Jack Zipes Quotes

#1. Now was not the time to quit and mourn. Now was the time for prayer and action.

Todd Burpo

#2. In 1995, I founded a storytelling program for children called Neighborhood Bridges in collaboration with the Children's Theatre Company of Minneapolis, which is 15 elementary schools in the Twin Cities.

Jack Zipes

#3. In olden times, when wishing still helped...."
- The Frog King | The Fairy Tales of the Brothers Grimm

Jack D. Zipes

#4. Every day affords individual people moments when they can shake off everything that is false and can view things from their perspective.

Jack D. Zipes

#5. We are wild and have no laws.

Kat Nove

#6. Though the Grimms kept about 100 of the tales from the first edition, they changed them a good deal.

Jack Zipes

#7. 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.

Jack Zipes

#8. Every human being is a bundle of institutionalized roles. He has to play many parts, and unless he knows his lines as well as his role he is no use in the play.

Elaine Andersen

#9. The three wolves didn't know that the sheep herd had three dogs in it. Big ones.

Tom Clancy

#10. Alas for those girls who've refused the truth: The sweetest tongue has the sharpest tooth.

Jack D. Zipes

#11. I believe my voice is pretty much the same. I've written 75 books, so I'm better at it now than I was earlier in my career.

Caroline B. Cooney

#12. Multa ferunt anni venientes commoda secum, Multa recedentes adimiunt. (The years, as they come, bring many agreeable things with them; as they go, they take many away.)

Horace

#13. It was only as part of the civilizing process that storytelling developed within the aristocratic and bourgeois homes, in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries through governesses and nannies, and later in the eighteenth and the nineteenth centuries through mothers, who told bedtime stories.

Jack D. Zipes

#14. It was only after the Grimms published two editions primarily for adults that they changed their attitude and decided to produce a shorter edition for middle-class families. This led to Wilhelm's editing and censoring many of the tales.

Jack Zipes

#15. If there is one 'constant' in the structure and theme of the wonder tale, it is transformation.

Jack D. Zipes

#16. Almost every single commercial on television for shampoo, sports shoes, drinks, food, clothes, perfume, cars, etc., is a short fairy tale, for they are given magical qualities.

Jack Zipes

#17. Chris Columbus, who directed the first two Harry Potter films and was the family comedy king through the '80s and '90s - 'Mrs. Doubtfire,' 'Home Alone,' etc. - has acquired rights to 'The Cypress House' and is working on the script himself, with intent to direct.

Michael Koryta

#18. I have a daughter, Hanna, and I never read fairy tales to her. But I did tell her bedtime tales and made up many tales involving 'Gory the Goblin' and other creatures that I borrowed from the Grimms' tales and other tales I knew.

Jack Zipes

#19. The role of the storyteller is to awaken the storyteller in others.

Jack Zipes

#20. Renovate your life, the old myths say, and the universe is yours.

Wally Lamb

#21. Everything beautiful is golden and strewn with pearls. Even golden people live here. But misfortune is a dark power, a monstrous, cannibalistic giant, who is, however, vanquished, because a good woman, who happily knows how to avert disaster, stands ready to help.

Jack D. Zipes

#22. I've tried to show in my most recent book, the 'Irresistible Fairytale', that in order to talk about any genre, particularly what we call simple genre - a myth, a legend, an anecdote, a tall tale, and so on - we really have to understand something about the origin of stories all together.

Jack Zipes

#23. It was not once upon a time, but a certain time in history, before anyone knew what was happening, that Walt Disney cast a spell on the fairy tale, and he has held it captive ever since.

Jack Zipes

#24. The literary fairy tale became an acceptable social symbolic form through which conventionalized motifs, characters, and plots were selected, composed, arranged, and rearranged to comment on the civilizing process and to keep alive the possibility of miraculous change and a sense of wonderment.

Jack D. Zipes

#25. Many bowdlerized versions indicated a Victorian-minded censorship, which feared that Little Red Riding Hood might some day break out, become a Bohemian, and live in the woods with the wolf.

Jack D. Zipes

#26. You want company, sugar?"
Her eyes brimmed with tears, and she could only nod.
"Good answer. You saved yourself a fight.

Cherise Sinclair

#27. Fairy tales begin with conflict because we all begin our lives with conflict. We are all misfit for the world, and somehow we must fit in, fit in with other people, and thus we must invent or find the means through communication to satisfy as well as resolve conflicting desires and instincts.

Jack D. Zipes

#28. The Grimm collections were never intended for children. Not because kids were excluded, but because the division we make today of children's literature didn't exist then. The idea of protecting children from tales with violence didn't occur until the earlier part of the 19th century.

Jack Zipes

#29. I hate jealousy. At least it's its own punishment; it makes me feel like hell.

Patricia Gaffney

#30. Fairy tales are with us day in and day out, not just in commercials, but references in the theater, movies, museums, schools, etc.

Jack Zipes

#31. What the world has to eradicate is fear and ignorance.

Jan Masaryk

#32. What the Greeks and Romans considered myths, we consider fairy tales. We can see how very clearly the myths, which emanated from all cultures, had a huge influence on the development of the modern fairy tale.

Jack Zipes

#33. Fairy tales since the beginning of recorded time, and perhaps earlier, have been a means to conquer the terrors of mankind through metaphor.

Jack D. Zipes

#34. Virginity, albeit some highly prize it, Compared with marriage, had you tried them both, Differs as much as wine and water doth.

Christopher Marlowe

#35. 'Once Upon a Time', 'Mirror Mirror' - those shows and films focus on women and their conflict with one another. What the heck is going on in contemporary fairy tales? Women are not dominating the world; they are not evil.

Jack Zipes

#36. The fairy tale emanates from specific struggles to humanize bestial and barbaric forces, which have terrorized our minds and communities in concrete ways, threatening to destroy free will and human compassion. The fairy tale sets out to conquer this concrete terror through metaphors.

Jack D. Zipes