Carl Jung Quotes

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.

Children are natural mythologists: they beg to be told tales, and love not only to invent but to enact falsehoods.

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.

There are many little ways to enlarge your child's world. Love of books is the best of all.

Myths are part of our DNA. We're a civilisation with a continuous culture. The effort to modernize it keeps it alive. Readers connect with it.

Thus we hope to teach mythology not as a study, but as a relaxation from study; to give our work the charm of a story-book, yet by means of it to impart a knowledge of an important branch of education.

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

I think the more you understand myths, the more you understand the roots of our culture and the more things will resonate. Do you have to know them? No, but certainly it is nice to recognise how deeply these things are embedded in our literature, our art.

I loved all the world's mythologies.

I'm fascinated by almost any mythology that I can get my hands on.

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

I'm very at home working with mythology.

Every great story seems to begin with a snake.

My mom has a tape from when I was, like, 2 years old, talking with my grandma, telling her a story that's really elaborate about werewolves and wolves.

If historians don't tell stories at the scales of creation myths, someone else will.

We have this thing as human beings: we have a profound need for story. That's what kids need.

I love reading all the mythological stories. I was brought up on them.

My mission is to put a book in every child's hand.

It is my belief that we as human beings have a need to tell stories - I think it's evolutionary. So you can think of the short story as a literary form, or you can instead think of stories.

Over the centuries we have transformed the ancient myths and folk tales and made them into the fabric of our lives. Consciously and unconsciously we weave the narratives of myth and folk tale into our daily existence.

I grew up falling in love with kind of story, amazing, wonder tale of the East, which if you're a child growing up in India is all around you.And I think one of the gifts it gave me as a writer was this early knowledge that stories are not true.

I love mythic stuff. I love playing with gods, I love playing with myths. A lot of it has to do with that they're the basic places stories come from. They're the clay that you make the bricks out of.

My children give me a great sense of wonder. Just to see them develop into these extraordinary human beings. And a favorite book as a child? Growing up, it was 'The Lion, The Witch and The Wardrobe' - I would read the whole C.S. Lewis series out loud to my kids. I was once reading to Zelda, and she said 'don't do any voices. Just read it as yourself.' So I did, I just read it straight, and she said 'that's better.'

We need to see each child as a gift to be welcomed, cherished, and protected.

Fairy tales have always got to have something a bit scary for children - as long as you make them laugh as well.