Century Quote by Terri Windling

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 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

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

— Shweta Basu Prasad

I love studying folklore and legends. The stories that people passed down for a thousand years without any sort of marketing support are obviously…

— Tim Schafer

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

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

“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 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

“myths reflect centuries of oral tradition in non-literate as well as literate peoples – when it comes to the supernatural, there's no beating folklore.”…

— Kailin Gow

In my introductory course, Anthropology 160, the Forms of Folklore, I try to show the students what the major and minor genres of folklore…

— Alan Dundes

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

— Alan Dundes

One of the best things about folklore and fairy tales is that the best fantasy is what you find right around the corner, in…

— Terri Windling