There's no limit to what you can dream. You expect the unexpected, you believe in magic, in fairy tales, and in possibilities. Then you grow older and that innocence is shattered and somewhere along the way the reality of life gets in the way and you're hit by the realization that you can't be all you wanted to be, you just might have to settle for a little bit less.
Dead women tell no tales. Sad men write them down.
Writing imaginative tales for the young is like sending coals to Newcastle. For coals.
Uncertainty in the pressure of vivid hopes and fears is painful, but must be endured if we wish to live without the support of comforting fairy tales.
But tales like this must not be taken as truth. You must remind yourself that it is hard to tell where truth ends and a lie begins. So listen all you like, but disbelieve all you hear. . . You are in the city of lies.
Who tells a finer tale than any of us. Silence does.
I loved him, but love isn't enough. All the fairy tales, the romance novels, the soap operas; they're all lies. Love does not conquer all.
Life to me is a bit of a (Brothers) Grimm fairy tale.
If history is deprived of the Truth, we are left with nothing but an idle, unprofitable tale.
Children are natural mythologists: they beg to be told tales, and love not only to invent but to enact falsehoods.
There are some tales not for telling, whether because they are too long, too precious, too laughable, too painful, too easy to need telling or too hard to explain. After all, after years and travels my secrets are all I have left to chew on in the night.
There never was a scandalous tale without some foundation.
It could have been like a fairy tale. But fairy tales aren't real. Things don't work like that. There's a price for everything.
The tales are quite hard to remember and I found that going back to it between bouts of writing fiction, I was having to retrace my steps quite a lot, because the stories are very intricate and the material is elusive, and possibly with age, my memory is not as malleable as it used to be.
I'm not certain that I draw from any one culture more than others. Many myths and legends of many different cultures are really the same story when you get to the heart of it. They are often cultural cautionary tales about how we should behave and how we should live.
Overnight Success Happens Only in Fairy Tales, Trashy Novels, and Bad Movies.
We have been poisoned by fairy tales.
I love memoirs, particularly obscure ones because the writer is usually a regular guy just telling what happened to him and to his friends. What these tales lack in artfulness they make up for in passion and authenticity. For a writer of fiction, they are solid gold. I have stolen so much from memoirs it's ridiculous.
I don't believe in fairy tales, but I believe in you and me
With thee all tales are sweet; each clime has charms; earth - sea alike - our world within our arms.