Compare Quote by Charles de Lint Download Open image “There are few joys to compare with the telling of a well-told tale.” — Charles de Lint ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.2 out of 5 (3 ratings) Copy quoteShare Compare Happiness Storytelling
The glory of a good tale is that it is limitless and fluid; a good tale belongs to each reader in its own particular… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
It's very joyful to be in a productive, creative mood, but I find a lot of joy in learning and being told stories. — Evelyne Brochu Copy Share Image
From a tale one expects a bit of wildness, of exaggeration and dramatic effect. The tale has no inherent concern with decorum, balance or… — Peter Straub Copy Share Image
There's a joy in writing short stories, a wonderful sense of reward when you pull certain things off. — Tobias Wolff Copy Share Image
Fairy tales to me are never happy, sweet stories. They're moral stories about overcoming the dark side and the bad. — Joe Wright Copy Share Image
Talk about the joys of the unexpected, can they compare with the joys of the expected, of finding everything delightfully and completely what you… — Elizabeth Bibesco Copy Share Image
I've always been into having stories told to me. I was a voracious reader, my father was also a teller of tales; and the… — Damon Lindelof Copy Share Image
Present joys are more to flesh and blood Than a dull prospect of a distant good. — John Dryden Copy Share Image
As a reader, I don't feel a story has an obligation to make me happy. I want stories to show me a bigger world… — John Green Copy Share Image
I am not a storyteller . . . not like the others. I only have one tale to tell. — Kate Morton Copy Share Image
The trouble with telling a good story is that it invariably reminds the other fellow of a dull one. — Sid Caesar Copy Share Image
The family we choose for ourselves is more important than the one we were born into; that people have to earn our respect and… — Charles de Lint Copy Share Image
Every time you do a good deed you shine the light a little farther into the dark. And the thing is, when you're gone… — Charles de Lint Copy Share Image
The road leading to a goal does not separate you from the destination; it is essentially a part of it. — Charles de Lint Copy Share Image
“Maybe she couldn’t go. Maybe she wanted him to stay. But she knew enough not to try to hold him back if he had… — Charles de Lint Copy Share Image
The magic in this world seems to work in whispers and small kindnesses. — Charles de Lint Copy Share Image
You can take the woman outta the trash, but you can't take the trash out a the woman. — Charles de Lint Copy Share Image
“You hear this kind of thing, rednecks and their guys and--" "Don't call them that," I say. "They're just assholes. Most people you run… — Charles de Lint Copy Share Image
Fortune-telling doesn't reveal the future; it mirrors the present. It resonates against what your subconscious already knows and hauls it up out of the… — Charles de Lint Copy Share Image
When you're touched by magic, nothing's ever quite the same again. What really makes me sad is all those people who never have the… — Charles de Lint Copy Share Image
How hard would it be to ask children what they see in their heads? How big should the house be in comparison to the… — Charles de Lint Copy Share Image
... we chase after ghosts and spirits and are left holding only memories and dreams. It's not that we want what we can't have;… — Charles de Lint Copy Share Image
Writing music uses a whole different process that involves a lot of noodling and just seeing what comes. — Charles de Lint Copy Share Image
I have touched with a sense of art some people-they felt the love and the life. Can you offer me anything to compare to… — Mary Cassatt Copy Share Image
I think, however, that Astaire's coordination is better than Kelly's... his sense of rhythm is uncanny. Kelly, on the other hand, is the stronger… — Cyd Charisse Copy Share Image
To fashion stars out of dog dung, that is the Great Work. To take a negative experience and, by comparing it to something worse,… — Alexandra David-Neel Copy Share Image
Rien ne se peut comparer a' Paris. Nothing can compare to Paris. — Eustache Deschamps Copy Share Image
Some twins feel like they need to compare themselves to each other, but we're not that way. That's because of my parents, though, and… — Ashley Olsen Copy Share Image
One of my favorite poets, Neruda, writes close to the bone. Though I know only a little Spanish, I like to compare the Spanish… — Anita Diament Copy Share Image
Nothing will kill what you've been called to do more than comparing yourself to someone else. — Beth Moore Copy Share Image
Once an activity has been socialized, it is impossible to point out, by concrete example, how men in a free market could better conduct… — Leonard Read Copy Share Image
Don't compare your career to anyone else's. It's tough when you're in a business that's competitive. I was having a difficult time with that… — Danielle Brooks Copy Share Image
The terrorists-those nineteen people, with hundreds or maybe thousands behind them-did the worst thing you can possibly imagine. But tens of millions people did… — David Levithan Copy Share Image
Nobody can really compare a relationship in which the victim is 15 years old to one where she's 6. While both criminal, they're very different circumstances. — Steven Wright Copy Share Image
