Tales Quotes - Page 27

• From sentence to sentence, in fairy tales there is no reality that is subordinated to any other. Just as, outside the pages there is no reality.

  Kate Bernheimer

  Reality, Pages, Fairy Tale

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• The fact that fairy tales remain a literary underdog - undervalued and undermined - even as they shape so many popular stories, redoubles my certainty that it is time for contemporary fairy tales to be celebrated in a popular, literary collection. Fairy tales hold the secret to reading.

  Kate Bernheimer

  Reading, Secret, Underdog

  "My Mother She Killed Me, My Father He Ate Me". Anthology, September 28, 2010.

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• In grammar school they taught me that a frog turning into a prince was a fairy tale. In the university they taught me that a frog turning into a prince was a fact!

  Ron Carlson

  School, Frogs, Taught

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• Mama never thought I was bad kid
  But I got a lot of tales for the grandkids

  100s

  Kids, Hip Hop, Mama

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• I was excited to discover, in this tale by Eliade, the key themes that I most hope to understand better - time, consciousness and the dream-like basis of reality.

  Francis Ford Coppola

  Reality, Keys, Consciousness

  "Romanian drama lures Coppola back to directing". www.theguardian.com. September 23, 2005.

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• Chicago is partly a fairy tale because it's inside one person's head, so that part of it's made up and the rest of it is reality.

  Colleen Atwood

  Reality, Chicago, Fairy Tale

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• The Long and the Short and the Tall made a great impression on me because it was a very ugly tale about the reality of soldiering at a time when we were being gung-ho about the whole thing of war.

  Timothy West

  War, Reality, Long

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• I don't think I've ever written anything even remotely naturalistic. The closest probably would be seen as 'Frankie and Johnny,' and that's only 'cause they eat a sandwich and make an omelet in act two. But it's a romantic fairy tale, and I'm very aware of that. I don't think it helps the actors in my plays to lose themselves in the reality of talking to another person. A good McNally actor always knows he's in a play with an audience.

  Terrence McNally

  Reality, Thinking, Talking

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• One tell-tale sign of a Wingnut: they always confuse partisanship with patriotism.

  John Avlon

  Patriotism, Partisanship

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• There are no footprints on the sea and no road-signs, not a single guard-stone or post, and no bends, only paths of light and dark from which to choose, the choice is always a difficult navigation and the storm's wingspan immeasurable as the depths and the horizon, but the sea holds you in its mighty hand your life is a sea-blue tale of love and death.

  Ase-Marie Nesse

  Life, Dark, Light

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• Does a man of sense run after every silly tale of hobgoblins or fairies, and canvass particularly the evidence? I never knew anyone, that examined and deliberated about nonsense who did not believe it before the end of his enquiries.

  David Hume

  Running, Believe, Silly

  David Hume (1965). “David Hume: Philosophical Historian”, Indianapolis : Bobbs-Merrill

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

  Carol Ann Duffy

  Book, Writing, Fairy Tale

  "Christmas Carol". Interview with Hephzibah Anderson, www.theguardian.com. December 3, 2005.

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• Things can happen in some cities and the tale of them will be interesting:   the same story laid in another city would be ridiculous.

  Frank Norris

  Cities, Interesting, Would Be

  Frank Norris, Donald Pizer (1986). “Novels and Essays”, p.1112, Library of America

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• In Land of Milk and Money, Anthony Barcellos mines rich family history to create a full-blooded tale that readers will find insightful, rewarding, and entertaining.

  John Lescroart

  Land, Insightful, Rich Family

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• Stories come from violence, they come from sex. They come from death. They come from the dark places that everyone has to go to, kind of wants to, or doesn't, but needs to deal with. If you raise a kid to think everything is sunshine and flowers, they're going to get into the real world and die. That's the reason fairy tales are so creepy, because we need to encapsulate these things, to inoculate ourselves against them, so that when we're confronted by the genuine horror that is day-to-day life we don't go insane.

  Joss Whedon

  Sex, Real, Flower

  "Joss Whedon: Conversations". Book by Cynthia Burkhead, March 29, 2011.

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• Do you think if it was the fairy tale about a man who lived inside of a whale and it was religion that Jack built a beanstalk today, you would know the difference? Why do you believe in one fairy tale and not the other? Just because adults told you it was true and they scared you into believing it, at pain of death, at pain of burning in hell.

  Bill Maher

  Pain, Believe, Men

  "Scarborough Country" with Joe Scarborough, www.nbcnews.com. February 15, 2005.

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• Fiction is based on reality unless you're a fairy-tale artist, you have to get your knowledge of life from somewhere. You have to know the material you're writing about before you alter it.

  Hunter S. Thompson

  Writing, Artist, Reality

  "Depp to star in ‘Rum Diary’". Associated Press Interview, www.today.com. November 12, 2003.

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• And, in fact, this is the tale that I would love to write: history is such a romantic place, with its jarveys and urchins and side-buttoned boots. If it would just stay still, I think, and settle down. If it would just stop sliding around in my head.

  Anne Enright

  Writing, Thinking, Boots

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• If the weak hand, that has recorded this tale, has, by its scenes, beguiled the mourner of one hour of sorrow, or, by its moral, taught him to sustain it - the effort, however humble, has not been vain, nor is the writer unrewarded.

  Ann Radcliffe

  Humble, Hands, Effort

  Ann Radcliffe (2015). “The Mysteries of Udolpho: Horror and Romance”, p.665, 谷月社

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• Once the 'portals of the future close - in Amazonia, Siberia or the Arctic - we will find ourselves powerless to affect the outcome of this dreadful tale.

  Mark Lynas

  Climate, Outcomes, Portal

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• Why can't love be a fairy tale?

  Amy Davis

  Emo, Love Is, Fairy Tale

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• Sainthood emerges when you can listen to someone's tale of woe and not respond with a description of your own.

  Andrew Mason

  Listening, Saint, Woe

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• Soon as the evening shades prevail, The moon takes up the wondrous tale, And nightly to the listening earth Repeats the story of her birth.

  Joseph Addison

  Moon, Listening, Stories

  Joseph Addison, Richard Hurd, Henry George Bohn (1872). “The Works of the Right Honourable Joseph Addison”, p.485

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• When I started writing Tales of the City I was one year away from being a mental illness. It wasn't until 1975 that the American Psychiatric Association took homosexuality off the list of mental illnesses - and in many states, including the state of North Carolina where I grew up, homosexuality was a crime. An arrestable crime. It still is, in many parts of the world.

  Armistead Maupin

  Writing, Years, Cities

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• But surely to tell these tall tales and others like them would be to spread the myth, the wicked lie, that the past is always tense and the future, perfect.

  Zadie Smith

  Lying, Past, Perfect

  Zadie Smith (2000). “White teeth”

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