tales Quotes

Because of my capacity for listening to strangers\' tales, or the details of their lives, my patience with their food and their crotchets, my curiosity that borders on nosiness, I am told that anyone traveling with me experiences an unbelievable tedium, and this is why I choose to travel alone.

I was more aware initially of shows like Tales of the Unexpected. And the BBC used to put on a lot of one-off, bizarre television plays.

I liked that sort of thing, those one-off stories like \'Tales of the Unexpected,\' \'Hammer House of Horror,\' \'The Twilight Zone\' and \'Alfred Hitchcock Presents.\'

I grew up on EC comic books and \'Tales From the Crypt,\' which were all loaded with humor, bad jokes, and puns. I can have that kind of fun and make these comic book movies but, at the same time, talk about things I want to talk about - whether it\'s consumerism or the Bush administration or war.

I think that Shakespeare himself raided fairy tales and chronicle writers, and he always looked to people who worked in the mythic genres, whether it was folk tales or popular novels.

\'The Tales\' are an important part of \'Hollow City,\' when the kids discover secrets encoded in them that end up saving their lives. I wrote two tales as part of \'Hollow City,\' and spent the next couple of years finishing the trilogy but itching to write more tales.

Fairy tales and folk tales are part of the DNA of all stories and great fun to write.

I mentioned before, these [classic Disney films] are classic mythological tales, a hero\'s journey, and have been told for thousands of years. Disney has d them, and made them accessible for us.

Why were so many Americans treated by their government as though their lives were as disposable as facial tissues? Because that was the way authors customarily treated bit-part players in their made-up tales.

I read a lot of \'The Canterbury Tales\' on my phone last year, because I was cycling between three different editions, and I needed to have a middle-of-the-night edition for the insomniac reading.

Of all the arts, fairy tales are the most important for us.

Commoners consider bold plans to be fairy tales. The winners make fairy tales come true.

He who would tell divers tales must know how to vary the tune.

I became a writer, a teller of tales, because otherwise I would have died... or worse.

The tricky or boastful gods of ancient myths and primitive folk tales are characters of the same kind that turn up in Faulkner or Tennessee Williams.

People don't like the true and simple; they like fairy tales and humbug.

I used to write my own versions of famous tales, such as William Tell or Robin Hood, and illustrate them myself, too. When I entered my teens, I got more into horror and science fiction and wrote a lot of short stories. A literary education complicated things and for many years I wrote nothing but poetry. Then I got back to story-telling.

People say, \'Look, your book [Tales and Wisdom from Duck Dynasty's Favorite Uncle] is about tall tales.\' And I said, \'No, you don't understand, OK? The book is tall tales, OK, by me. But look, those tall tales are my life, OK? And look, I added some spices in there. That's the five percent. You know the one about the wolves chasing me? The only thing about that - they wasn't wolves, they was coyotes\'.

I'm sure you can even find mГ©nage Г  trois in medieval tales.

I had Paterson, and The Art Lover, to guide me for The Tales of Horror (written from 1988-'97 and published in 1999), but I still was so lost, back then, as I tried to understand what I was writing and how it went together. There was a draft of that manuscript that had all these brightly colored paper clips on the pages so I could visualize what I saw as the book's themes and threads - that was a long time ago.

Children are natural mythologists: they beg to be told tales, and love not only to invent but to enact falsehoods.

I am concerned with a certain way of looking at life, which was created in me by the fairy tales, but has since been meekly ratified by the mere facts.

I had a story-telling mother; she's written novels and short stories. So I feel like maybe I'm staying alive by telling tales.

In college, I became interested in folk tales and fairy tales. Gradually I became more and more interested in the underlying meaning of it all and the possibility of the reality of real fairies.

Everyone would tell me they couldn't identify with sexual abuse. No one says they can't identify with the tales of the Greek gods and goddesses because they don't live on Mt. Olympus.

Many fairy tales and ballads present us with animals who are nobler, truer, and kinder than the greedy human beings who desire to possess them. I guess I tend to read these stories as very early (and possibly unconscious) feminist texts.

When fairy tales are written in the west, they're known as folklore. In the east, fairy tales are called religions.

The reason that stepmothers are often the bad guy in fairy tales is because people died in childbirth, all the time, so fathers remarried and there would be a struggle between the children and the new wife, in terms of who would inherit what.

There are these mythic unicorn-y tales of method acting, but Marlon [Brando] wanted to have a good time.

I don't believe in fairy tales, but I believe in you and me