Analysis Quote by Joan Gould

His whole being radiates a pure, wild sweetness, flitting through night woods with little melodious cries, on some cryptic errand. There is also an…

— William S. Burroughs

“Rumpel kissed as he lived his life—without rules or conscience.”

— Vivian Arend

“Can you believe the man rhymed 'Rumplestiltskin' with 'crumpled napkins'?”

— Christopher Healy

“Troubles of Straw Spun Into Gold Just as in the fairy tale RUMPELSTILTSKIN, God will spin your straw into gold. You won’t know how…

— Cheryl Zelenka

“Once we have seen Him in a stable, we can never be sure where He will appear or to what lengths he will go…

— Frederick Buechner

“His intellect made increasing sense of this: there had been an ambush, he was underground, and since his body didn’t feel as if it…

— C.S. Pacat

“What people saw when he appeared before them, then, was not really him, but a person he had invented, an artificial creature he could…

— Paul Auster

“Now, though, there was a second part, an artifact of his recent illness, as if his melancholy had, in a universe adjacent to this…

— Garth Risk Hallberg

Rumpty!" he muttered, which was very rude if you were one of the few people in the universe who understood what it meant.

— Paul Cornell

“he does not wear a twitching, mobile, human face, but rather a mask, as it were, with its features in dignified equilibrium; he does…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

“If ever he had harboured a conscience in his tough narrow breast he had by now dug out and flung away the awkward thing…

— Mervyn Peake

“They had a lurking suspicion even, that he died of secret love; though I must say there was a picture of him in the…

— Charles Dickens