Top 1200 Fairy Stories Quotes & Sayings - Page 13

My dad was a journalist. He was in Rwanda right after the genocide. In Berlin when the wall came down. He was always disappearing and coming back with amazing stories. So telling stories for a living made sense to me.

If you find my stories dirty, the society you are living in is dirty. With my stories, I only expose the truth

I think indie films are really important, because they show the studios and the audiences when they see them, great stories. Really interesting, small stories.

We don't run out of stories, because of the characters. But also every year, the NFL, like a crazy rich uncle we never see, just drops some stories off at our door.

Getting to share the stories in my head with other people and have them enjoy those stories, and having them come to see my characters as real. That's so cool.

We live in a world where bad stories are told, stories that teach us life doesn't mean anything and that humanity has no great purpose. It's a good calling, then, to speak a better story. How brightly a better story shines. How easily the world looks to it in wonder. How grateful we are to hear these stories, and how happy it makes us to repeat them.

The best stories in our culture have some sort of subversiveness - Mark Twain, 'Catcher in the Rye.' You provide kids with great stories and teach them how to use the tools to make their own.

So many of us are hungry for stories with more racial diversity, more truth in representation, and I am anxious to help tell those stories in the future.

At the centre of every fairy tale lay a truth that gave the story its power

There is not a single homely thing that, looked at from a certain angle, does not become fairy.

Word spread because word will spread. Stories and secrets fight, stories win, shed new secrets, which new stories fight, and on.

'Aye Zindagi' is a show which is about stories inspired by real-life incidents. You might be able to relate to these stories, as it can be about anyone around you.

These are the stories of travelers on a spiritual quest between worlds. Part mythmaker, part poet, Omar Castaeda is an original, and these stories are unlike any in our literature.

I'm a great believer in fairy tales. I think it is important to have something you can lose yourself in.

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

The video game market is huge, and the ability to tell stories, and tell different kinds of stories in the gaming space is quickly evolving and changing for the better.

I grew up reading - and loving - stories by Andre Norton. I admired and idolised her from afar. Her stories helped shape my own internal world.

Everything is for sale in Hollywood; the fairy tale, the costume, the pumpkin, the footman and the mice.

Fairy Tales always have a happy ending.' That depends... on whether you are Rumpelstiltskin or the Queen.

I don't want to be a propagandist, no matter how good the cause. I want to tell stories. It's just that the stories have to square with my consciousness as a woman and my conscience as a human being.

It's really humbling and gratifying to see that people are finally realizing that we are talented and we have things to say and that our stories are just like your stories. There's no reason that anybody from Wisconsin or Turkey can't relate to 'Atlanta.'

I grew up with a lot of fairy tales. And they had an essence of darkness to them.

I think that people create the world that they live in. Your existence is very subjective, and you tell stories and organize the world outside of you into these stories to help you understand it.

What I really would like to see is more female stories out there. Particularly older female stories, because women are predominantly ticket-buyers.

The only thing that I am trying to do is to find stories that I like, stories that are meaningful and that can connect and question, since I am not 18 years old anymore.

By fairy hands their knell is rung; By forms unseen their dirge is sung.

Even if I never sold another book, I'd keep writing, because the stories are here, in my head. Stories that just need to be told. I love watching a plot unfold, and feeling the surprise when the unexpected happens.

It's a really important thing for Aboriginal people to remember how stories are told and the power of stories, and make it an important feature in our world again.

I regret the stories we didn't do - the stories that we knew about and talked about but didn't have all of, so didn't publish. The whole idea of Gawker was to remove the barrier between the thought and the talk - and the page.

'Star Wars' is more fairy tale than true science fiction.

I have a book in the pipeline of short stories. You want to hear an agent scream, say 'I'm thinking about doing a collection of short stories set in the Ozarks.

So writing stories is not easier in comparison to the playwriting or translation; the stories are easier in league with them.

When I discovered that I could write music, it felt like the most natural way for me to connect with people and tell my stories. I've always thought of that as what I do: I tell stories.

My best clients tell stories that inspire. They tell stories about situations that you can identify with.

My favorite thing in the world is telling stories, and most of what I do is telling stories through music.

'Crystal Fairy' was one of the first movies I did after I recommitted to the idea of acting.

I liked myths. They weren't adult stories and they weren't children stories. They were better than that. They just were. Adult stories never made sense, and they were slow to start. They made me feel like there were secrets, Masonic, mythic secrets, to adulthood. Why didn't adults want to read about Narnia, about secret islands and smugglers and dangerous fairies?

If we take seriously the idea that the stories we want to hear shape the stories we can (and want to, and are allowed to) tell, then the canon emerges as something to examine very carefully.

I always wanted the fairy tale, but now I want someone who is a great partner.

The U.S. is a rainbow of people with an endless scope of stories. My hope is that writing stories about people of color will become instinctual rather than something to be pushed for.

To fairy flutes, As the light advances, In square black boots The cabman dances.

Whenever Disney asks if you want to do a fairy tale musical, you say yes.

A peace agreement isn't like a fairy story. You don't live happily ever after.

Print reporters have the opportunity to go so much more in depth in certain stories than television reporters do because they're working on stories for months at a time.

I'm great at telling stories with the kids. I do all my different accents. We make our own stories up all the time, the four of us, me and Hannah and the kids.

I've always wanted to be a writer. Ever since I learned to read, I've wanted to share stories with others the way my favorite writers shared their stories with me.

The facts didn't matter. Their stories mattered, and each of their stories belonged to each of them alone.

The first fiction I ever wrote was short stories. I was writing short stories in my late teens and early twenties, and I think it's how you teach yourself to write.

Because I am still a little girl who believes in Santa and the tooth fairy and you.

I have a book in the pipeline of short stories. You want to hear an agent scream, say 'I'm thinking about doing a collection of short stories set in the Ozarks.'

Somehow the idea of Montgomery as a fairy doesn't have the same effect on me as it appears to have on you. -Raphael

As a kid, I was always the jokester. I was telling stories at dinner and trying to make people laugh. I guess I've always just been naturally inclined to tell stories.

I remember when I was about 12, I read M. R. James' 'Ghost Stories Of An Antiquary' under the covers, way too young to fully understand what was going on with those stories - completely terrified but absolutely loved them.

I've written over 100 short stories. You could say I'm obsessed with short stories.

Jack Vance's Lyonesse books are the greatest fairy tale of the twentieth century.

We were innocent victims. (Angelia) Yeah, and I’m the tooth fairy. (Bride)

It is important to tell good stories. You can tell stories even if they are not huge, epic, and wonderful. You can still take the responsibility for being a scribe of your tribe.

The bad mood fairy comes to annoy you only when you are actually in a good position, but don't yet realise it!

Diversity in literature is, in part, about representation - who is telling the stories and who stories are told about.

Why should we strive, with cynic frown, to knock their fairy castles down?