Joseph Jacobs Quotes

There might be a proper age to know how to tell a story, but there's no proper age to start telling them.

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.

I was a great reader of fairy tales. I tried to read the entire fairy tale section of the library.

When I was little, I made up my own fairy tales, and the ghostly echo of 'Once upon a time' shapes all the fiction I've ever written.

I have been writing fairy tales for as long as I can remember. Not much has changed in terms of my natural attraction to the narrative techniques of fairy tales. My appreciation of them in the traditional stories has deepened, especially of flat and unadorned language, intuitive logic, abstraction, and everyday magic.

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

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

I'm an interpreter of stories. When I perform it's like sitting down at my piano and telling fairy stories.

Reading fairytales to children expands their imaginations.

Just so you know, when they say "once upon a time"....they're lying. It's not once upon a time. Its not even twice upon a time. It's hundreds of times, over and over, every time someone opens up the pages of this dusty old book.

You're never going to kill storytelling, because it's built into the human plan. We come with it.

I'm just a story teller.

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.

I love fantasy. I grew up reading fantasy.

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.

I don't know that movies are important. But I know that stories are important. Movies may disappear. They've only been around, for God's sake, for the last hundred years... I think that it's the need to tell stories, and that people need to be told stories. It's the old sitting around the fire, you know.

Everyone seems quite good at stories and making them up.

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

Throughout history, story telling was at the very beginning of life.

All of my work is influenced by fairy tales, and I hope my work shows Hans Christian Anderson's influence.

There is something in human beings that loves stories.

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

I think storytelling is all about children. We human beings love to hear stories being told - and it first happens when you're a kid.

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.

Humankind has been telling stories forever and will be telling stories forever.