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Then there was Clark Ashton Smith, who wrote for Weird Tales and who had a wild imagination. He wasn't a very talented writer, but his imagination was wonderful.
Jack Vance

Wonderful, Weird, Writer

I love cats. I have a lot of cat tales, ha ha, so to speak. A lot of my cats come to me. They show up at my house. I'm kind of a cat lady that way.
Gina Gershon

Love, Speak, Show

While we are being fascinated by the tales of famous serial killers and how they were brought to justice, the real serial killer goes about his business with hardly a thought to being caught.
Pat Brown

Business, Famous, Justice

Look at Jane Austen. Her characters derive in a reasonably straight line from fairy tales.
Andrew Davies

Her, Line, Characters

On that other novels followed: but I still wrote fairy tales and dreamy poems of another world.
Laurence Housman

Another, Fairy, Novels

The son has always felt like he was a footnote in one of the stories the father tells. The father is an amazing storyteller and one of the tales that he tells is how he met his wife.
Danny DeVito

Amazing, Wife, Father

There's a long history of anthropomorphic animals in Japanese literature. The so-called 'funny animal scrolls' were the first narratives in Japanese history, and the heroes of many folk tales have animals as their companions.
Stan Sakai

Funny, History, Long

My grandmother was born in 1900, and she would regale me with tales I call 'Little House on the Prairie' tales, but they were tales of segregated and racist America growing up in Alabama and Mississippi, where she came from.
David Alan Grier

America, She, Born

Definitely they write themselves. It's an amazing experience. It's like the characters have come alive and are sitting on my shoulder talking to me, telling me their tales.
R. A. Salvatore

Experience, Amazing, Write

I began to believe the fairy tales: You know, how we're all out there looking for our magical missing half.
Michael Bergin

Looking, Missing, Half

My father leaving the family shaped who I was and how I looked at the world. By the same token, my father telling me fairy tales that he had made up shaped me profoundly, too.
Kate DiCamillo

Family, Father, Made

He who would tell divers tales must know how to vary the tune.
Marie de France

Tell, Tune, Divers

Dragons and bridges are very much something out of fairy tales and fantasy.
John Howe

Fantasy, Fairy, Bridges

I don't have any great first job tales: I've never worked on a tramp steamer or in a coal mine or anything like that. I think the inspiration for my writing came largely from my father and the joy that life in books represented to me.
Mary Gordon

Life, Great, Father

Eye-popping tales of growing income inequality are hardly new. By now, nearly every American must be painfully aware of the widening pay gap between top executives and shop floor laborers; between 'Master of the Universe' financiers and pretty much everyone else.
Steven Rattner

Pretty, Else, Between

I like being scared, so I've always liked fairy tales because they're kind of creepy.
Lana Parrilla

Scared, Liked, Fairy

Neurologists say that our brains are programmed much more for stories than for abstract ideas. Tales with a little drama are remembered far longer than any slide crammed with analytics.
John P. Kotter

Far, Ideas, Longer

Recasting fairy tales has become a publishing sub-genre in itself, and has been done both well and to the point of entropy. More interesting are those works where the structures of fairytales are abandoned but the world of 'fairy' is imported as a delicate spice.
Graham Joyce

Done, Become, Point

People don't like the true and simple; they like fairy tales and humbug.
Edmond de Goncourt

True, Simple, Fairy

I like the fact that kids are willing to be imaginative and go along with me when I'm telling strange tales.
Margaret Haddix

Strange, Kids, Fact

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

Darkness, Fairy, Essence

The market for short stories is hard to break into, but a magazine editor isn't always looking for big names with which to sell his magazine - they're more willing to try stories by newcomers, if those tales are good.
Eric Brown

Good, Hard, Try

Ireland is where strange tales begin and happy endings are possible.
Charles Haughey

Happy, Strange, Possible

Although by 1851 tales of adventure had begun to seem antiquated, they had rendered a large service to the course of literature: they had removed the stigma, for the most part, from the word novel.
Carl Clinton Van Doren

Service, Word, Adventure

Crime stories are our version of sitting round a camp fire and telling tales. We enjoy being scared under safe circumstances. That's why there's no tradition of crime writing in countries that have wars.
Camilla Lackberg

Writing, Fire, Enjoy

Thanks to nanny, I've got a deep understanding of Russian tales.
Modest Mussorgsky

Deep, Thanks, Russian

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