Folk Tales Quotes

12 quotes by 11 authors

The myths and folk tales of the whole world make clear that the refusal is essentially a refusal to give up what one takes to… — Joseph Campbell
Bare Foot Folk and is full of really interesting songs, Ange Hardy takes folk tales and creates new folk songs that sound traditional around the… — Mike Harding
It is only in folk tales, children's stories, and the journals of intellectual opinion that power is used wisely and well to destroy evil. The… — Noam Chomsky
They were written on cheap blue notebooks bought by poor women. I'm interested in folk tales in the way that medicine and magic in women's… — Alice Hoffman
The tricky or boastful gods of ancient myths and primitive folk tales are characters of the same kind that turn up in Faulkner or Tennessee… — Northrop Frye
Over the centuries we have transformed the ancient myths and folk tales and made them into the fabric of our lives. Consciously and unconsciously we… — Jack Zipes
There's a long history of anthropomorphic animals in Japanese literature. The so-called 'funny animal scrolls' were the first narratives in Japanese history, and the heroes… — Stan Sakai
Mama, Mama, help me get home I'm out in the woods, I am out on my own. I found me a werewolf, a nasty old… — Lauren Oliver
For most of human history, 'literature,' both fiction and poetry, has been narrated, not written â€” heard, not read. So fairy tales, folk tales, stories… — Angela Carter
Fairy tales and folk tales have always played a role in my writing in one way or another. — Linn Ullmann
The theatre has always been voraciously omnivorous. Dramatists have always raided every medium to find grist to their mill: myths, folk tales, newspapers, novels, films,… — Lee Hall
I also like the whole idea of fairy tales and folk tales being a woman's domain, considered a lesser domain at the time they were… — Alice Hoffman

Who Wrote These Folk Tales Quotes

11 authors contributed a total of 12 Folk Tales Quotes as follows: