Fairy tales have a hidden power, and their appeal never ends. They're the best way to get messages across. — Michel Ocelot Copy Share Image
To know, to esteem, to love,-and then to part, Makes up life's tale to many a feeling heart. — Samuel Taylor Coleridge Copy Share Image
It could have been like a fairy tale. But fairy tales aren't real. Things don't work like that. There's a price for… — Maureen Johnson Copy Share Image
[Fairy tales] make rivers run with wine only to make us remember, for one wild moment, that they run with water. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I want to be the best mum and I want everything to be perfect - I want a fairy tale really. — Jennifer Ellison Copy Share Image
Fairy tales are experienced by their hearers and readers, not as realistic, but as symbolic poetry. — Max Luthi Copy Share Image
She looks like a fairy tale, but yet feels so natural (natural, natural, natural) This one's a beast, but way to wonderful… — DJ Drama Copy Share Image
It is a rough road that leads to the heights of greatness. As is a tale, so is life: not how long… — Seneca the Younger Copy Share Image
As an audience member, those studio films are fun. I like an adventure tale, and I also like to go see something… — Michael Fassbender Copy Share Image
With respect," said Red, and his voice had gone so quiet people hushed each other to hear him, "my tale is yet… — Juliet Marillier Copy Share Image
Stories took twists and turns down fairy-tale paths or down very human everyday ones. You think you’re at the end of the… — Deb Caletti Copy Share Image
So we make stories of our own, in fevered and envious imitation of our Maker, hoping that we'll tell, by chance, what… — Clive Barker 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
And ever, as the story drained The wells of fancy dry, And faintly strove that weary one To put the subject by,… — Lewis Carroll Copy Share Image
Fairy tales had been her first experience of the magical universe, and more than once she had wondered why people ended up… — Paulo Coelho Copy Share Image
I wanted the chance to look again at very famous stories and see what made them work well, whether there were any… — Philip Pullman Copy Share Image
I was taught to read by my grandmother. Central to her method was a tale of unnatural love called 'The Duck and… — Gore Vidal Copy Share Image
Here and there and not just in books we catch glimpses of a world of once upon a time and they lived… — Frederick Buechner Copy Share Image
So let us raise a cheer ... for the insatiable spirit of Man eager for all new things! What a tale could… — Cecil Arthur Lewis Copy Share Image
Dickens is a much misunderstood and mis-approached writer, in that he tends to be read, particularly in the twentieth century, as a… — Martin Amis Copy Share Image
M. J. Putney's writing has always been magical; now that she has turned her hand to the telling of a fantasy tale,… — Elizabeth Haydon Copy Share Image
I now want to tell three stories about advances in twentieth-century physics. A curious fact emerges in these tales: time and again… — Steven Weinberg Copy Share Image
I had to create a children's show, because we wanted the money - and it was, interestingly enough, the first project at… — Richard Cotovsky Copy Share Image
I met Shannon Hale through some friends and family. I was interested in her book called Princess Academy, which is just a… — Jerusha Hess Copy Share Image
A drop of poison on that gathering snow. That moment in the fairy tale when we know what just happened but the… — Deb Caletti Copy Share Image
Pied Piper' came to me all at once; I wanted to do a fairy-tale movie with some edge, but not 'dark,' per… — Max Landis Copy Share Image
Writing imaginative tales for the young is like sending coals to Newcastle. For coals. — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
People take what they need from the stories they hear. The tale is often wiser than the teller. — Susan Fletcher Copy Share Image
I never saw fairy tales as an escape or a cop-out... On the contrary, speaking for myself, it is the way to… — Lloyd Alexander Copy Share Image
Fear of power invisible, feigned by the mind or imagined from tales publicly allowed, is religion; not allowed, superstition. — Thomas Hobbes Copy Share Image
All of my work is influenced by fairy tales, and I hope my work shows Hans Christian Anderson's influence. — Sandra Cisneros Copy Share Image
If you discover a word in my book that you don't understand, ask your parents so they can look it up in… — Gloria Estefan Copy Share Image
I loved him, but love isn't enough. All the fairy tales, the romance novels, the soap operas; they're all lies. Love does… — Laurell K. Hamilton Copy Share Image
In winter's tedious nights sit by the fire With good old folks, and let them tell thee tales Of woeful ages, long… — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
Fairy tales only happen in movies." -George Melies from The Invention of Hugo Cabret — Brian Selznick Copy Share Image
This act is an ancient tale new told; And, in the last repeating, troublesome, Being urged at a time unseasonable. — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
I think it is beyond doubt that H. P. Lovecraft has yet to be surpassed as the twentieth century's greatest practitioner of… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
Fairy tales lie just as much as statistics do, but sometimes you can find a grain of truth in them. — Sergei Lukyanenko Copy Share Image
It was not a happy ending of the sort in fairy tales, but it was the only one we had. — Megan Hart Copy Share Image
Let love comes to you, be patient. In fairy tales they don't find each other until the last page. — Anonymous Copy Share Image