quotes about Folktales

last updated: November 28, 2023

Things, very strange things, happen in folktales and there is never much attention given to the whys and wherefores.
-- Marisa Silver

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“Don't write the book you think publishers want to commission. Plenty of other writers will be doing the same thing.”
“Atheism is a crutch for those who cannot bear the reality of God.”

Source : Tom Stoppard (2013). “Jumpers”, p.51, Faber & Faber
“If I take the theory as we have it now, literally, I would conclude that extra dimensions really exist. They're part of nature. We don't really know how big they are yet, but we hope to explore that in various ways.”
“This world and the world to come are two enemies. We cannot therefore be friends to both; but we must decide which we will forsake and which we will enjoy.”
“When you are lonely, writing can keep you company. It is also a form of self-compensation, a way of making up for thingsâ€”as opposed to making things upâ€”that did not quite happen.”

Source : Geoff Dyer (2007). “Yoga for People Who Can't Be Bothered to Do It”, p.13, Vintage
“I sometimes compare press officers to riflemen on the Somme -- mowing down wave upon wave of distortion, taking out rank upon rank of supposition, deduction and gossip.”
“That subtle knot which makes us man So must pure lovers souls descend T affections, and to faculties, Which sense may reach and apprehend, Else a great Prince in prison lies.”
“By itself, an ordinary snapshot is no less banal than the petite madeleine in Proust's In Search of Lost Time... but as goad to memory, it is often the first integer in a sequence of recollections that has the power to deny time for the sake of love.”
“The greatest thing by far is to have a command of metaphor. This alone cannot be imparted by another; it is the mark of genius, for to make good metaphors implies an eye for resemblances.”
“I wanted to play music from the age of seven. I suddenly fell in love with it and that's what I was going to do, or to be involved with music. It was just speaking to me at a level that as a seven year old I suddenly realized the world was capable of supporting in my head a lot more than what I was understanding verbally and visually.”