Austen Quote by Andrew Davies

People tend to think of fairy tales as 'archetypal.' They are also extremely sensual, something which translates well over the ages.

— Kate Bernheimer

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

The great thing about fairy tales and myths is that they go beyond character. They're not about character. They're about more basic things. They're…

— Neil Jordan

Novels are to love as fairy tales to dreams.

— Samuel Taylor Coleridge

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

— Max Luthi

Only thin, weak thinkers despise fairy stories. Each one has a true, strange fact hidden in it, you know, which you can find if…

— Diana Wynne Jones

I wanted to avoid what some modern tellers have done, quite legitimately, to make fairy tales more like novels and short stories, to characterize…

— Philip Pullman

The more one knows fairy tales the less fantastical they appear; they can be vehicles of the grimmest realism, expressing hope against all the…

— Marina Warner

Fairy tales are more than true.

— Gilbert K. Chesterton

Fairy tales and mythology have always been an exaggerated distillation of the real world. Think of them as blueprints for how to deal with…

— Charles de Lint

I am completely fascinated by the differences and comparisons between real life and fairy tales because we're raised as little girls to think that…

— Taylor Swift

Fairy-tales are nice.

— Syd Barrett