Quotes by Kate Forsyth - Page 1

May my heart be kind, my mind fierce, and my spirit brave.
Kate Forsyth / Author
Brave
Healing
Heart
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Stories are like that. Like cities, they are built on the stones and bones of the past.
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Bones
Cities
Stones
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Fairy tales are stories of triumph and transformation and true love, all things I fervently believe in.
Kate Forsyth / Author
True Love
All Things
Fairy
Stories
Tales
Transformation
Love True Love Believe
Fairy Tales
Fervently
Love Believe True
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Stories are the common ground that allow people to connect, despite all our defences and all our differences.
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Common Ground
Despite
Differences
Connect
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She felt as if she had strayed into a fairy tale, as full of peril as of wonder, a place where anything could happen.
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Fairy Tale
Peril
Wonder
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The ogres and witches and giants of fairytales stand in as metaphors for those obstacles that we all face in our own lives.
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Giants
Obstacles
Witches
Metaphors
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Fairytales were never really meant for children; they were meant as cautionary tales for teenagers on the verge of growing up.
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Tales
Verge
Cautionary
Teenagers
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Once upon a time, I was a little girl sick in the hospital, and my mother gave me a copy of 'Grimm's Fairy Tales' to comfort me.
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Comfort
Fairy
Sick
Tales
Time Me Comfort
Copy
Fairy Tales
Hospital
Little Girl
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Every word we speak calls on 37 muscles and thousands of nerves. It's not surprising that sometimes these nerves and muscles fail us.
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Muscles
Nerves
Surprising
Calls
Thousands
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We all want to win against all odds. We all want to be loved. We all wish it was possible to change our world and to make our world a better place.
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Better Place
Odds
Our World
Change World Better
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You cannot write a book unless it is totally inhabiting your imagination and you are totally engrossed with it. Which is a kind word for obsession.
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Imagination
Obsession
Totally
Inhabiting
Unless
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Storytelling is as old as speech. It existed before humans first began to carve shapes in stones and press their hands upon the rocky walls of caves.
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Caves
Humans
Shapes
Speech
Stones
Carve
Existed
Rocky
Walls
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I have struggled all my life with my stuttering. Not to mention all my other speech impediments. I think I have every language disorder known to speech pathologists.
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Disorder
Speech
Stuttering
All My Life
Impediment
Struggled
Mention
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I wrote my novel 'Bitter Greens' as the creative component of a Doctorate of Creative Arts and am now looking at the history of the Rapunzel tale as my theoretical component.
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Bitter
Theoretical
Component
Doctorate
Greens
Tale
The History Of
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One reason why so little is known about the German resistance is because it was never a united movement in the way that it was in France or Poland. It was simply too dangerous.
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France
Poland
Resistance
German
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Many people think fairy tales and retellings of fairy tales are only for children, but I'm not the only writer to take an old tale and retell it for a sophisticated adult audience.
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Audience
Fairy
Sophisticated
Adult
Writer
Fairy Tales
Tale
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Since the moment I could hold a pencil, I have spent nearly all day every day writing. And there is not an age group that I have not written for. You can read me from birth 'til death.
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Birth
Age Group
All Day
Nearly
Pencil
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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.
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New Generation
Shapes
Structures
Thousands
Thousands Of Years
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I was attacked by a dog when I was a toddler, and my injuries were so bad, I spent quite a bit of my childhood in and out of hospital. Books were absolutely my salvation during those years.
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Salvation
Toddler
Attacked
Hospital
Injuries
Quite A Bit
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Sanitising stories, leaching out all of the sense of danger and the darkness out of the stories, actually reduces them and stops them from doing what they're supposed to do, which is teach us how to manage our lives.
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Danger
Manage
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Words. I had always loved them. I collected them, like I had collected pretty stones as a child. I liked to roll words over my tongue like a lump of molten honeycomb, savouring the sweetness, the crackle, the crunch.
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Children
Stones
Tongue
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I think fantasy is best described as a kind of fiction that evokes wonder, mystery or magic, a sense of possibility beyond the ordinary world in which we live, and yet which reflects and comments upon that known world.
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Magic
Ordinary World
Thinking
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It has always seemed a cruel joke to me that the very word 'stutter' is difficult for many stutterers to pronounce. It is onomatopoeic, an imitation of the halting, repetitive sound made by people with this speech dysfunction.
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Dysfunction
Imitation
Repetitive
Always Me People
Cruel
Me Difficult People
Pronounce
Stutter
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The storyline of a fantasy novel is filled with such a sense of enchantment, beauty and strangeness; it allows the writer to explore the big ontological questions of life that would sound like a sermon in a social realist novel.
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Enchantment
Fantasy
Filled
Novel
Realist
Sound
Storyline
Writer
Explore
Sermon
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War is an unpredictable beast. Once unleashed, it runs like a rabid dog, ravening friend or foe alike. It can drag on for years, a slow attrition of nerve and fortitude, or be over in one brilliant flash, an extravagant conflagration of flame and blood and waste.
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Running
War
Dog
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One of the biggest mistakes people make is to think that what you need to write a novel is imagination, creativity and a facility with words. Yes, you need all those things, but a novel is a highly complex organism that needs to be dealt with in quite a logical manner.
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Imagination
Facility
Logical
Novel
Mistakes
Biggest
Complex
Dealt
Highly
Manner
Organism
Yes
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Fairytales work on two levels. On a conscious level, they are stories of true love and triumph and overcoming difficult odds and so are pleasurable to read. But they work on a deeper and symbolic level in that they play out our universal psychological dramas and hidden desires and fears.
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True Love
Conscious
Deeper
Levels
Odds
Overcoming
Psychological
Symbolic
Triumph
Desires
Dramas
Fears
Hidden
Pleasurable
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As an adult, I have often been deep in serious conversation with someone I've highly respected and seen them roll an eye as my mouth has mangled yet another magnificently conceived, clumsily articulated sentence. In my mind, the words are mellifluous as honey. In my mouth, they are shards of glass.
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Honey
Articulated
Conceived
Glass
Mouth
Sentence
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When our ancestors crouched about the camp fire at night, they told each other tales of gods and heroes, monsters and marvels, to hold back the terrors of the night. Such tales comforted and entertained, diverted and educated those who listened, and helped shape their sense of the world and their place in it.
Kate Forsyth / Author
Monsters
Tales
Ancestors
Camp
Comforted
Diverted
Entertained
Listened
Terrors
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I love fairy tales because of their haunting beauty and magical strangeness. They are set in worlds where anything can happen. Frogs can be kings, a thicket of brambles can hide a castle where a royal court has lain asleep for a hundred years, a boy can outwit a giant, and a girl can break a curse with nothing but her courage and steadfastness.
Kate Forsyth / Author
Beauty
Courage
Girl
Break
Court
Curse
Fairy
Frogs
Haunting
Hundred
Royal
Steadfastness
Tales
Years
Because
Nothing
Anything
Boy
Asleep
Castle
Set
Fairy Tales
Giant
Happen
Her
Hide
Hundred Years
Magical
Outwit
Where
Worlds
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I had always been a great talker and teller of tales. 'You should put a lock on that tongue of yours. It's long enough and sharp enough to slit your own throat,' our guardian warned me, the night before I left home to go to the royal court at Versailles ... I just laughed. 'Don't you know a woman's tongue is her sword? You wouldn't want me to let my only weapon rust, would you?
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Home
Long
Night
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Once there was a gypsy queen who wore on her wrist a chain of six lucky charms - a golden crown, a silver horse, a butterfly caught in amber, a cat's eye shell, a bolt of lightning forged from the heart of a falling star, and the flower of the rue plant, herb of grace. The queen gave each of her six children one of the charms as their lucky talisman, but ever since the chain of charms was broken, the gypsies had been dogged with misfortune.
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Queens
Children
Horse
Stars
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There's a flame of magic inside every stone & every flower, every bird that sings & every frog that croaks. There's magic in the trees & the hills & the river & the rocks, in the sea & the stars & the wind, a deep, wild magic that's as old as the world itself. It's in you too, my darling girl, and in me, and in every living creature, be it ever so small. Even the dirt I'm sweeping up now is stardust. In fact, all of us are made from the stuff of stars.
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Girl
Flower
Stars
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