There are fairy stories to be written for adults. Stories that are still in a green state. — Andre Breton Copy Share Image
Artless fairy stories enchant us in our first years and retain their hold on us until our last. — Howard Jacobson Copy Share Image
As a child, my mother told me lots of fairy stories, many her own invention. She, too, tended to reverse the norm. — Tanith Lee Copy Share Image
I think people should read fairy tales, because were hungry for a mythology that will speak to our fears. — Sandra Cisneros Copy Share Image
It's almost a sort of fairy story tale, just what a novelist would write about a discovery. — Charles Hard Townes Copy Share Image
I was the original Cinderella girl, looking for the happy ending in the fairy story. But my fantasy prince never came. — Evelyn Keyes Copy Share Image
I was born an only child in Vienna, Austria. My father found hours to sit by me by the library fire and… — Hedy Lamarr Copy Share Image
I'm an interpreter of stories. When I perform it's like sitting down at my piano and telling fairy stories. — Nat King Cole Copy Share Image
“For many scientists, as Lyotard concedes, scientific knowledge is the only form of knowledge there is, but if so, how then do… — Peter Watson Copy Share Image
Only thin, weak thinkers despise fairy stories. Each one has a true, strange fact hidden in it, you know, which you can… — Diana Wynne Jones Copy Share Image
“It’s not that I don’t write fairy stories because I don’t believe in fairies. I don’t write fairy stories because fairies don’t… — Daniel Kemp Copy Share Image
One of the things that turns me on the most is imagining new worlds, just as I did as a kid, when… — Nick Willing Copy Share Image
Things we are accustomed to regard as myth or fairy story are very much present in people's lives. Nice people behave like… — Diana Wynne Jones Copy Share Image
“Away with them, away; we should not believe fairy stories if we wish to be good. Think of them as persons from… — Stevie Smith Copy Share Image
Adolescents believe that the world belongs to the living, or more particularly to living people their age, so they feel within their… — Robert Bly Copy Share Image
I was always fascinated by fairy stories, fantasy, you know, demons, necromancers, gods and goddesses, everything that is out of our kin… — Christopher Lee Copy Share Image
To become a big movie star like Joan Crawford you need to wear blinders and pay single-minded attention to your career. Nobody… — Evelyn Keyes Copy Share Image
I loved [fairy stories] so, and my mother weighed down by grief had given up telling me them. At Nohant I found… — George Sand Copy Share Image
In his anti-Darwinian book... (and eponymously named The Neck of the Giraffe ), Francis Hitching tells the story... "The need to survive… — Stephen Jay Gould Copy Share Image
When my sister and I were very young, my father used to tell us fairy stories that he'd made up. My mother… — Nicolas Roeg Copy Share Image
Books have their destinies like men. And their fates, as made by generations of readers, are very different from the destinies foreseen… — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
the association of children and fairy-stories is an accident of our domestic history. Fairy-stories have in the modern lettered world been relegated… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“Now fairy stories are at risk too, like the forests. Padraic Column has suggested that artificial lighting dealt them a mortal wound:… — Sara Maitland Copy Share Image
I have lived with the prospect of an early death for the last 49 years. I'm not afraid of death, but I'm… — Stephen Hawking Copy Share Image
“The streets are shining, and there are fields and fields of lilies, and everybody gathers them. Sara tells me when she puts… — Frances Hodgson Burnett Copy Share Image
“I've been very influenced by folklore, fairy tales, and folk ballads, so I love all the classic works based on these things… — Terri Windling Copy Share Image
“The consolation of fairy-stories, the joy of the happy ending; or more correctly of the good catastrophe, the sudden joyous "turn" (for… — J.R.R. Tolkien Copy Share Image
“In England in the 19th century, advances in printing methods, combined with the rise of a prosperous middle class, engendered a booming… — Terri Windling Copy Share Image
“Studies [on the origin of fairy-stories] are, however, scientific (at least in intent); they are the pursuit of folklorists or anthropologists: that… — J.R.R. Tolkien Copy Share Image
“It is usually assumed that children are the natural or the specially appropriate audience for fairy-stories. In describing a fairy-story which they… — J.R.R. Tolkien Copy Share Image
“That girl has been listening,” she said. The culprit snatched up her brush, and scrambled to her feet. She caught at the… — Frances Hodgson Burnett Copy Share Image
“Among those who still have enough wisdom not to think fairy-stories are pernicious, the common opinion seems to be that there is… — J.R.R. Tolkien Copy Share Image
A myth is, of course, not a fairy story. It is the presentation of facts belonging to one category in the idioms… — Gilbert Ryle Copy Share Image
My father told me fairy stories and he read to us. And my grandmother was Irish. She told us about 'the little… — Agnes Moorehead Copy Share Image
The objection to fairy stories is that they tell children there are dragons. But children have always known there are dragons. Fairy… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
As this world becomes increasingly ugly, callous and materialistic it needs to be reminded that the old fairy stories are rooted in… — Elizabeth Goudge Copy Share Image
“In another chapter I have told you how in the year 800 a German chieftain had become a Roman Emperor. Now in… — Hendrik Van Loon Copy Share Image
![“I loved [fairy stories] so, and my mother weighed down by grief had given up telling me them. At Nohant I found Mmes. d'Ardony's and Perrault's tales in old editions which became my chief joy for five or six years ... I've never read them since, but I could tell each tale straight through, and I…” quote by George Sand](https://sms4smile.com/q/img-quotes/d4a/george-sand-1753_chiefs_i-loved-fairy-stories-so-and-my-mother-w_1388127.jpg)
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