Many people think fairy tales and retellings of fairy tales are only for children, but I'm not the only writer to take… — Kate Forsyth Copy Share Image
I always wanted the fairy tale, but now I want someone who is a great partner. — Elisabeth Rohm Copy Share Image
I have never dreamed of being a princess. I have not longed for Prince Charming. I have and do long for something… — Roxane Gay Copy Share Image
“A bad fairy tale has some simple goddamn moral. A great fairy tale tells the truth.” — Victor LaValle Copy Share Image
“And you're right- I don't want nice. I want sparks and fire. I want a romance novel. A Jane Austen movie. A… — Shari L. Tapscott Copy Share Image
“Z ipes’s concerns overlap with those of feminists such as Marcia Lieberman, Karen Rowe, Sandra Gilbert, Susan Gubar, and, to a lesser… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
If somebody had told me when I was starting composition in Helsinki in the '70s that I would end up in L.A.… — Esa-Pekka Salonen Copy Share Image
I wrote this story for you, but when I began it I had not realized that girls grow quicker than books. As… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
It's [Jack the Giant Slayer] one of those fairy tales your mom and dad read to you when you're little. Never once… — Eleanor Tomlinson Copy Share Image
“Fairy tales are about lessons. Those who are virtuous and true are rewarded, while those who are wicked and greedy are punished.” — Meagan Spooner Copy Share Image
So maybe it wasn't the fairy tale. But those stories weren't real anyway. Mine were. — Sarah Dessen Copy Share Image
“In the days leading up to Valentine’s Day, in addition to the daily letter I also made sure to send her a… — Noah Galloway 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
I'm so excited to see 'Horns' because it's so many different genres in one film. It's a sci-fi, it's a love story,… — Juno Temple Copy Share Image
“It aspires to being a modernized fairy tale, in which the wonderment and joy are retained and the heartaches and nightmares are… — L. Frank Baum Copy Share Image
Recasting fairy tales has become a publishing sub-genre in itself, and has been done both well and to the point of entropy.… — Graham Joyce Copy Share Image
“A fairy tale...on the other hand, demands of the reader total surrender; so long as he is in its world, there must… — W.H. Auden Copy Share Image
And I thought, when I have kids, that's the sort of well told, silly, and fun fairy tale that I would want… — Mike Myers Copy Share Image
“Some people owe everything they have to the bank accounts of their parents. I owe the state. Put simply, the state educated… — Zadie Smith Copy Share Image
“Fairy tales with all the shine taken away from them were simply stories of desperation. Of hungry wolves devouring children and jealous… — Emily Lloyd-Jones Copy Share Image
“Our souls yearn for connection with all souls. There are people we think we prefer and others we don’t, but half the… — Alexandra Katehakis Copy Share Image
“The notion of a natural propensity for vice is essential to Sadeian psychology; vice is innate, as is virtue, if social conditions… — Angela Carter Copy Share Image
People tend to think of fairy tales as 'archetypal.' They are also extremely sensual, something which translates well over the ages. — Kate Bernheimer Copy Share Image
If happy ever after did exist I would still be holding you like this all those fairy tales are fool of shit… — Precious Anne Gamboa Copy Share Image