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Imagination has given us the steam engine, the telephone, the talking-machine, and the automobile, for these things had to be dreamed of before they became… — L. Frank Baum
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
Ever since ROME, OPEN CITY, I have maintained a conscious, determined endeavor to try to understand the world in which I live, in a spirit… — Roberto Rossellini
Frosty the snowman was a jolly happy soul. With a corncob pipe and a button nose and two eyes made out of coal. Frosty the… — Unknown Author
People have been modeling their lives after films for years, but the medium is somehow unsuited to moral lessons, cautionary tales or polemics of any… — Renata Adler
Books are the building blocks of civilization and a people without books are a people without history, a people with no story older than the… — Louis L'Amour
Life is a fairy tale. Live it with wonder and amazement. — Welwyn Wilton Katz
Who would have listened to his tales of woe when his love was the flickering lamp over his own decaying tomb? — Faraaz Kazi
Evolution is a fairy tale for adults — Paul Lemoine
The 'medical examination' to which abductees are said to be subjected, often accompanied by sadistic sexual manipulation, is reminiscient of the medieval tales of encounters… — Jacques Vallee
An Islamic writer recalls her joy in the clothes she wore as a young girl at a wedding: They were always in beautiful bright colors:… — Shelina Zahra Janmohamed
Brendan O’Meara’s Six Weeks in Saratoga is a victory to be savored by those who treasure good writing in general and tales of the track… — Madeleine Blais
A vivid tale of exploration set in a howling, deadly wilderness. — T. J. Stiles
From sentence to sentence, in fairy tales there is no reality that is subordinated to any other. Just as, outside the pages there is no… — Kate Bernheimer
The fact that fairy tales remain a literary underdog-undervalued and undermined-even as they shape so many popular stories, redoubles my certainty that it is time… — Kate Bernheimer
In grammar school they taught me that a frog turning into a prince was a fairy tale. In the university they taught me that a… — Ron Carlson
I was excited to discover, in this tale by Eliade, the key themes that I most hope to understand better time, consciousness and the dreamlike… — Francis Ford Coppola
Chicago is partly a fairy tale because it's inside one person's head, so that part of it's made up and the rest of it is… — Colleen Atwood
The Long and the Short and the Tall made a great impression on me because it was a very ugly tale about the reality of… — Timothy West
I don't think I've ever written anything even remotely naturalistic. The closest probably would be seen as 'Frankie and Johnny,' and that's only 'cause they… — Terrence McNally
One tell-tale sign of a Wingnut: they always confuse partisanship with patriotism. — John Avlon
There are no footprints on the sea and no road-signs, not a single guard-stone or post, and no bends, only paths of light and dark… — Unknown Author
Does a man of sense run after every silly tale of hobgoblins or fairies, and canvass particularly the evidence? I never knew anyone, that examined… — David Hume
I'll be left writing picture books and fairy tales — Carol Ann Duffy

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