Children delight in folk-tale and fairy lore, but the very little child loves best the story which mirrors the familiar. And it… — Maud Lindsay Copy Share Image
We believed the fairy tales we told our children and we loved them beyond reason even when we were green and bungling… — Marlena De Blasi Copy Share Image
“Fairy tales are just true stories that humans have chosen not to believe in any more. Besides, this is Myths and Legends… — Stacie Simpson Copy Share Image
In the fairy tale you mentioned last night, I would probably be the villain. But it's possible the villain would treat you… — Lisa Kleypas Copy Share Image
I always wondered why the makers leave housekeeping and cooking out of their tales. Isn't it what all the great wars and… — Ursula K. Le Guin Copy Share Image
Do you do this because you live such short lives? Tell yourselves wild tales of what might happen tomorrow, and feel all… — Robin Hobb Copy Share Image
Life is not at all what you might think it to be A simple tale where each thing has its history It's… — John Ashbery Copy Share Image
'Snow White' is an old fairy tale, so obviously the idea of vanity and obsession with youth is long-standing. With today's science,… — Julia Roberts Copy Share Image
There are a range of women not represented in the Western fairy tale tradition. Husband-beaters are particularly interesting, as well as male… — Marina Warner Copy Share Image
Maybe if people can't have an end to their suffering, the next thing they seek for is to know why they suffer.… — Matthew J. Kirby Copy Share Image
Asking the proper question is the central action of transformation- in fairy tales, in analysis, and in individuation. The key question causes… — Clarissa Pinkola Estes Copy Share Image
Most of the great works of juvenile literature are subversive in one way or another: they express ideas and emotions not generally… — Alison Lurie Copy Share Image
I hope that even if you remember not a single word of mine, you remember those of Seneca, another of those old… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Non- Euclidean calculus and quantum physics are enough to stretch any brain; and when one mixes them with folklore, and tries to… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
This is exactly the message that fairy tales get across to the child in manifold form: that a struggle against severe difficulties… — Bruno Bettelheim Copy Share Image
Jacqueline Carey has created a postmodern fable of enormous scope and force. Santa Olivia is at once a cautionary tale of people… — Eric Van Lustbader Copy Share Image
I adopted a healthier diet. I take at least a tablespoon of apple-cider vinegar a day. It's an old wives' tale, but… — Melissa Etheridge Copy Share Image
“What follows is the first in a collection of tales, primarily of one tixie family, who recorded their exploits more than two… — Jack Borden Copy Share Image
Fairy tales have rules. You are a princess or you aren’t. You are pure at heart or you aren’t. If you are… — Richard Siken Copy Share Image
If there is such a thing as a universal--and I wasn't ready to throw all of mine out the window--it's that there… — Clare Vanderpool 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
I wanted the chance to look again at very famous stories and see what made them work well, whether there were any… — Philip Pullman Copy Share Image
She tastes like nectar and salt. Nectar and salt and apples. Pollen and stars and hinges. She tastes like fairy tales. Swan… — Laini Taylor Copy Share Image
Fairy tales had been her first experience of the magical universe, and more than once she had wondered why people ended up… — Paulo Coelho Copy Share Image
And ever, as the story drained The wells of fancy dry, And faintly strove that weary one To put the subject by,… — Lewis Carroll Copy Share Image
The tales of Elfland do not stand or fall on their actuality but on their truthfulness, their speaking to the human condition,… — Jane Yolen Copy Share Image
As an audience member, those studio films are fun. I like an adventure tale, and I also like to go see something… — Michael Fassbender Copy Share Image
Vanity, in a fairy tale, will make you evil. Vanity in the real world will drive you nuts. Vanity makes you say… — Richard Siken Copy Share Image
So we make stories of our own, in fevered and envious imitation of our Maker, hoping that we'll tell, by chance, what… — Clive Barker Copy Share Image
With respect," said Red, and his voice had gone so quiet people hushed each other to hear him, "my tale is yet… — Juliet Marillier 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
What works about fairy tales is that they endure, and the great thing about fairy tales is that you can explore big,… — Gary Ross Copy Share Image
Listen not to a tale-bearer or slanderer, for he tells thee nothing out of good-will; but as he discovereth of the secrets… — Socrates Copy Share Image
If your best friend's feeling tearful, Try not to be too cheerful. Just let her fill your ear full Of sad tales… — Beatrice Schenk de Regniers Copy Share Image
The story had held us, round the fire, sufficiently breathless, but except the obvious remark that it was gruesome, as, on Christmas… — Henry James Copy Share Image
Those of us who can remember our childhoods will recall how ardently we relished the moment of the bedtime story, when our… — Paul Auster Copy Share Image
... we have broken down the self-respecting spirit of man with nursery tales and priestly threats, and we dare to assert, that… — Frances Wright Copy Share Image
It's the primordial characters [of the Star Wars]. It's the beautiful princess and the callow youth and the smartass that I played… — Harrison Ford Copy Share Image
“The art of writing tales consists in an ability to draw the rest of life from the little one has understood of… — Italo Calvino Copy Share Image
The market for short stories is hard to break into, but a magazine editor isn't always looking for big names with which… — Eric Brown Copy Share Image
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