Early Quote by Joseph Jacobs

I have come to the conclusion that a goodly number of the fables that pass under the name of the Samian slave, Aesop, were…

— Joseph Jacobs

I get a lot of inspiration from research in mythology and folklore, I find that stories people told each other thousands of years ago…

— Cassandra Clare

I get a lot of inspiration from research in mythology and folklore. I find that, you know, stories people told each other thousands of…

— Cassandra Clare

My mother was a children's librarian. I remember when traditional stories were revised for modern audiences until they bore only a nodding acquaintance with…

— Patricia Briggs

Modern storytellers are the descendants of an immense and ancient community of holy people, troubadours, bards, griots, cantadoras, cantors, traveling poets, bums, hags and…

— Clarissa Pinkola Estes

And I remember most of what I know that is good and true and lasting has come not from scholars but from minstrels and…

— Robert James Waller

True stories, autobiographical stories, like some novels, begin long ago, before the acts in the account, before the birth of some of the people…

— Harold Brodkey

As a story teller I have always been fascinated with our legends, these can be re-told time and time again. And there is always…

— Shobana

Up to 1870, it was equally said of France and of Italy that they possessed no folk-tales. Yet, within fifteen years from that date,…

— Joseph Jacobs

I'm only interested in rites of passage stories.

— Pete Townshend

I do not know where to find in any literature, whether ancient or modern, any adequate account of that Nature with which I am…

— Henry David Thoreau

I am very interested in human-interest stories emerging from modern India. I get my inspiration and daily dose by reading the 'Hindustan Times.'

— Vikas Swarup