Celebrating historic triumphs is a favorite pastime for many Turks. Tales of how Turkic peoples emerged from Central Asia, crossed the steppes… — Stephen Kinzer Copy Share Image
“Rage Against the Dying Light is my fairy tale, even though it is based on a true story. For everyone knows that… — Jan Surasky Copy Share Image
I love the idea that people are listening to "Tales" during all types of activities. Knitting in their favorite chair, rock climbing,… — Glenn McQuaid Copy Share Image
A lot of fairy tales are thinly disguised hostility raps against parents. Kids know that they can't make it on their own,… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
The universe has a much greater imagination than we do, which is why the real story of the universe is far more… — Lawrence M. Krauss Copy Share Image
She knows that whispers can be useful. Sometimes they contain real information. But usually they're fairy tales and lies. This is the… — Julianna Baggott Copy Share Image
Sometimes you have to censor books. When I read 'Peter Rabbit,' I skip the part about Peter's father ending up in one… — Regina Brett Copy Share Image
I read a lot of 'The Canterbury Tales' on my phone last year, because I was cycling between three different editions, and… — Rick Moody Copy Share Image
Okay. I wish for world peace,” Weetzie said. “I am sorry,” the genie said. “I cant grant that wish. Its out of… — Francesca Lia Block Copy Share Image
When you think of Grimm's fairy tales, they are deeply, deeply psychological. They're so powerful, so bloody, and really, really disturbing. Think… — Denis O'Hare Copy Share Image
Serious skeptics, true believers, and seekers of every stripe will want to read Mitch Horowitz's vibrant, probing, and richly researched account of… — Judith Viorst Copy Share Image
SHE is neither pink nor pale, And she never will be all mine; She learned her hands in a fairy-tale, And her… — Edna St. Vincent Millay Copy Share Image
What is a novel? I say: an invented story. At the same time a story which, though invented has the power to… — Elizabeth Bowen Copy Share Image
I have not much faith in women in fiction… Women are so horribly subjective and they have such scorn for the healthy… — Willa Cather Copy Share Image
Each one of us needs time and space for recollection, meditation and calmness… Thanks be to God that this is so! In… — Pope Benedict XVI Copy Share Image
[Kenny] leaned back against the counter and studied the other man. “So Dex, how’s come you’re still alive to tell the tale?”… — Susan Elizabeth Phillips Copy Share Image
However wretched her origins, she chose freely to continue her crimes against us from the moment she woke to this life. It… — Catherynne M. Valente Copy Share Image
I am not sure how much good is done by moralising about fairy tales. This can be unsubtle - telling children that… — A. S. Byatt Copy Share Image
In The Tale of Despereaux, there is a lot of darkness, a lot of despair. There's also a lot of light, redemption,… — Kate DiCamillo Copy Share Image
Fairytales were maps formed of blood and hair and bones; they were the knots of the sub-conscious unwound. Every word in every… — Alice Hoffman Copy Share Image
I mentioned before, these [classic Disney films] are classic mythological tales, a hero's journey, and have been told for thousands of years.… — Roger Ross Williams Copy Share Image
“Fairy tales represent hundreds of years of stories based on thousands of years of stories told by hundreds, thousands, perhaps even millions… — Kate Bernheimer Copy Share Image
Talk health. The dreary, never-changing tale Of mortal maladies is worn and stale. You cannot charm, or interest, or please By harping… — Ella Wheeler Wilcox Copy Share Image
For Hell and the foul fiend that rules God's everlasting fiery jails (Devised by rogues, dreaded by fools), With his grim, grisly… — John Wilmot Copy Share Image
Life's but a walking shadow, a poor player, that struts and frets his hour upon the stage, and then is heard no… — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
There are accents in the eye which are not on the tongue, and more tales come from pale lips than can enter… — Thomas Hardy Copy Share Image
A tale, like the universe, they tell us, expands ceaselessly each time you examine it, until there’s finally no telling exactly where… — Chang-Rae Lee Copy Share Image
I got into reading a lot of noir and a lot of thrillers as well, and I really admired the plotting about… — Joe Abercrombie Copy Share Image
I always thought storytelling was like juggling [...] You keep a lot of different tales in the air, and juggle them up… — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image
A tale from which pieces have been raked out is like a fire that has been poked. One does not know the… — Rudyard Kipling Copy Share Image
“There, she wrote fantastical tales that charmed children, and under another name, she penned rather more lurid works that kept her in… — Leigh Bardugo Copy Share Image
The minute that you bring a unicorn into a story, you know that it's a fairy tale or a fable, because unicorns… — Gloria Vanderbilt Copy Share Image
That's the thing about being the product of happily marries parents, You grow up thinking the fairy tale is real, and more… — Nicholas Sparks Copy Share Image
Heather Lende's small town is populated with big hearts--she finds them on the beach, walking her granddaughters, in the stories of ordinary… — Jo-Ann Mapson Copy Share Image
The son has always felt like he was a footnote in one of the stories the father tells. The father is an… — Danny DeVito 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
This packrat has learned that what the next generation will value most is not what we owned, but the evidence of who… — Ellen Goodman Copy Share Image
In science there is a dictum: don't add an experiment to an experiment. Don't make things unnecessarily complicated. In writing fiction, the… — Ben Bova Copy Share Image
You could tell 'The Handmaid's Tale' from a male point of view. People have mistakenly felt that the women are oppressed, but… — Margaret Atwood Copy Share Image
There are so may ways to kills yourself, they're just old-fashioned with their permanganate: do you think I'd take permanganate? I wouldn't… — Christina Stead Copy Share Image
![“[Kenny] leaned back against the counter and studied the other man. “So Dex, how’s come you’re still alive to tell the tale?” Dexter wiped up a small coffee spill, the sat on the stool next to Torie. “All I’m prepared to say is that your sister and I slept together, and, since I compromised her, I…” quote by Susan Elizabeth Phillips](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/335/susan-elizabeth-phillips-815_alive_kenny-leaned-back-against-the-counter-an_3059749.jpg)
![“I mentioned before, these [classic Disney films] are classic mythological tales, a hero's journey, and have been told for thousands of years. Disney has updated them, and made them accessible for us.” quote by Roger Ross Williams](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/69e/roger-ross-williams-5118_classic_i-mentioned-before-these-classic-disney_2429370.jpg)
![“I always thought storytelling was like juggling [...] You keep a lot of different tales in the air, and juggle them up and down, and if you're good you don't drop any.” quote by Salman Rushdie](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/563/salman-rushdie-153_air_i-always-thought-storytelling-was-like-j_2126489.jpg)
