“Now fairy stories are at risk too, like the forests. Padraic Column has suggested that artificial lighting dealt them a mortal wound:… — Sara Maitland Copy Share Image
“What are they supposed to do when they've been told their whole lives not to believe in fairy tales?” — Heather O'Neill 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
“The happily ever after thing. It's great when she marries the prince or whatever and they say that. But they just don't… — Mark D. Diehl Copy Share Image
If Im honest, I have to tell you I still read fairy tales and I like them best of all. — Bubbly Copy Share Image
William Shakespeare was the most remarkable storyteller that the world has ever known. Homer told of adventure and men at war, Sophocles… — Marchette Chute Copy Share Image
“Fate is for fairy tales. It’s a romantic notion. Luck is what happens when you’re in the right place at the right… — Cassia Leo Copy Share Image
“Once upon a time, when I was a child reading fairy tales, I'd ached to have my own adventures. Not that I'd… — Karen Chance Copy Share Image
“Apart from such visits, for the first time in her life Eliza was truly alone. In the beginning, unfamiliar sounds, nocturnal sounds,… — Kate Morton Copy Share Image
As a relentless gatherer of moments, I find that my favorite images, although grounded in the present, are like spirits shaped by… — Sylvia Plachy Copy Share Image
“And fairy tales are make-believe. They are the stories we tell to small children to make them believe the world is a… — J.L. Vallance Copy Share Image
Fairy tales, because they have a very clear structure, are easier to interfere with. Also they have this really weird logic: the… — Helen Oyeyemi Copy Share Image
“He'd practically saved her life! It was so....romantic. Just like in fairy tales. Just like Westley saved Buttercup in The Princess Bride.… — Jennifer Ziegler Copy Share Image
“Because home is where your heart is. And one heart can work wonders when it's beating strongly. And the sweet fairy tales… — Georgia Kakalopoulou Copy Share Image
“If you cannot see the fineness in my Hammer, you'd best look at him with better eyes.” — Amy Lane Copy Share Image
Imagination has given us the steam engine, the telephone, the talking-machine, and the automobile, for these things had to be dreamed of… — L. Frank Baum Copy Share Image
Following your dreams may seem as something out of a book of fairy tales for some, but the following of dreams is… — Anurag Prakash Ray Copy Share Image
“...but there were no faerie godmothers. There were only mothers and grandmothers, and there was no magic wand to wave over a… — Laurell K. Hamilton Copy Share Image
I think that Shakespeare himself raided fairy tales and chronicle writers, and he always looked to people who worked in the mythic… — Kenneth Branagh 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
“Estates are sometimes held by foolish forms, the breaking of a stick or the payment of a peppercorn. I was willing to… — G.K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
A lot of fairy tales are thinly disguised hostility raps against parents. Kids know that they can't make it on their own,… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
“It doesn't matter if you're born in a duck yard, so long as you are hatched from a swan's egg!” — Hans Christian Andersen Copy Share Image
Years ago, fairy tales all began with Once upon a time... now we know they all begin with, If I am elected. — Carolyn Warner Copy Share Image