If art is not to be life-enhancing, what is it to be? Half the world is feminine - why is there resentment… — May Sarton Copy Share Image
Fairy tales begin with conflict because we all begin our lives with conflict. We are all misfit for the world, and somehow… — Jack Zipes Copy Share Image
So there are different examples of fairy tales, and sometimes I believe in them and sometimes I don't. — Taylor Swift Copy Share Image
“All those tales were told right here, one after the next, each informing the one that came after. History isn't a tale… — Victor LaValle Copy Share Image
No, In fairy tales When to the ill-starred Prince the lady says 'I love you!' all his ugliness fades fast But I… — Edmond Rostand Copy Share Image
“Darwinism is dynamic. It is about change, not stasis; about process, not pattern; about tales, not tableaux; about becoming, not being.” — Henry Gee Copy Share Image
Great works - and I think Star Wars is a great work - are easily susceptible to multiple plausible interpretations. Some of… — Cass Sunstein Copy Share Image
I'm not born again, I'm not Kabbalah, God forbid, but I did have an experience hitting 30 that I needed to lean… — Rufus Wainwright Copy Share Image
“Fiction gives us a reach into the lives of individuals that would otherwise be but a closed door. If we are gifted… — James D. Maxon 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
I grew up falling in love with kind of story, amazing, wonder tale of the East, which if you're a child growing… — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image
Every interview with a public figure should include the question "What have you been wrong about, and how did that change your… — Stewart Brand Copy Share Image
In the past, love for me has always meant forever, and sure, you still nurse some of those fantasies, but I don't… — Jennifer Lopez Copy Share Image
Myth is a tale once believed as truth; believed, it is not myth, but religion. A tale once religiously believed that has… — Laura Riding Copy Share Image
All lives are tales. Some spread, and grow in the telling. Others are just told between us and the gods, muttered back… — Mark Lawrence Copy Share Image
Erections, Ejaculations,Exhibitions and General Tales of Ordinary Madness. — Charles Bukowski Copy Share Image
For most of human history, 'literature,' both fiction and poetry, has been narrated, not written — heard, not read. So fairy tales,… — Angela Carter 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
Stories took twists and turns down fairy-tale paths or down very human everyday ones. You think you’re at the end of the… — Deb Caletti Copy Share Image
I had been fed, in my youth, a lot of old wives' tales about the way men would instantly forsake a beautiful… — Dorothy Parker Copy Share Image
Most memoirs about alcoholism, promiscuity, and addiction are deep, sobering tales full of scars that will never heal and include alarming statistics… — Kate Madison Copy Share Image
Like any child raised on tales of magical worlds beyond paintings and mirrors and wardrobes, I had yearned to enter Middle Earth,… — Jim C. Hines Copy Share Image
If you read folklore and mythology, any kind of myths, any kind of tall tales, running is always associated with freedom and… — Christopher McDougall 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