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- For a long time I found the celebrities of modern painting and poetry ridiculous. I loved absurd pictures, fanlights, stage scenery, mountebanks… — Arthur Rimbaud
- I'm an interpreter of stories. When I perform it's like sitting down at my piano and telling fairy stories. — Nat King Cole
- ....This world needs Utopias as it needs fairy stories. It does not matter so much where we are going, as long as… — Hendrik Willem van Loon
- I loved [fairy stories] so, and my mother weighed down by grief had given up telling me them. At Nohant I found… — George Sand
- Sometimes fairy stories may say best what's to be said. — C.S. Lewis
- As a child, my mother told me lots of fairy stories, many her own invention. She, too, tended to reverse the norm. — Tanith Lee
- As a shy kid growing up in Sheffield, I fantasized about how it would be great to be famous so I wouldn't… — Jarvis Cocker
- The objection to fairy stories is that they tell children there are dragons. But children have always known there are dragons. Fairy… — Gilbert K. Chesterton
- I was always fascinated by fairy stories, fantasy, you know, demons, necromancers, gods and goddesses, everything that is out of our kin… — Christopher Lee
- I was born an only child in Vienna, Austria. My father found hours to sit by me by the library fire and… — Hedy Lamarr
- I have claimed that Escape is one of the main functions of fairy-stories, and since I do not disapprove of them, it… — J.R.R. Tolkien
- Names are still magic; even Sharon, Karen, Darren, and Warren are magic to somebody somewhere. In fairy stories, naming is knowledge. When… — Jeanette Winterson