Juliet Marillier Quotes

I'm fascinated with the stories that we tell. Real histories become fantasies and fairy tales, morality tales and fables. There's something interesting and funny and perverse about the way fairytale sometimes passes for history, for truth.

Fairly tales are myths, and myths are only myths because there's a grain of truth in them.

A myth is far truer than a history, for a history only gives a story of the shadows, whereas a myth gives a story of the substances that cast the shadows.

I love stories, I love myths, I love fairytales, I love Kafka.

Only thin, weak thinkers despise fairy stories. Each one has a true, strange fact hidden in it, you know, which you can find if you look.

Fairytales were maps formed of blood and hair and bones; they were the knots of the sub-conscious unwound. Every word in every tale was real and as true as apples and stones. They all led to the story inside the story.

The genres of the fantastic and the grotesque are far more interesting to me than most mnemonic fiction.

Things need not have happened to be true. Tales and adventures are the shadow truths that will endure when mere facts are dust and ashes and forgotten.

I am attracted to myths.

I'm not writing fairy tales or object lessons.

I like that 'once upon a time' quality, where the telling of a tale has an elevated sense of story. There's a whimsical quality to it. Sometimes in fairy tales more things seem possible, even though often they're real world based.

The art of storytelling is reaching its end because the epic side of truth, wisdom, is dying out.

I think people should read fairy tales, because we're hungry for a mythology that will speak to our fears.

There have been a number of us working very, very hard to bring myth and fairy tales into public consciousness, through fantasy literature and other media. I hope we're succeeding in some small way.

I love fairy tales because I think that behind fairy tales, there is always a meaning.

Fairy tales, which teach a moral lesson, are about ourselves. Myth deals with forces greater than ourselves.

Myths are fun, as long as you don't confuse them with the truth.

The fairy tale, which to this day is the first tutor of children because it was once the first tutor of mankind, secretly lives on in the story. The first true storyteller is, and will continue to be, the teller of fairy tales. Whenever good counsel was at a premium, the fairy tale had it, and where the need was greatest, its aid was nearest. This need was created by myth. The fairy tale tells us of the earliest arrangements that mankind made to shake off the nightmare which myth had placed upon its chest.

All stories are about wolves. All worth repeating, that is. Anything else is sentimental drivel.

Sometimes fairy stories may say best what's to be said.

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

Myth and fairy-story must, as all art, reflect and contain in solution elements of moral and religious truth (or error), but not explicit, not in the known form of the primary 'real' world.

To tell the truth, fairytales have never gone out of style. They have been told and retold for thousands of years, finding new shapes and structures with each new generation of tellers.

No matter what you write, you actually can't help retelling a fairy tale somewhere along the way.

There are some truths to some of the stories, but a lot of it isn't - you just have got to let it go.