Because Quote by Aimee Bender Download Open image “I liked Hans Christian Andersen because the tales were so dark and tragic.” — Aimee Bender ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.2 out of 5 (6 ratings) Copy quoteShare Because Christian Dark Hans Christian Andersen Liked Tales Tragic Were
I never liked Hans Christian Andersen because I knew he was always getting at me. — J. R. R. Tolkien Copy Share Image
One of my favorite writers is Hans Christian Anderson. His stories speak to the times. — Sandra Cisneros Copy Share Image
I was brought up, as a lot of kids are, on 'Aesop's Fables,' 'Brothers Grimm,' 'La Fontaine,' all those sorts of things. Hans Christian… — Michael Morpurgo Copy Share Image
I loved fairy tales when I was a kid. Grimm. The grimmer the better. I loved gruesome gothic tales and, in that respect, I… — Amy Tan Copy Share Image
In kindergarten that used to be my job, to tell them fairytales. I liked Hans Christian Andersen, and the Grimm fairy tales, all the… — Francis Ford Coppola 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
From as far back as I can remember, I always loved the King Arthur stories, fairy tales, mythology - things like that. So it… — Lloyd Alexander 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
If I'm honest I have to tell you I still read fairy-tales and I like them best of all. — Audrey Hepburn Copy Share Image
When I was a kid, the book that I liked the most was 'Aesop's Fables.' There was a version of it that my father… — Mark Mothersbaugh Copy Share Image
I like being scared, so I've always liked fairy tales because they're kind of creepy. — Lana Parrilla Copy Share Image
Ever since I was young, I've read Austen and the Brontes. My friends laugh, but those books are always so tragic and wonderful -… — Jessica Brown Findlay Copy Share Image
“Does it work with sandwiches? he asked. I didn't move. He handed it over. George was watching with a kind of neutral curiosity, and I wasn't sure what I was supposed to do, so I just unwrapped it and took a bite. It was a homemade ham-and-cheese-and-mustard sandwich, on white bread, with a thin piece of lettuce in the middle.… — Aimee Bender Copy Share
There's a spectrum of those moments of connection and the moments we fail to connect, going from super-large successes to failures. Success would be… — Aimee Bender Copy Share Image
I did plays in college, and I have half of a play. But I'm kind of stuck. I keep revisiting it so maybe it… — Aimee Bender Copy Share Image
“My genes, my love, are rubber bands and rope - make yourself a structure you can live inside.” — Aimee Bender Copy Share Image
One thing I don't want to feel is marketplace pressure, so I'm really glad I enjoy teaching because I can rely on that for… — Aimee Bender Copy Share Image
Language is the ticket to plot and character, after all, because both are built out of language. — Aimee Bender Copy Share Image
“The sensor did not seem to be restricted to my mother's food, and there was so much to sort through, a torrent of information, but with George there, sitting in the fading warmth of the filtered afternoon springtime sun spilling through the kitchen windows, making me buttered toast which I ate happily, light and good with his concentration and gentle… — Aimee Bender Copy Share
I peeled the skin off a grape in slippery little triangles, and I understood then that I would be undressing every item of food… — Aimee Bender Copy Share Image
It was like we were exchanging codes, on how to be a father and a daughter, like we'd read about it in a manual,… — Aimee Bender Copy Share Image
“I started in our neighborhood, buying a pastrami burrito at Oki Dog and a deluxe gardenburger at Astro Burger and matzoh-ball soup at Greenblatt's and some greasy egg rolls at the Formosa. In part funny, and rigid, and sleepy, and angry. People. Then I made concentric circles outward, reaching first to Canter's and Pink's, then rippling farther, tofu at Yabu… — Aimee Bender Copy Share
“I loved my dish towel. This one was two-toned, and had, on one side, stitchings of fat purple roses on a lavender background, and… — Aimee Bender Copy Share Image
One is a painter because one wants so-called freedom; one doesn't want to go to the office every morning. — Marcel Duchamp Copy Share Image
I gave my archive to Emory University because there's a really dear friend who teaches there, Rudolph Byrd, and he's the editor. — Alice Walker Copy Share Image
Because of the womb being a central phenomenon in the feminine body, the whole psychology of woman differs: she is non-aggressive, non-inquiring, non-questioning, non-doubting,… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
I love casting against type and doing things you wouldn't expect, because I think you get more interesting performances that way. Hollywood loves to… — David S. Goyer Copy Share Image
There were songs that we cut out after we chose the name, because 'Praise Break' turned out to be an underlying concept that I… — Daniel Caesar Copy Share Image
It took me 20 years to buy an electric typewriter, because I was afraid it would be too sensitive. I like to bang the… — Elmore Leonard Copy Share Image
I was also known as Frodo because I was an early adopter of 'The Lord of the Rings. — Tom Perrotta Copy Share Image
I believe in taxation and health care that is outside the usual libertarian mandate, because I don't want people to have to suffer. It's… — Neil Peart Copy Share Image
It's like saying French shouldn't be taught because you don't understand it because it's new. Shakespeare is just like learning a new, exciting language. — Samuel Barnett Copy Share Image
Whether it was Little League or playing with your brothers or sisters, that was always a problem. If I would lose - because I… — Cal Ripken, Jr Copy Share Image
Sometimes, when full and in fear that I will continue to eat unwanted food just because it's staring at me, I will place my… — Rachel Nichols Copy Share Image
I didn't want to do 'Fashion Police' because I thought, 'This is stupid, this is beneath me, who wants to talk about fashion?' It… — Joan Rivers Copy Share Image
