Tale Quotes

724 quotes by 523 authors

The Wikks are regular kids given a Galactic size challenge. Readers will follow Oliver, Tiffany, and twins, Mason and Austin as they trek through eerie… — Wayne Thomas Batson
Maybe if people can't have an end to their suffering, the next thing they seek for is to know why they suffer. Suffering is a… — Matthew J. Kirby
Home is the place you return to when you have finally lost your soul. Home is the place where life is born, not the place… — Karen Maitland
Trust the tale, not the teller. — David Knopfler
I have nothing against people having work done, it is when I hear tale of girls of 16 queuing up to get bigger breasts, that… — Amanda Burton
Drugs are not the way to the light. They won't lead to a fairy-tale life, they lead to suffering. — Layne Staley
A tale, like the universe, they tell us, expands ceaselessly each time you examine it, until thereâ€™s finally no telling exactly where it begins, or… — Chang-Rae Lee
I learned to separate the story from the writing, probably the most important thing that any storyteller has to learn-that there are a thousand right… — Orson Scott Card
There is, howÂever, a strong empirÂiÂcal reaÂson why we should culÂtiÂvate thoughts that can never be proved. It is that they are known to be… — Carl Jung
Great deeds give choice of many tales. Choose a slight tale, enrich it large, and then let wise men listen — Pindar
To wait so long/And want a man refined and strong/Is not at all uncommon. And yet to wait one hundred years/Without a tear, without a… — Charles Perrault
If history is deprived of the Truth, we are left with nothing but an idle, unprofitable tale. — Polybius
Every civilization that has ever existed has ultimately collapsed. History is a tale of efforts that failed, or aspirations that werenâ€™t realized . So, as… — Henry A. Kissinger
Yuleâ€”Yul log for the Christmas-fire tale-spinnerâ€”of fairy tales that can come true: Yul Brynner. — Marianne Moore
The hero of my tale, whom I love with all the power of my soul, whom I have tried to portray in all his beauty,… — Leo Tolstoy
It [the Earth] was breathtakingly beautiful, like something out of a fairy tale. There is no way to describe the joy of seeing the Earth.… — Valentina Tereshkova
Fantasy is, at its best, the purest access to storytelling that we have. It universalizes a tale, it evokes wonder and timeless narrative power, it… — Guy Gavriel Kay
Only in imaginary experience (in the folk tale, for example), which neutralizes the sense of social realities, does the social world take the form of… — Pierre Bourdieu
Then what shall I write? I can't just write that this happened then this happened then this happened to boring infinitum. I'll let my journal… — David Almond
THE NAME OF THE WIND marks the debut of a writer we would all do well to watch. Patrick Rothfuss has real talent, and his… — Terry Brooks

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