Enlisted Quote by William Cowper

“The storyteller has always been a valuable member of society. Even in prehistoric times when men hunted wild beasts and lived in caves they…

— D.E. Stevenson

One of the things that I intend to devote a lot of time to in the coming years is continuing to try to move…

— Ted Cruz

What I often do in my work is to take a great story, such as the Odyssey, the search for the Grail, the story…

— Jean Houston

Tales are sometimes written in order to relate to real life situations that people have.

— Saaif Alam

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

— Linn Ullmann

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

There are several kinds of stories, but only one difficult kind-the humorous.

— Mark Twain

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

— 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 often forget that other people's stories aren't simply introductions to my own more engaging, more dramatic, more relevant, and better-told tales, but rather…

— Will Schwalbe

The truest tales require time and familiarity to become what they are.

— Erin Morgenstern

“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