Literary criticism Quote by Janet Spens

“The Faerie Queene was intended by its author to be a philosophical poem and was so regarded by his contemporaries and immediate successors, whose…

— Janet Spens

“But I'm collecting the story of his life. The real story.' Chronicler made a helpless gesture. 'Without the dark parts it's just some silly…

— Patrick Rothfuss

“Words made faerie tales.”

— Lê Thi Diem Thúy

“Faerie may not always have been the kindest place to live, but it was still my home. I owed it to Gillian, To May,…

— Seanan McGuire

“We have then, in the first part of The Faerie Queene, four of the seven deadly sins depicted in the more important passages of…

— Janet Spens

“She was never going to get used to how much the Faeries seem to stare at her, as if dissecting her and examining the…

— Alexia Purdy

“She had always looked like some confectioner's fantasia, a wee thing created of spun sugar, gossamer light, pale and shimmering, so fragile she might…

— Eloisa James

“She pitied and despised them from the bottom of her heart, as she stood on the soft carpet, looking at the old engraving of…

— Virginia Woolf

“In the middle of the table, against the woven cloths upon the wall, there was a chair under a canopy, and there sat a…

— J.R.R. Tolkien

“Know, Goodwife, that Faerie is shaped by storytellers. Their fantasies, their dreams give my realm life. We were dying, all of us, from the…

— Eugie Foster

Once upon a time, I thought faeries lived only in books, old folktales, and the past. That was before they burst upon my life…

— Brian Froud

“Yes, every evening. Your mother enjoyed it. That evening she chose Inkheart. She always did like tales of adventure – stories full of brightness…

— Cornelia Funke