Folk Tales Quotes
12 quotes by 11 authors
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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For most of human history, 'literature,' both fiction and poetry, has been narrated, not written — heard, not read. So fairy tales, folk tales, stories…
— Angela Carter
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Fairy tales and folk tales have always played a role in my writing in one way or another.
— Linn Ullmann
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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
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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: