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What I find interesting about folklore is the dialogue it gives us with storytellers from centuries past.

I like narrative storytelling as being part of a tradition, a folk tradition.

Fairy tales and folk tales have always played a role in my writing in one way or another.

Folktales are real.

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.

The truth is, my folk-lore friends and my Saturday Reviewer differ with me on the important problem of the origin of folk-tales. They think that a tale probably originated where it was found.

In my introductory course, Anthropology 160, the Forms of Folklore, I try to show the students what the major and minor genres of folklore are, and how they can be analyzed.

I love studying folklore and legends. The stories that people passed down for a thousand years without any sort of marketing support are obviously saying something appealing about the basic human condition.

I love folk; that's a big part of my background.

Fairy tales and folk tales are part of the DNA of all stories and great fun to write.