Adults Quote by Andre Breton

Fairytales are stories that span every generation and they've been around for a long time.

— Jamie Dornan

Many people think fairy tales and retellings of fairy tales are only for children, but I'm not the only writer to take an old…

— Kate Forsyth

“the 'fairy-story' is really an adult genre, and one for which a starving audience exists.”

— J.R.R. Tolkien

I'm very interested in talking about children in this moment where you are going to become a teenager, and I think it's very relevant…

— Lucile Hadzihalilovic

Though now we think of fairy tales as stories intended for very young children, this is a relatively modern idea. In the oral tradition,…

— Terri Windling

Fairy tales are experienced by their hearers and readers, not as realistic, but as symbolic poetry.

— Max Luthi

As I read more and more fairy tales as an adult, I found massive collusion between their 'subjects' and those in my fiction: childhood,…

— Kate Bernheimer

Fairy tales are more than true.

— Gilbert K. Chesterton

I never grew up reading or fantasizing about fairy tales. I was always too busy, like, outside being a kid.

— Armie Hammer

Fairy-tales are nice.

— Syd Barrett

“It is usually assumed that children are the natural or the specially appropriate audience for fairy-stories. In describing a fairy-story which they think adults…

— J.R.R. Tolkien

I think a lot of things are at play when children enjoy a grisly old fairytale. I don't think many children take it literally,…

— Robert Paul Weston