Literature is where I go to explore the highest and lowest places in human society and in the human spirit, where I… — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image
Ben Farmer brings a legend to life in Evangeline, evoking with grace and panache the travails of the Acadians in mid-eighteenth century… — Keith Donohue Copy Share Image
The road and the tale have both been long, would you not say so? The trip has been long and the cost… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
I published my first book in 1982 - a collection of Irish folklore called Irish Folk & Fairy Tales. It is still… — Michael Scott Copy Share Image
I'm very interested in talking about children in this moment where you are going to become a teenager, and I think it's… — Lucile Hadzihalilovic Copy Share Image
The first science fiction show on television was 'Tales Of Tomorrow' using scripts from the radio show 'X-1' which used stories from… — David Gerrold Copy Share Image
In grammar school they taught me that a frog turning into a prince was a fairy tale. In the university they taught… — Ron Carlson Copy Share Image
And that's the way of a real tale. Take any one that you're fond of. You may know, or guess, what kind… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
A writer is dreamed and transfigured into being by spells, wishes, goldfish, silhouettes of trees, boxes of fairy tales dropped in the… — Cynthia Ozick 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
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
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
“One Autumn night, in Sudbury town, Across the meadows bare and brown, The windows of the wayside inn Gleamed red with fire-light… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I could a tale unfold whose lightest word Would harrow up thy soul, freeze thy young blood, Make thy two eyes like… — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
Nothing was easy, and sometimes she failed, and sometimes she thought that the fairy stories were right, that there must indeed be… — Sonya Hartnett Copy Share Image
Keep in mind that we're always up to other things, so we tend to sit on things from time to time. In… — Glenn McQuaid Copy Share Image
You cannot make a social-consciou s picture in which you say that the intermediary between the hand and the brain is the… — Fritz Lang Copy Share Image
They [Fairy Tales] are talking about real emotions, telling true stories, through the medium of metaphor. People used to understand metaphor better… — Jane Yolen Copy Share Image
You may tell a tale that takes up residence in someone's soul, becomes their blood and self and purpose. That tale will… — Erin Morgenstern Copy Share Image
If you wish for something hard enough, the fairy tales teach us, you can get it in the end. But it's hardly… — Jennifer Weiner Copy Share Image
My goal is to write stories that are connected, but not sequels in any meaningful sense. Like Howard's Conan tales or Leiber's… — Paul S. Kemp 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
“After all, in fairy tales, there was only one thing to do. In every story with a long sleep and a waking… — Catherynne M. Valente Copy Share Image
THE NAME OF THE WIND marks the debut of a writer we would all do well to watch. Patrick Rothfuss has real… — Terry Brooks Copy Share Image
Being a literature major, you know, I'm very familiar with the ways symbolism is used in our sort of mythic tales of… — Carrie Coon Copy Share Image
Fantasy is, I believe, the great nourisher of imagination. To paraphrase Einstein on how to develop intelligence in young people: Read fairy… — Lloyd Alexander 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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
That's the old ecological tale that explains humans' inability to fully appreciate global warming. To wit: if you drop a frog in… — Clive Thompson Copy Share Image
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