One of the best things about folklore and fairy tales is that the best fantasy is what you find right around the… — Terri Windling Copy Share Image
I have a bit of a love affair with fairy tales and some of the ideas of Irish mythology, like Oscar Wilde… — Hozier Copy Share Image
Though aware that there is nothing in the universe that suggests any purpose for humanity, one way that we can find a… — Steven Weinberg Copy Share Image
“Love is hard Phoenix. It’s not always easy like you see in fairy tales. You have to take the good with the… — Victoria Ashley Copy Share Image
Nicholas wanted to believe in fairy tales. She'd read her share, hoping for miracles, but in the end, there was no hundred… — Christine Feehan Copy Share Image
“READ. You have no business wanting to be a writer unless you are a reader. You should read fantasies and essays, biographies… — Kate DiCamillo Copy Share Image
“When I was a little girl, I believed in fairy tales and one of the dreams I had was someday dancing alongside… — Lisa De Jong Copy Share Image
“My family was relatively normal: the kind of normal where my stepfather blamed everything on the Amish, and my older sister thought… — Amber D. Tran Copy Share Image
“Have you ever pondered the miracle of popcorn? It starts out as a tiny, little, compact kernel with magic trapped inside that… — Richelle E. Goodrich Copy Share Image
In mythos and fairy tales, deities and other great spirits test the hearts of humans by showing up in various forms that… — Clarissa Pinkola Estes Copy Share Image
One of my heroes, G.K. Chesterton, said, "The old fairy tales endure forever. The old fairy tale makes the hero a normal… — Regina Doman Copy Share Image
“so that it isn't upsetting to anybody. It's something we've always known about fairy tales – they talk about incest, the Oedipus… — Maurice Sendak Copy Share Image
“The romantic notion of "opposites attract" works well in fairy tales. However, science proves that "like attracts like" for healthy communication and… — Susan C. Young Copy Share Image
“I tell them: don’t depend on a woodsman in the third act. I tell them: look for sets of three, or seven.… — Catherynne M. Valente Copy Share Image
“The fairy tale of film—created with the magic of animation—is the modern equivalent of the great parables of the Middle Ages. Creation… — Walt Disney Copy Share Image
“In answer, the news of the Gospel is that extraordinary things happen. ... Lear goes berserk on a heath but comes out… — Frederick Buechner Copy Share Image
“I've just had my very first breast-gasm. My first orgasm stemming from my breast, and it was ah-mazing. I've read about them,… — Nicole Reed Copy Share Image
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
Gina always believed there was magic in the world. "But it doesn't work in the way it does in fairy tales," she… — Charles de Lint Copy Share Image
“All fairy tales, Tolkien argued, echo the gospel of Jesus Christ in some way because the gospel is the True Story; it’s… — Sarah Arthur Copy Share Image
I wake each day and try to see what I might do that is of some value and joy. It's a strange… — Kent Haruf Copy Share Image
“One evening, after a particularly terrible row, the prince smashed his princess over the head with an old wooden clock and she… — Brooke Warra Copy Share Image
Once upon a time fairy tales were told to audiences of young and old alike. It is only in the last century… — Terri Windling Copy Share Image
I am completely fascinated by the differences and comparisons between real life and fairy tales because we're raised as little girls to… — Taylor Swift Copy Share Image
Me and my needs were driving my mother away. Me and my needs retreated to my closet, disappeared into fairy tales. I… — Marya Hornbacher Copy Share Image
“Besides he knew that there is nothing like a long walk for getting rid of sadness. It flows out of your feet… — Gordon Jarvie editor Copy Share Image
I believe that our lives, just like fairy tales - the stories that have been written by us humans, through our own… — Lucinda Riley Copy Share Image
“I wasn’t afraid of your average dark alley. I had standard Agency-issue spells in my coat and a nine millimeter in my… — J.C. Nelson 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
“Fairy tales teach us not just about love, but to fight for the things that you want. They show us that no… — Kaylynne Spauls Copy Share Image
Once upon a time... ...there were fairy tales about princesses, knights, the magic of the true love kiss. Nowadays... I meet my… — Allegra Copy Share Image
I'm used to writing fairy tales that can be somewhat dark, and the truth is that in fairy tales, romances are always… — Theodora Goss Copy Share Image
“How above-the-law children's books are. Hansel and Gretel (littering, breaking and entering), Rumpelstiltskin (forced labor), Snow White (conspiracy to commit murder), Rapunzel… — Sloane Crosley 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
I went to the library as soon as I could walk. So the training came from reading all kinds of people, from… — Nat Hentoff Copy Share Image
“She dreamt in shades of amethyst, drinking the deep purple elixir in ballads of wood nymphs, tiptoeing by elves that hid in… — Gina Marinello-Sweeney Copy Share Image
The unsparing savagery of stories like the Robber Bridegroom is a sharp reminder that fairy tales belong to the childhood of culture… — Maria Tatar Copy Share Image
There are people in the world who have skills and strength and talent that I will never have. Never. These notions that… — Jocko Willink Copy Share Image
My inspiration is my life, what I see happening around me. It can be history and, quite often, plain traditional fairy tales.… — Michel Ocelot Copy Share Image
My father leaving the family shaped who I was and how I looked at the world. By the same token, my father… — Kate DiCamillo Copy Share Image
