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
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
The society in 'The Handmaid's Tale' is a throwback to the early Puritans whom I studied extensively at Harvard under Perry Miller,… — Margaret Atwood 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
“Since no two days are the same,we must be entering life's classroom when we wake up each morning” — Kamil Ali Copy Share Image
At the end of the day, acting is all about telling lies. We are professional imposters and the audience accept that. We've… — Pete Postlethwaite Copy Share Image
Once upon a time fairy tales were told to audiences of young and old alike. It is only in the last century… — Terri Windling Copy Share Image
The delight we experience when we allow ourselves to respond to a fairy tale, the enchantment we feel, comes not from the… — Bruno Bettelheim Copy Share Image
M. J. Putney's writing has always been magical; now that she has turned her hand to the telling of a fantasy tale,… — Elizabeth Haydon Copy Share Image
There's no limit to what you can dream. You expect the unexpected, you believe in magic, in fairy tales, and in possibilities.… — Cecelia Ahern Copy Share Image
Fairy tales are about money, marriage, and men. They are the maps and manuals that are passed down from mothers and grandmothers… — Marina Warner Copy Share Image
What they don't know is that I went over the edge years ago, and lived to tell the tale. — Rebecca Wells Copy Share Image
For my teachers, unfortunately, certain things were, as they are for you, only tales of power — Carlos Castaneda Copy Share Image
That's the thing about a folk tale: It is always addressing incredibly key issues about how you should live and what the… — Benh Zeitlin Copy Share Image
It has always been a happy thought to me that the creek runs on all night, new every minute, whether I wish… — Annie Dillard Copy Share Image
England was merry England, when Old Christmas brought his sports again. 'Twas Christmas broach'd the mightiest ale; 'Twas Christmas told the merriest… — Walter Scott Copy Share Image
It never ceases to amaze us that when we were in kindergarten they taught us that a frog turning into a prince… — Ron Carlson Copy Share Image
I believe that culture begins in the cradle . . .To do without tales and stories and books is to lose humanity's… — Jane Yolen Copy Share Image
Usually, the fairy tale ends with the girl marrying the prince. But mine started as soon as the marriage was over. — Diane von Furstenberg Copy Share Image
Shams and delusions are esteemed for soundest truths, while reality is fabulous. If men would steadily observe realities only, and not allow… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
We have concluded that the rocks here were once soaked in liquid water. It changed their texture, and it changed their chemistry.… — Steve Squyres Copy Share Image
Only the fairy tale equates changelessness with happiness...Permanence means paralysis and death. Only, in movement, with all its pain, is life. — Jacob Burckhardt Copy Share Image
Each of us has been designed for one of two immortal functions, as either a storyteller or as a cross-legged listener to… — Bryce Courtenay Copy Share Image
When we stop believing in gods we can start believing in their stories, I retort. There are of course no such things… — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image