Tales Quotes

I have very happy memories of fairy tales. My mother used to take me to the library in Toronto to check out the fairy tales. And she was an actress, so she used to act out for me the different characters in all these fairy tales.

I love cats. I have a lot of cat tales, ha ha, so to speak. A lot of my cats come to me. They show up at my house. I'm kind of a cat lady that way.

I liked Latin, I like languages, I liked all the myths, and the Roman tales that we were required to translate in Latin, and all these interesting people who were never quite what they thought they would be or seemed to be.

The market for short stories is hard to break into, but a magazine editor isn't always looking for big names with which to sell his magazine - they're more willing to try stories by newcomers, if those tales are good.

I can tell you all kinds of moral tales, but fashion and reality are vaguely different.

I found a lot of fairy tales scary. They really didn't sit well with me.

In fairy tales, the children are saved by caring adults. We need more caring adults in the lives of our children.

I began to believe the fairy tales: You know, how we're all out there looking for our magical missing half.

We may have forgotten how to feel. Nobody is teaching us how to live happily ever after, as we've heard in fairy tales.

There are accents in the eye which are not on the tongue, and more tales come from pale lips than can enter an ear. It is both the grandeur and the pain of the remoter moods that they avoid the pathway of sound.

If a secret history of books could be written, and the author's private thoughts and meanings noted down alongside of his story, how many insipid volumes would become interesting, and dull tales excite the reader!

My father leaving the family shaped who I was and how I looked at the world. By the same token, my father telling me fairy tales that he had made up shaped me profoundly, too.

Fairy tales to me are never happy, sweet stories. They're moral stories about overcoming the dark side and the bad.

But are not the dreams of poets and the tales of travellers notoriously false?

Conservatives used to believe in confronting hard truths, not succumbing to comforting fairy tales. Some still do.

While Fledging is a different type of book, The Parable series serve as cautionary tales. I wrote the Parable books because of the direction of the country. You can call it save the world fiction, but it clearly doesn't save anything.

A scientist in his laboratory is not a mere technician: he is also a child confronting natural phenomena that impress him as though they were fairy tales.

There's a long history of anthropomorphic animals in Japanese literature. The so-called 'funny animal scrolls' were the first narratives in Japanese history, and the heroes of many folk tales have animals as their companions.

I always felt and still feel that fairy tales have an emotional truth that is so deep that there are few things that really rival them.

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

Modern morality and manners suppress all natural instincts, keep people ignorant of the facts of nature and make them fighting drunk on bogey tales.

Vulgar and obscene, the papers run rumors daily about people in show business, tales of wicked ways and witless affairs.

I'll be left writing picture books and fairy tales.

Dragons and bridges are very much something out of fairy tales and fantasy.

Men fear death as children fear to go in the dark; and as that natural fear in children is increased by tales, so is the other.

Although by 1851 tales of adventure had begun to seem antiquated, they had rendered a large service to the course of literature: they had removed the stigma, for the most part, from the word novel.

I didn't like fairy tales when I was younger. I found a lot of fairy tales scary. They really didn't sit well with me.

I did my acting performance in 'Roger Rabbit.' I think I did a voice-over also in 'Osmosis Jones' and I directed an episode of my show years ago, 'Tales from the Crypt' and that's my endeavors in the non-producer oriented ranks.

On that other novels followed: but I still wrote fairy tales and dreamy poems of another world.

While we are being fascinated by the tales of famous serial killers and how they were brought to justice, the real serial killer goes about his business with hardly a thought to being caught.