I'm not certain that I draw from any one culture more than others. Many myths and legends of many different cultures are… — Robert Jordan Copy Share Image
It's like what you might call Goldilocks' dilemma in the old fairy tale. Young men see women as "less than" or "better… — Michael Kimmel Copy Share Image
Over and over, we start our own tales, compose our own stories, whether our lives are short or long. Until at last… — Cameron Dokey Copy Share Image
The tricks of magic follow the archetypes of narrative fiction — there are tales of creation and loss, death and resurrection, and… — Marco Tempest Copy Share Image
Is it not the business of the conductor to convey to the public in its dramatic form the central idea of a… — John Philip Sousa Copy Share Image
Wyatt Earp and the Holy Grail: The Tale of the Three Gates is a look at humankind's relationship to the elements which… — Evan Jacobs Copy Share Image
“Ben invented mathematical theories that even he didn't manage to remember and wrote such bizarre tales of adventure that he ended up… — Carlos Ruiz Zafón Copy Share Image
All stories must end so, with the next tale winking out of the corners of the last pages, promising more, promising moonlight… — Catherynne M. Valente Copy Share Image
Over the Christmas period, I spent time with both Bob Hawke and Paul Keating, and you listen to stories and tales of… — Julia Gillard Copy Share Image
So it ends as I guessed it would,' his thoughts said, even as it fluttered away; and it laughed a little within… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
When in doubt, the rule of threes is a rule that plays well with all of storytelling. When describing a thing? No… — Chuck Wendig Copy Share Image
I'm glad that so many of Donald Pease's unique and revealing insights on Dr. Seuss--observations he shared with me on camera with… — Ron Lamothe Copy Share Image
America is the wealthiest nation on Earth, but its people are mainly poor, and poor Americans are urged to hate themselves… It… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
If there is no solace in the fruits of our research, there is at least some consolation in the research itself. Men… — Steven Weinberg Copy Share Image
Listen, my father had written. Listen to hear if they are telling the truth or only part of the truth, for that… — Kate Elliott Copy Share Image
It's an odd thing but when you tell someone the true facts of a mythical tale they are indignant not with the… — Josephine Tey Copy Share Image
There is no such thing as a true tale. Truth has many faces and the truth is like to the old road… — Marion Zimmer Bradley Copy Share Image
In fairy tales there's always one person who is made for one other, and they find each other and live happily ever… — Cate Tiernan Copy Share Image
Because now there's time enough not to hurry, to light the lamp and open the window to the moon and take a… — Jeet Thayil Copy Share Image
Eastward the dawn rose, ridge behind ridge into the morning, and vanished out of eyesight into guess; it was no more than… — J. R. R. Tolkien Copy Share Image
I had this story from one who had no business to tell it to me, or to any other. I may credit… — Edgar Rice Burroughs Copy Share Image
I have no urns, no dusty monuments; No broken images of ancestors, Wanting an ear, or nose; no forged tales Of long… — Ben Jonson Copy Share Image
A man is always a teller of tales, he lives surrounded by his stories and the stories of others, he sees everything… — Jean-Paul Sartre Copy Share Image
You can’t change the tale so that you turned left one day instead of right, or didn’t make the mistake that might… — Gail Caldwell Copy Share Image
The reason that stepmothers are often the bad guy in fairy tales is because people died in childbirth, all the time, so… — Chris Weitz Copy Share Image
It is not the first duty of the novelist to provide blueprints for insurrection, or uplifting tales of successful resistance for the… — Ian Mcewan Copy Share Image
Everyone would tell me they couldn't identify with sexual abuse. No one says they can't identify with the tales of the Greek… — Alexander Chee Copy Share Image
Let us go forth, the tellers of tales, and seize whatever prey the heart long for, and have no fear. Everything exists,… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I like science fiction. Arthur C. Clarke, Philip K. Dick and Vonnegut, and I really like Margaret Atwood, 'The Handmaid's Tale.' And… — Conor Oberst Copy Share Image
The imagined beings have their insides on the outside; they are visible souls. And man as a whole, Man pitted against the… — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
Vlad had found himself longing to encounter those of his own kind, to travel to the streets of Elysia-that far away world,… — Heather Brewer Copy Share Image
We thought by setting the film ["Selling Isobel"] in the cloak of... let's call it an indie-Hollywood thriller, it would appeal to… — Rudolf Buitendach Copy Share Image
Johnny was sobbing in shuddering gasps, telling me his small tale of woe, that the world was suddently different, and that he… — Juliet Marillier Copy Share Image
Fairy tales thrive on black and white. In life, there's only grey - no bad guys, no good guys. You could be… — Arnold Arre Copy Share Image
The stars were my best friends. The air was full of legends and phantoms, full of mythical and fair-tale creatures, which suddenly… — Marc Chagall Copy Share Image
Definitely they write themselves. It's an amazing experience. It's like the characters have come alive and are sitting on my shoulder talking… — R. A. Salvatore Copy Share Image
No matter how carefully records are kept and filed and computerized, they grow fuzzy with time. Stories grow by accretion. Tales accumulate--like… — Isaac Asimov Copy Share Image
I was born to catch dragons in their dens And pick flowers To tell tales and laugh away the morning To drift… — James Kavanaugh Copy Share Image
Of one thing be certain: if a CEO is enthused about a particularly foolish acquisition, both his internal staff and his outside… — Warren Buffett Copy Share Image
Witchery is merely a word for what we are all capable of -- heightened nightsight, an empathy shared with the beasts, a… — Charles de Lint Copy Share Image
![“We thought by setting the film ["Selling Isobel"] in the cloak of... let's call it an indie-Hollywood thriller, it would appeal to a wider range of young women who would see this cautionary tale and say, "Hang on, I've got to think twice about what I get myself into."” quote by Rudolf Buitendach](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/63d/rudolf-buitendach-44228_appeals_we-thought-by-setting-the-film-selling-i_1058027.jpg)
