Arraigned at my own bar, Memory having given her evidence of the hopes, wishes, sentiments I had been cherishing since last night--… — Charlotte Bronte Copy Share Image
I've been with the project for like three years: creating it, pushing it. [There] becomes a certain doubt when you're pitching this… — Steven Caple Jr Copy Share Image
As the mother of six, Karen Santorum knows the power of stories to shape and mold the nature of our children. In… — Janet Parshall Copy Share Image
No one spoke in terms of children's literature, as opposed to adult literature, until around the 1940s. It wasn't categorised much before… — Rick Riordan Copy Share Image
What do you do when the story changes in midlife? When a tale you have told yourself turns out to be a… — Gail Caldwell Copy Share Image
Those so-called records in the Bible were written by devout ecclesiasts who wanted to believe, and wanted others to believe, in the… — Madalyn Murray O'Hair Copy Share Image
Very often, I confess, the teller of dreams bores me. His dream could perhaps interest me if it were frankly worked on.… — Gaston Bachelard 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
Fantasy is, at its best, the purest access to storytelling that we have. It universalizes a tale, it evokes wonder and timeless… — Guy Gavriel Kay Copy Share Image
All cities are geological; you cannot take three steps without encountering ghosts bearing all the prestige of their legends. We move within… — Ivan Chtcheglov Copy Share Image
And so they lived many happy years, and the promised tasks were accomplished. Yet long afterward, when all had passed away into… — Lloyd Alexander Copy Share Image
I was young, and by instinct of self-preservation I had to collect my energy on something, if I were not to be… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
They hold their great balls in the open air, in what is called a fairy-ring. For weeks afterward you can see the… — James M. Barrie Copy Share Image
The passion for travelling is, I believe, instinctive in some natures. We have seen men persevere in their enterprises against the most… — James Holman Copy Share Image
My dear fellow,' Burlingame said, 'we sit here on a blind rock careening through space; we are all of us rushing headlong… — John Barth Copy Share Image
Home is the place you return to when you have finally lost your soul. Home is the place where life is born,… — Karen Maitland Copy Share Image
It was love, she thought, love that never clutch its object; but, like the love which mathematicians bear their symbols, or poets… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
It's a tale of redemption. It's a tale of a girl who is going on a journey, who makes mistakes as most… — Jerry Bruckheimer Copy Share Image
Photography is a great adventure in thinking and looking, a wonderful magic toy that miraculously manages to combine our adult awareness with… — Luigi Ghirri Copy Share Image
When we seek a textbook case for the proper operation of science, the correction of certain error offers far more promise than… — Stephen Jay Gould Copy Share Image
I'm sure that there must have been times when you have read books or watched films and found yourself secretly wishing for… — Mark Walden Copy Share Image
Europe is often held up as a cautionary tale, a demonstration that if you try to make the economy less brutal, to… — Paul Krugman Copy Share Image
For men and women are not only themselves; they are also the region in which they are born, the city apartment or… — W. Somerset Maugham Copy Share Image
To me, there was an interesting movie to be made about two people who had been on that whirlwind romance and what… — Dan Mazer Copy Share Image
We think that play and fairytales belong to childhood - how shortsighted that is! As though we would want at any time… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
The truth is that Trout, like Vonnegut and Ray Bradbury and many others, writes parables. These are set in frames which have… — Philip Jose Farmer Copy Share Image
You've got all these characters and yet, you're hovering over one character like a fly over a stinky diaper. Realize that you've… — Chuck Wendig Copy Share Image
Oh, do you have A Tale of Two Cities?" "That silly thing? Men going around getting their heads chopped off for love?… — Cassandra Clare Copy Share Image
Marjan. I have told him tales of good women and bad women, strong women and weak women, shy women and bold women,… — Susan Fletcher Copy Share Image
Fiction cannot recite the numbing numbers, but it can be that witness, that memory. A storyteller can attempt to tell the human… — Jane Yolen 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
I was taught to read by my grandmother. Central to her method was a tale of unnatural love called 'The Duck and… — Gore Vidal Copy Share Image
So let us raise a cheer ... for the insatiable spirit of Man eager for all new things! What a tale could… — Cecil Arthur Lewis Copy Share Image
Dickens is a much misunderstood and mis-approached writer, in that he tends to be read, particularly in the twentieth century, as a… — Martin Amis Copy Share Image
Here and there and not just in books we catch glimpses of a world of once upon a time and they lived… — Frederick Buechner Copy Share Image
I met Shannon Hale through some friends and family. I was interested in her book called Princess Academy, which is just a… — Jerusha Hess Copy Share Image
When your hero falls from grace, all fairy tales are uncovered Myth exposed and pain magnified, the grace pays uncovered He told… — Tupac Shakur Copy Share Image
I now want to tell three stories about advances in twentieth-century physics. A curious fact emerges in these tales: time and again… — Steven Weinberg Copy Share Image
I had to create a children's show, because we wanted the money - and it was, interestingly enough, the first project at… — Richard Cotovsky Copy Share Image
An Islamic writer recalls her joy in the clothes she wore as a young girl at a wedding: They were always in… — Shelina Zahra Janmohamed Copy Share Image