Folktales Quote by Italo Calvino

While writing 'Cold Mountain,' I held maps of two geographies, two worlds, in my mind as I wrote. One was an early map of…

— Charles Frazier

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…

— Jane Hirshfield

The protagonist of folktale is always, and intensely, a young person moving through ordeals into adult life. . . . and this is why…

— Jill Paton Walsh

Not surprisingly, thinkers from groups for whom whiteness was and is a problem have taken the lead in studying whiteness in this way. Such…

— David Roediger

“I love children. Eating them, that is.”

— Keith McGowan

“The old folktales from Mexico often have the same beginning. "One day a man met the devil in the road," or "The devil came…

— Elise Forier Edie

In The Jack Daniels Sessions, folktales and modern landscapes collide, exploding and reforming in the form of an intriguing and intelligent collection. Cotman seizes…

— Cat Rambo

“There were good places and bad places to tell stories and there were of course stories that could not be told in any place…

— Gerald Hausman

But this is a story, and in a story there is always someone beautiful enough." - 'The Girl with Two Skins' from A Guide…

— Catherynne M. Valente

Things, very strange things, happen in folktales and there is never much attention given to the whys and wherefores.

— Marisa Silver

“In these evenings he sat by our beds weaving folktales like vivid little scarves.”

— Naomi Shihab Nye

“A storm in Scotland was like nothing she'd ever experienced in London. Here, the elements felt alive, sentient. This storm was a raging monster…

— Karen Ranney