Attention Quote by Marisa Silver

What I find interesting about folklore is the dialogue it gives us with storytellers from centuries past.

— Terri Windling

“I see folktales and myths as humankind's first stories. They are a kind of collective dreaming, filled with timeless symbols and images we can…

— Marianna Mayer

Folk tales are my favourite form of story telling. They not only just adjust the reader according to the world it is introducing the…

— Shweta Basu Prasad

Over the centuries we have transformed the ancient myths and folk tales and made them into the fabric of our lives. Consciously and unconsciously…

— Jack Zipes

When a culture is not mythologically instructed, not instructed in story that gives us a call, then we start looking for quasi-stories, little toxic…

— Jean Houston

Mystery. The strangeness of place so necessary to some creative spirits. A perfect mixture of the classical utopia and the pagan mystery.

— Dan Simmons

Folktales are real.

— Italo Calvino

I grew up with a lot of fairy tales. And they had an essence of darkness to them.

— Rupert Sanders

A little bit of one story joins onto an idea from another, and hey presto, . . . not old tales but new ones.…

— Salman Rushdie

I've always been fascinated by the grassroots folktale level of a culture, and as a storyteller, I have to follow what seems to be…

— Robin McKinley

The truth is, my folk-lore friends and my Saturday Reviewer differ with me on the important problem of the origin of folk-tales. They think…

— Joseph Jacobs

“All those old myths and legends and fairytales didn't just appear out of nowhere for no good reason, you know.”

— H.M. Forester