Quotes About Inspiration

God has given us these talents and we want to pass on our best.

I believe that the talents of Static and Ben-El will speak to music lovers around the world.

Everything starts with fishermen's tales. Everywhere you go the fishermen talk.

I have a bit of a love affair with fairy tales and some of the ideas of Irish mythology, like Oscar Wilde and W.B. Yeats, who captured a lot of that very beautifully.

In kindergarten that used to be my job, to tell them fairytales. I liked Hans Christian Andersen, and the Grimm fairy tales, all the classic fairy tales.

Certain of Poe's tales possess an almost absolute perfection of artistic form which makes them veritable beacon-lights in the province of the short story.

I was raised on the brothers Grimm, but my favorite fairy tales in the world are Oscar Wilde's - 'The Nightingale and the Rose,' 'The Selfish Giant.' The latter is probably my all-time favorite.

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

I think writers from both East and West have long been fascinated by the ancient tales and the opportunity to reinterpret them.

I'll be left writing picture books and fairy tales.

They were written on cheap blue notebooks bought by poor women. I'm interested in folk tales in the way that medicine and magic in women's stories are all kind of combined.

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.

In fairy tales, the children are saved by caring adults. We need more caring adults in the lives of our children.

Fairy tales and folk tales have always played a role in my writing in one way or another.

What works about fairy tales is that they endure, and the great thing about fairy tales is that you can explore big, epic things that you can't really explore in other situations.

Why do fairy tales exist, and why do movies exist? Why do novels exist? There has to be a reason for it; otherwise, none of these things would be there.

I think that Shakespeare himself raided fairy tales and chronicle writers, and he always looked to people who worked in the mythic genres, whether it was folk tales or popular novels.

Emily Dickinson has haunted my life - her poems, her persona, all the tales about her solitude. Ever since I discovered her in the seventh grade, I've had a crush on that spinster in white, who had such a heroic and startling inner landscape of her own.

I loved fairy tales as a kid, so that's where my mind gravitates.

Writing is writing to me. I'm incapable of saying no to any writing job, so I've done everything - historical fiction, myths, fairy tales, anything that anybody expresses any interest in me writing, I'll write. It's the same reason I used to read as a child: I like going somewhere else and being someone else.

Tales of Tacobella' showed that I can rap.

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

We were always big fans of Hellhammer, but when Celtic Frost came on with 'Morbid Tales,' to me it was a game-changer in the metal world.

Fairy tales and folk tales are part of the DNA of all stories and great fun to write.