Authentic Quote by Shweta Basu Prasad

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

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

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

— Terri Windling

“Over the last three centuries our historical reception of folk and fairy tales has been so negatively twisted by aesthetic norms, educational standards and…

— Jack Zipes

Folk tales, which are usually written for children, become a bigger lesson for adults.

— Shweta Basu Prasad

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

“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

The study of folklore is largely the study of particular folklore genres: myth, folktale, legend, ballad, proverb, riddle, superstition, etc.

— Alan Dundes

I like narrative storytelling as being part of a tradition, a folk tradition.

— Bruce Springsteen

“Any particular term—myth, legend, saga, folktale, and so forth—tends to be used in so many differing ways by different people that without careful definition…

— R.W.L. Moberly

Folktales are real.

— Italo Calvino

Fairly tales are myths, and myths are only myths because there's a grain of truth in them.

— Silas Weir Mitchell