“Without your own inner beast tamed ye can never tame the wild ones around ye!” — Jennifer Silverwood Copy Share Image
Like a grindhouse version of Grimm's Fairy Tales, Wallwork's fiction is smart, innovative, and a hell of a lot of fun. — Carlton Mellick III 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
The truth is that Trout, like Vonnegut and Ray Bradbury and many others, writes parables. These are set in frames which have… — Philip Jose Farmer Copy Share Image
Fairy tales do not tell children the dragons exist. Children already know that dragons exist. Fairy tales tell children the dragons can… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Fairy tales are more than true: not because they tell us that dragons are real, but because they tell us that they… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
I do a lot of urban fantasy, which is modern-day cities, but you've got magic, you've got fairies running around, or cryptozoological… — Seanan McGuire Copy Share Image
And now, I'm a best selling author, a different sort of fairy tale that I still sometimes wonder when I'll wake up… — Erin Morgenstern Copy Share Image
When you're late in a fairy tale, people wind up dead. And not true-love's-kiss, glass-coffin-nap-time dead. Really dead, the kind of dead… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“Life'd be a lot easier if it were like a fairy tale," said Cassandra, "if people belonged to stock character types." "Oh,… — Kate Morton Copy Share Image
“People seem always actually to know, with a degree of pain that has required the comfort of fairy tales, that when you… — Anne Hollander Copy Share Image
“You can`t change destinies already written, that only happens in fairy tales.” — Katie McGarry Copy Share Image
Armchair warriors often fail - and we've been poisoned by these fairy tales — Don Henley Copy Share Image
Generally speaking, it has been my ambition to write as a good old nurse will speak when she tells fairy tales. — Joseph Jacobs Copy Share Image
“I really feel that we're not giving children enough credit for distinguishing what's right and what's wrong. I, for one, devoured fairy… — J.K. Rowling Copy Share Image
“He’s an eternal child. Sees the world like it should be in a fairy tale, minus the evil characters. Everything is bright… — C.F. White 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
“Look, I can appreciate this. I was young too, I felt just like you. Hated authority, hated all my bosses, thought they… — George Huang Copy Share Image
“I found the kingdom of far far away, prince charming would not be so far.” — Arzum Uzun Copy Share Image
The world of religion isn't a logical world; that's why children like it. It's a world of worked-out fantasies, very similar to… — Yehuda Amichai Copy Share Image
They [Fairy Tales] are talking about real emotions, telling true stories, through the medium of metaphor. People used to understand metaphor better… — Jane Yolen Copy Share Image
Sometimes you have to censor books. When I read 'Peter Rabbit,' I skip the part about Peter's father ending up in one… — Regina Brett Copy Share Image
“He examined the shiny symmetrical snowflakes melting on his warm paws. As a child, he had always wanted to have a collection… — D. Vernet Copy Share Image