Eliade, the key themes that I most hope to understand better - time,… — Francis Ford Coppola Copy Share Image
Tell the story that's been growing in your heart, the characters you can't keep out of your head, the tale story that… — Jennifer Weiner Copy Share Image
Why the fairy tale of Willie Mays making a brilliant World Series catch, and then dashing off to play stickball in the… — Ernie Harwell Copy Share Image
“Now and then they would tell old legends and fairy tales about the castle, the way people always do about old castles.… — Mechthild Gläser Copy Share Image
Robert Zubrin’s masterful study…makes for riveting reading. . a cautionary tale of what happens when powerful, unprincipled elites are not only alienated… — Steven W. Mosher Copy Share Image
Breathes life into a vital but oft-neglected chapter of our history. Amy Belding Brown has turned an authentic drama of Indian captivity… — Eliot Pattison Copy Share Image
And the people listened, and their faces were quiet with listening. The story tellers, gathering attention into their tales, spoke in great… — John Steinbeck Copy Share Image
In 1992, fans of our feline temptress got another chance to sink their claws into the new and exciting tales of Catwoman… — Eartha Kitt Copy Share Image
Well — when I write my book, and tell the tale Of my adventures — all these little stars That shake out… — Cyrano de Bergerac Copy Share Image
Because of my capacity for listening to strangers' tales, or the details of their lives, my patience with their food and their… — Paul Theroux Copy Share Image
The framed tale is, in my opinion, one of the most natural ways to tell a story. If you think of it,… — Patrick Rothfuss Copy Share Image
It wasn't until I was an adult reader that I began to fathom the influence of fairy tales on writers I was… — Kate Bernheimer Copy Share Image
It's hard to believe that these self-centered people have nuclear weapons that they can fire at any moment. Even modern wars are… — Jay Roach Copy Share Image
No one can mock your meagre achievements or inability to accomplish the simplest of tasks, if they remain figments of your imagination.… — Chris Murray Copy Share Image
How I keep trying to force our story into a fairy tale, but from the beginning, it's been more like a nursery… — Shannon Hale Copy Share Image
Those evening bells! those evening bells! How many a tale their music tells Of youth and home, and that sweet time When… — Charles Lamb Copy Share Image
In the fairy tale, an incomprehensible happiness rests upon an incomprehensible condition. A box is opened and all evils fly out. A… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Hello, I'm Leonard Nimoy. The following tale of alien encounters is true. By true I mean false. It's all lies. But they're… — Leonard Nimoy Copy Share Image
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![“[Comedies], in the ancient world, were regarded as of a higher rank than tragedy, of a deeper truth, of a more difficult realization, of a sounder structure, and of a revelation more complete. The happy ending of the fairy tale, the myth, and the divine comedy of the soul, is to be read, not as a…” quote by Joseph Campbell](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/8b9/joseph-campbell-300_ancient_comedies-in-the-ancient-world-were-regar_3109729.jpg)
