Agree Quote by Jack Driscoll

It is the tale, not he who tells it.

— Stephen King

The story is not in the plot but in the telling.

— Anonymous

...but the tale itself is a trickster and doesn't hesitate to lie. It is anachronistic with a vengeance. It emerges always and everywhere, overt…

— Gregory Maguire

“They say, dead men tell no tale, and yet, We live our lives based on dead men's tale. It is okay to tell tales…

— Abhijit Naskar

“Great novels are above all great fairy tales . . . literature does not tell the truth but makes it up.”

— Vladimir Nabokov

“That is not necessarily bad … but it is limiting. The glory of a good tale is that it is limitless and fluid; a good tale…

— Stephen King

“Tales are not created to tell the truth, the truth as relative as everything else in life”

— أميرة الشربيني Amira Elsherbiny

“These stories were very old, as old as people, and they had survived because they were very powerful indeed. They were the tales that…

— John Connolly

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

I cannot tell how the truth may be; I say the tale as it was said to me.

— Walter Scott

I think that's a hallmark of a really good story that it has readers that it speaks to more than others.

— Erin Morgenstern

“...Myths aren’t fairy tales or legends—they’re an honest attempt to explain mysteries...”

— John Geddes