I'm used to writing fairy tales that can be somewhat dark, and the truth is that in fairy tales, romances are always… — Theodora Goss Copy Share Image
“The fairy tale belongs to the poor...I know of no fairy tale which upholds the tyrant, or takes the part of the… — Erik Christian Haugaard Copy Share Image
I went to the library as soon as I could walk. So the training came from reading all kinds of people, from… — Nat Hentoff Copy Share Image
“Besides he knew that there is nothing like a long walk for getting rid of sadness. It flows out of your feet… — Gordon Jarvie editor Copy Share Image
I believe that our lives, just like fairy tales - the stories that have been written by us humans, through our own… — Lucinda Riley Copy Share Image
“Fairy tales teach us not just about love, but to fight for the things that you want. They show us that no… — Kaylynne Spauls Copy Share Image
“Storytelling is an ancient art that rarely receives the respect it deserves. Is it even possible to find someone these days with… — Erika Eichenseer Copy Share Image
“I wasn’t afraid of your average dark alley. I had standard Agency-issue spells in my coat and a nine millimeter in my… — J.C. Nelson Copy Share Image
“The eternal child. - We think that play and fairy tales belong to childhood: how shortsighted that is! As though we would… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
“Rachel thinks, What long fingers Mama has, like wands in fairy tales. All the better to conduct with my dear! Ekaterina Wolff… — Emma Richler Copy Share Image
“We believe in the wrong things. That's what frustrates me the most. Not the lack of belief, but the belief in the… — Rachel Cohn Copy Share Image
“My head says forget it, my heart says I’ll regret it, and what my stomach tells me, I should not ignore. Oh… — Chris DiSano Davenport Copy Share Image
“Simon?” “Yeah?” “Can you tell me a story?” He blinked. “What kind of story?” “Something where the good guys win and the… — Cassandra Clare Copy Share Image
The fairy tale, which to this day is the first tutor of children because it was once the first tutor of mankind,… — Walter Benjamin Copy Share Image
“Silence is another element we find in classic fairy tales — girls muted by magic or sworn to silence in order to… — Terri Windling Copy Share Image
“Sweetheart, happily ever after does exist, it’s just not what you think,” he said. “Happily ever after isn’t a solution to life’s… — Chris Colfer Copy Share Image
Fairy tales have rules. You are a princess or you aren’t. You are pure at heart or you aren’t. If you are… — Richard Siken Copy Share Image
I wanted the chance to look again at very famous stories and see what made them work well, whether there were any… — Philip Pullman Copy Share Image
Pretty smiles deceiving laughs and people who dream with their eyes open lonely children unanswered cries and souls who have given up… — Tupac Copy Share Image
She tastes like nectar and salt. Nectar and salt and apples. Pollen and stars and hinges. She tastes like fairy tales. Swan… — Laini Taylor Copy Share Image
Fairy tales had been her first experience of the magical universe, and more than once she had wondered why people ended up… — Paulo Coelho Copy Share Image
“All stories in which children have adventures and successes which are possible, in the sense that they do not break the laws… — Joe Rigney Copy Share Image
“She adored fairy tales, yet derived great reward rewriting them to the melody of her own warrior soul. Her fairytales weren’t made… — Melody Lee Copy Share Image
We believed the fairy tales we told our children and we loved them beyond reason even when we were green and bungling… — Marlena De Blasi Copy Share Image
Storybook endings, fairy tales coming true. Deep down inside we want to believe they still do. In our secretest heart, it's our… — Carrie Underwood Copy Share Image
“Fairy tales are just true stories that humans have chosen not to believe in any more. Besides, this is Myths and Legends… — Stacie Simpson Copy Share Image
“Salinger was not cutesy. His work was not nostalgic. These were not fairy tales about child geniuses traipsing the streets of Old… — Joanna Rakoff Copy Share Image
My relationship with Wilhelm and Jacob Grimm reaches far back into my childhood. I grew up with Grimm's fairy tales. I even… — Gunter Grass Copy Share Image
In college, I became interested in folk tales and fairy tales. Gradually I became more and more interested in the underlying meaning… — Brian Froud Copy Share Image
In this strange world called Earth, I have run into dead things that seemed to be alive; and living ones that seemed… — Jean-Paul Malfatti Copy Share Image
“All the queens of my acquaintance have children, some three, some seven, and some as many as twelve; and my queen has… — Hamilton Wright Mabie Copy Share Image
“I must warn you dear reader, that in this story both wonderful and terrible events transpire. It is also the sort of… — John Mark Green Copy Share Image
“You mean to tell me that you have made a human friend? It could be dangerous and I must urge it to… — Chris DiSano Davenport Copy Share Image
Do people choose the art that inspires them — do they think it over, decide they might prefer the fabulous to the… — Alice Hoffman Copy Share Image
Kami'd always retold her fairy tales to make the fair maidens braver and more self-sufficient, but she had never had any real… — Sarah Rees Brennan Copy Share Image
“Be aware! Bad things can happen and the bigger they are, the greater the test. You can learn from them or pity… — Chris DiSano Davenport Copy Share Image
My parents read me fairy tales every night and I used to believe I was a fairytale princess, like every young girl.… — Lily Collins Copy Share Image
Folk tales, fairy tales, religion, the occult - these are the things I'm most passionate about, even more than cinema. And I'm… — Robert Eggers Copy Share Image
“Children's and Household Tales (German: Kinder- und Hausmärchen) is a collection of German origin fairy tales first published in 1812 by Jacob… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
I know she's shy. I know she doesn't have very many friends. I just want her to be strong, you know? To… — Enchanted Copy Share Image
