Ransom Riggs Quotes

Every legend, moreover, contains its residuum of truth, and the root function of language is to control the universe by describing it.

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.

Whether in cave paintings or the latest uses of the Internet, human beings have always told their histories and truths through parable and fable. We are inveterate storytellers.

I dislike Allegory - the conscious and intentional allegory - yet any attempt to explain the purport of myth or fairytale must use allegorical language.

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.

All the truth in the world is held in stories.

Storytelling reveals meaning without committing the error of defining it.

Fiction is a piece of truth that turns lies to meaning.

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.

It's in literature that true life can be found. It's under the mask of fiction that you can tell the truth.

The story of Little Blue Riding Hood is true. Only the color has been changed to prevent an investigation.

Some stories are true that never happened.

The metaphors exist for the stories.

A tale in everything.

A myth is a lie that conveys a truth.

They [Fairy Tales] are talking about real emotions, telling true stories, through the medium of metaphor. People used to understand metaphor better than I think we do now. But these stories are so potent, they refuse to die.

Fiction to me is a kind of parable. You have got to make up your mind it's not true. Some kind of truth emerges from it, but it's not fact.

The job of a storyteller is to speak the truth. But what we feel most deeply can’t be spoken in words alone. At this level, only images connect. And here, story becomes symbol; symbol is myth. And myth is truth.

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

My secrets must be poetic to be believable.

But myth is something else than an explanation of the world, of history, and of destiny.

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.

A tale is born from an image, and the image extends and creates a network of meanings that are always equivocal.

As a reader, coming to my reading as a writer immersed in fairytales, I can't help but notice in so many stories, plays, poems that I read, the sort of breadcrumbs of fairytale techniques, so I'm very excited when I notice that.

I tell stories. That's what I do. I've always told stories.