Folktales Quotes
10 quotes by 10 authors
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Once upon a time, I thought faeries lived only in books, old folktales, and the past. That was before they burst upon my life as…
— Brian Froud
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In The Jack Daniels Sessions, folktales and modern landscapes collide, exploding and reforming in the form of an intriguing and intelligent collection. Cotman seizes the…
— Cat Rambo
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History, mythology, and folktales are filled with stories of people punished for saying the truth. Only the Fool, exempt from society's rules, is allowed to…
— Jane Hirshfield
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The protagonist of folktale is always, and intensely, a young person moving through ordeals into adult life. . . . and this is why there…
— Jill Paton Walsh
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I've always been fascinated by the grassroots folktale level of a culture, and as a storyteller, I have to follow what seems to be leading…
— Robin McKinley
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While writing 'Cold Mountain,' I held maps of two geographies, two worlds, in my mind as I wrote. One was an early map of North…
— Charles Frazier
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After all, is it not the way we humans shape the universe, shape time itself? Do we not take the raw stuff of chaos and…
— Tad Williams
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But this is a story, and in a story there is always someone beautiful enough." - 'The Girl with Two Skins' from A Guide to…
— Catherynne M. Valente
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Once upon a time . . .†“In the beginning was . . .†That’s the way it always starts off. Every story, gospel, history,…
— Steven Tyler
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Folktales are real.
— Italo Calvino
Who Wrote These Folktales Quotes
10 authors contributed a total of 10 Folktales Quotes as follows: