#tales

I did my acting performance in 'Roger Rabbit.' I think I did a voice-over also in 'Osmosis Jones' and I directed an episode of my show years ago, 'Tales from the Crypt' and that's my endeavors in the non-producer oriented ranks. ↗

— Joel Silver

#ago #also #did #directed #endeavors

...she has been bewitched by a wicked sorceress, and will not regain her beauty until she is my wife.' 'Does she say so? Well if you believe that you may drink cold water and think it bacon'. ↗

— Andrew Lang

#beauty #bewitched #fairy-tales #unbelief #beauty

We may have forgotten how to feel. Nobody is teaching us how to live happily ever after, as we've heard in fairy tales. ↗

— Yakov Smirnoff

#after #ever #ever after #fairy #fairy tales

When I was a kid, there were these great comic books called 'Tales From The Crypt' and 'The Vault of Horror.' They were gruesome. I discovered them in the barbershop and thought they were fabulous. ↗

— R. L. Stine

#called #comic #comic books #discovered #fabulous

In fairy tales the bad guy is very easy to spot. The bad guy is always wearing a black cape so you always know who he is. ↗

— Taylor Swift

#bad #bad guy #black #cape #easy

I loved fairy tales when I was a kid. Grimm. The grimmer the better. I loved gruesome gothic tales and, in that respect, I liked Bible stories, because to me they were very gothic. ↗

— Amy Tan

#better #bible #fairy #fairy tales #gothic

While Fledging is a different type of book, The Parable series serve as cautionary tales. I wrote the Parable books because of the direction of the country. You can call it save the world fiction, but it clearly doesn't save anything. ↗

— Octavia Butler

#because #book #books #call #cautionary

People don't like the true and simple; they like fairy tales and humbug. ↗

— Edmond de Goncourt

#fairy tales #humbug #like #people #simple

Well, Company of Wolves was about that literally, about fairy tales. ↗

— Neil Jordan

#company #fairy #fairy tales #literally #tales

Fiction gives us a reach into the lives of individuals that would otherwise be but a closed door. If we are gifted with a desire to tell tales, then we should tell them . . . if only to reach but a few. ↗

— James D. Maxon

#reaching-people #tales #writing-from-the-heart #writing-life #writing-philosophy