Ally Carter Quotes

To begin with, I want to tell a good story, a story that people will listen to and that they'll think this is true, even if it is a story that might be defined as - as myth or legend or even fanciful.

People love a good story, even if it's a story that has very little truth to it.

The most powerful words in English are, 'Tell me a story.'

STORY, n. A narrative, commonly untrue.

Myth is, after all, the neverending story.

When you look into the eyes of an animal you've rescued, you can't help but fall in love.

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.

Legend: A lie that has attained the dignity of age.

I don't believe in storks. I know they don't deliver babies; they deliver pickles.

I do love mythology.

Jack’s life had more to do with myth, legend, saga, and story than with political theory or political science.

In our family, we've always been owned by border collies, or dogs of one kind or another, and have rescued many dogs. We've lived in the woods and sometimes have had as many as 70 sled dogs. Or had six or seven dogs living in the house. Dogs have saved my life on more than one occasion - and I mean that literally.

I started very young as a hero.

No Atlantis is too underwater or fictional.

I don't think there's anything wrong with pity. Like if you saw a dog having just been hit by a car, you would pity that dog. But then what do you do? Do you leave it there to get run over by more cars, or do you step into traffic and hold up your hand? "Stop! An animal has been hit!" and carry the thing to safety?

Cinderella!" Dov cried. "Let down your hair!

As long as there's one person to believe it, there's no story that can't be true.

With a tale, forsooth, he cometh unto you; with a tale which holdeth children from play, and old men from the chimney corner.

A story? No. No stories, never again.

He says every story has at least some truth in it, even if most are made up.

So, then. You want a story and I will tell you one.

But I put my life on the line to save animals.

Saved by the grandma" Ranger

A tale in everything.

The job of a storyteller is to tell stories, and I have concentrated on that obligation.