Tales Quotes - Page 7

• People gave names to things so they could tell stories about them, goddam fairy tales about children who got out alive.

  Sam Lipsyte

  Children, Names, People

  Sam Lipsyte (2013). “The Fun Parts: Stories”, p.51, Farrar, Straus and Giroux

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• OTHERBOUND is a web of spells and counterspells, but Corinne Duyvis never loses sight of the bodies, minds and all-too-human emotions that absorb the impact of the magical power-plays. It's an action-packed tale of passion, possession and hair-raising leaps from world to world. As you read it, remember to keep breathing.

  Margo Lanagan

  Passion, Impact, Hair

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• Kate Bernheimer's fiction offers a unique and delicate gift, the tempting mirage of a grace that constantly escapes. The Complete Tales of Merry Gold is an exceptional, lovely book, beautifully enigmatic, speaking a language that mysteriously evokes the unspoken.

  Lydia Millet

  Book, Unique, Grace

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• Breathes life into a vital but oft-neglected chapter of our history. Amy Belding Brown has turned an authentic drama of Indian captivity into a compelling, emotionally gripping tale that is at once wrenching and soulful.

  Eliot Pattison

  Drama, Captivity, Amy

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• I wished that, for once, faery tales – real faery tales, not Disney fairy tales – would have a happy ending.

  Julie Kagawa

  Real, Fairy Tale, Happy Endings

  Julie Kagawa (2011). “The Iron Queen”, p.41, Harlequin

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• Be careful, boy. In some tales, the hero gets eaten by the monster after all .

  Julie Kagawa

  Hero, Boys, Monsters

  Julie Kagawa (2015). “Iron Fey Series Volume 2: The Iron Knight\Iron's Prophecy\The Lost Prince\The Iron Traitor”, p.117, Harlequin

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• What do you do when the story changes in midlife? When a tale you have told yourself turns out to be a little untrue, just enough to throw the world off-kilter? It’s like leaving the train at the wrong stop: You are still you, but in a new place, there by accident or grace, and you will need your wits about you to proceed.

  Gail Caldwell

  Grace, Leaving, Needs

  "New Life, No Instructions". Book by Gail Caldwell, wnpr.org. April 2014.

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• You can’t change the tale so that you turned left one day instead of right, or didn’t make the mistake that might have saved your life a day later. We don’t get those choices. The story is what got you here, and embracing its truth is what makes the outcome bearable.

  Gail Caldwell

  Mistake, Choices, One Day

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• By nature, a storyteller is a plagiarist. Everything one comes across - each incident, book, novel, life episode, story, person, news clip - is a coffee bean that will be crushed, ground up, mixed with a touch of cardamom, sometimes a tiny pinch of salt, boiled thrice with sugar, and served as a piping-hot tale.

  Rabih Alameddine

  Coffee, Book, Hot

  "The Blurb #11: A Fresh Eye" by Rabih Alameddine, therumpus.net. October 27, 2009.

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• Listen, my father had written. Listen to hear if they are telling the truth or only part of the truth, for that is the lesson of history: that the victors tell the tale of their triumph in a manner to grant accolades to themselves and heap blame upon their rivals. Ask yourself if part of the story is being withheld by design or ignorance.

  Kate Elliott

  Father, Ignorance, Design

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• The Wikks are regular kids given a Galactic size challenge. Readers will follow Oliver, Tiffany, and twins, Mason and Austin as they trek through eerie catacombs, mysterious ruins, and creepy castles that defy imagination. One part Indiana Jones, a handful of Swiss Family Robinson, and some Intergalactic excitement, the Quest for Truth is a riveting tale of just how far mankind will go for the ultimate prize.

  Wayne Thomas Batson

  Kids, Eerie, Imagination

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• Maybe if people can't have an end to their suffering, the next thing they seek for is to know why they suffer. Suffering is a part of life in this world, part of a cycle....Stories give you a way to see things. A way to understand the events of your life. Even if you don't realize it while you're hearing the tale.

  Matthew J. Kirby

  People, Giving, Suffering

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• Home is the place you return to when you have finally lost your soul. Home is the place where life is born, not the place of your birth, but the place where you seek rebirth. When you no longer have to remember which tale of your own past is true and which is an invention, when you know that you are an invention, then is the time to seek out your home. Perhaps only when you have come to understand that can you finally reach home.

  Karen Maitland

  Home, Past, Soul

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• Trust the tale, not the teller.

  David Knopfler

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• My father loved biographies. He loved the true tales of interesting people that were shaping our culture. I get why he dug Vanity Fair. You feel smarter, somehow, for reading it.

  Abigail Spencer

  Father, Reading, Vanity

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• I have nothing against people having work done, it is when I hear tale of girls of 16 queuing up to get bigger breasts, that is when I despair.

  Amanda Burton

  Girl, People, Despair

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• Next time I go to a movie and see a picture of a little ordinary girl become a great star… I’ll believe it. And whenever I hear my wife read fairy tales to my little boy, I’ll listen. I know now that dreams do come true.

  Jackie Robinson

  Girl, Dream, Stars

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• This packrat has learned that what the next generation will value most is not what we owned, but the evidence of who we were and the tales of how we loved. In the end, it's the family stories that are worth the storage.

  Ellen Goodman

  Stories, Next, Generations

  "Spring cleaning our lives" by Ellen Goodman, www.sfgate.com. April 13, 2002.

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• If you don't recount your family history, it will be lost. Honor your own stories and tell them too. The tales may not seem very important, but they are what binds families and makes each of us who we are.

  Madeleine L'Engle

  Family, Honor, Important

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• Drugs are not the way to the light. They won't lead to a fairy-tale life, they lead to suffering.

  Layne Staley

  Reality, Light, Addiction

  "Layne Staley Unchained". Pandemonium Magazine, Vol#29, April 1995.

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• A tale, like the universe, they tell us, expands ceaselessly each time you examine it, until there’s finally no telling exactly where it begins, or ends, or where it places you now.

  Chang-Rae Lee

  Ends, Universe

  Chang-rae Lee (2014). “On Such a Full Sea: A Novel”, p.42, Penguin

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• The great subversive works of children's literature suggest that there are other views of human life besides those of the shopping mall and the corporation. They mock current assumptions and express the imaginative, unconventional, noncommercial view of the world in its simplest and purest form. They appeal to the imaginative, questioning, rebellious child within all of us, renew our instinctive energy, and act as a force for change. This is why such literature is worthy of our attention and will endure long after more conventional tales have been forgotten.

  Alison Lurie

  Children, Views, Shopping

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• People, fearing their own extinction, are willing to accept and perpetuate hand-me-down answers to the meaning of life and death; and, fearing a weakening of the tribal structures that sustain them, reinforce with their tales the conventional notions of justice, freedom, law and order, nature, family, etc. The writer, lone rider, has the power, if not always the skills, wisdom, or desire, to disturb this false contentment.

  Robert Coover

  Hands, Order, Law

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• When I see throughout this book, called the Bible, a history of the grossest vices and a collection of the most paltry and contemptible tales and stories, I could not so dishonor my Creator by calling it by His name.

  Thomas Paine

  Book, Names, Religion

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• I learned to separate the story from the writing, probably the most important thing that any storyteller has to learn-that there are a thousand right ways to tell a story, and ten million wrong ones, and you're a lot more likely to find one of the latter than the former your first time through the tale.

  Orson Scott Card

  Writing, Important, Stories

  Orson Scott Card (2013). “The Ender Quintet”, p.20, Macmillan

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