Fairy tales are dangerous when wolves are on the prowl

I am a wild one tame me now. Running with wolves and I'm on the prowl.

— Sia

There were the fairy tales my father told to me at bedtime. All the standards. I thought my father invented wolves.

— John Dufresne

Once I thought fairy tales were lies or worse promises spoken yet meant to be broken intent is all. Why do grown ups feel…

— Justice Fitzgerald

Fairy tales are more than true: not because they tell us that dragons exist, but because they tell us that dragons can be beaten.

— Anonymous

“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

Here about the beach I wandered, nourishing a youth sublime With the fairy tales of science, and the long result of Time.

— Alfred Lord Tennyson

I grew up watching monster movies and horror movies, which I felt were like fairy tales and I think this always spoke to me.…

— Tim Burton

“What the Boy chiefly dabbled in was natural history and fairy tales, and he just took them as they came, in a sandwichy sort…

— Kenneth Grahame

Letters crossing in the post, unfamiliar tunes heard three times in one day, the way that blows of fate descend upon the same bowed…

— Fay Weldon

Look at Jane Austen. Her characters derive in a reasonably straight line from fairy tales.

— Andrew Davies

Here is the world of imagination, hopes, and dreams. In this timeless land of enchantment, the age of chivalry, magic and make-believe are reborn…

— Walt Disney

“Yes sir, the fish was left in place of the crystal ball. It's been bagged and tagged for analysis.” Great. Now we have another…

— A.F. Stewart

“If this were a fairy tale, this would be the part where the fishboy appears and Diana shoots him through the heart. Because he…

— Hannah Moskowitz

I have always been fascinated by the supernatural elements in stories, whether fairy tales, myths, film or literature.

— Trudi Canavan

“From that time on they both looked forward to sleeping together. I might even say that the goal of their lovemaking was not so…

— Milan Kundera