I was always fascinated by fairy stories, fantasy, you…

I always loved ghost stories and haunted house stories, whether they were done in a fantasy way or done in a realistic way.

— Gillian Flynn

When we tell stories about things that are important - love, fear, beauty - we change the way people think about the world. Writers…

— Theodora Goss

Most of my short stories are fantasy.

— Ray Bradbury

I'm mostly a novelist these days, but I have written short stories in Fantasy, Science Fiction and horror.

— Sarah Zettel

“Stories of Fantasy are nothing more than the retelling of our own triumphs and sad, sad tragedies ... Tod Langley I have that painted…

— Tod langley

A myth is, of course, not a fairy story. It is the presentation of facts belonging to one category in the idioms appropriate to…

— Gilbert Ryle

“Now fairy stories are at risk too, like the forests. Padraic Column has suggested that artificial lighting dealt them a mortal wound: when people…

— Sara Maitland

“In England in the 19th century, advances in printing methods, combined with the rise of a prosperous middle class, engendered a booming new industry…

— Terri Windling

“That girl has been listening,” she said. The culprit snatched up her brush, and scrambled to her feet. She caught at the coal box…

— Frances Hodgson Burnett

Atheism is a fairy story for people afraid of the Light

— John Lennox

When my sister and I were very young, my father used to tell us fairy stories that he'd made up. My mother was always…

— Nicolas Roeg

As a child, my mother told me lots of fairy stories, many her own invention. She, too, tended to reverse the norm.

— Tanith Lee

“I've been very influenced by folklore, fairy tales, and folk ballads, so I love all the classic works based on these things -- like…

— Terri Windling

“The consolation of fairy-stories, the joy of the happy ending; or more correctly of the good catastrophe, the sudden joyous "turn" (for there is…

— J.R.R. Tolkien

In his anti-Darwinian book... (and eponymously named The Neck of the Giraffe ), Francis Hitching tells the story... "The need to survive by reaching…

— Stephen Jay Gould