Become 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

Folk tales are the most authentic way of understanding a region, its legend and people.

— Shweta Basu Prasad

“Fairy tales and folk tales are for children and childlike people, not because they are little and inconsequential, but because they are as enormous…

— Anthony Esolen

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

Fairy tales and folk tales have always played a role in my writing in one way or another.

— Linn Ullmann

“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

“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

Many people think fairy tales and retellings of fairy tales are only for children, but I'm not the only writer to take an old…

— Kate Forsyth

Reading fairytales to children expands their imaginations.

— Robert Lepage

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

— Terri Windling

Fables should be taught as fables, myths as myths, and miracles as poetic fantasies. To teach superstitions as truths is a most terrible thing.…

— Hypatia

Though now we think of fairy tales as stories intended for very young children, this is a relatively modern idea. In the oral tradition,…

— Terri Windling