Lauren Bacall Quotes

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

When I wrote 'The Good Fairies of New York,' I wasn't really imagining that there were fairies. Not in the way that I'm really imagining there are werewolves.

Everybody loves monsters.

The words 'fairy tales' must accordingly be taken to include tales in which occurs something 'fairy,' something extraordinary - fairies, giants, dwarfs, speaking animals.

I don't know what to think about magic and fairy tales.

I'd go into the woods to look for the witches, the mythical beings.

Legends are best left as legends and attempts to make them real are rarely successful

Myths are stories about people who become too big for their lives temporarily, so that they crash into other lives or brush against gods. In crisis their souls are visible.

Strangely enough, there's this mythology sprouting out that I cannot stop.

If swans weren't real myths'd make up.

Well, I'm pretty anti legends - I just don't think they're useful. So that certainly wouldn't be my intention. But will it contribute to that? Sure. Any medicine can be mis-used. But I think that there is a great courage, innocence and magic to him that more than a legend is about connection.

It's a good country for myths. Things seem to take root here.

Do we walk in legends or on the green earth in the daylight?' A man may do both,' said Aragorn. 'For not we but those who come after will make the legends of our time. The green earth, say you? That is a mighty matter of legend, though you tread it under the light of day!

At the heart of every legend there is a grain of truth.

What do men know? Because they have seen no unicorns for a while does not mean we have all vanished.

Vampires are make-believe, like elves, gremlins, and eskimos.

Myths are made for the imagination to breath life into them.

And, before science had caught up with the legend, the legend had swallowed science and everything.

After all, I believe that legends and myths are largely made of 'truth'.

All legends have a base in fact.

There's always someone who secretly believes in myths and legends; or at least parts of them. Those are the people who will look beyond the obvious and see things in this world that are truly wonderful... But they won't say anything, even if they do. Because the rest of us who view the world as logical and scientific wouldn't see the truth if it was posted up on a billboard.

The bearers of fables are very welcome.

Much evil must befall a country before it wholly forgets the Elves, if once they dwelt there.

History has its truth; and so has legend hers.

The things I encounter that I call elves or gnomes, it's just a gloss. I mean, they're small, and they have the archetype. They're more like leprechauns, and this maybe raises a racial issue.