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And I thought, when I have kids, that's the sort of well told, silly, and fun fairy tale that I would want to take them… — Mike Myers
I think a lot of times it just looks like Hollywood actors in Halloween costumes, you know? And I think what we’re going to do… — Miles Teller
Children are much more understanding of the suddenness and arbitrariness of death than we are. The old fairy tales contain a lot of that, and… — Emma Thompson
As one tale ends, so another begins. — Jackie Chan
The son has always felt like he was a footnote in one of the stories the father tells. The father is an amazing storyteller and… — Danny DeVito
I think dreams can come true, but not necessarily like fairy-tales. It's not always so perfect like that. — Patrick Dempsey
We writers – and especially writers for children, but all writers – have an obligation to our readers: it's the obligation to write true things, especially important… — Neil Gaiman
Tales From Topographic Oceans is like a woman's padded bra, — Rick Wakeman
The idea of my life as a fairy tale is itself a fairy tale, — Grace Kelly
At the end of the day, love is such a normal thing, and everyone deals with it. Just because it's a different lifestyle doesn't change… — Selena Gomez
The myths and folk tales of the whole world make clear that the refusal is essentially a refusal to give up what one takes to… — Joseph Campbell
Every constellation’s like its own fairy tale. — Lauren Miller
People gave names to things so they could tell stories about them, goddam fairy tales about children who got out alive. — Sam Lipsyte
OTHERBOUND is a web of spells and counterspells, but Corinne Duyvis never loses sight of the bodies, minds and all-too-human emotions that absorb the impact… — Margo Lanagan
Kate Bernheimer's fiction offers a unique and delicate gift, the tempting mirage of a grace that constantly escapes. The Complete Tales of Merry Gold is… — Lydia Millet
Breathes life into a vital but oft-neglected chapter of our history. Amy Belding Brown has turned an authentic drama of Indian captivity into a compelling,… — Unknown Author
I wished that, for once, faery tales – real faery tales, not Disney fairy tales – would have a happy ending. — Julie Kagawa
Be careful, boy. In some tales, the hero gets eaten by the monster after all . — Julie Kagawa
What do you do when the story changes in midlife? When a tale you have told yourself turns out to be a little untrue, just… — Gail Caldwell
You can’t change the tale so that you turned left one day instead of right, or didn’t make the mistake that might have saved your… — Gail Caldwell
By nature, a storyteller is a plagiarist. Everything one comes across--each incident, book, novel, life episode, story, person, news clip--is a coffee bean that will… — Rabih Alameddine
Listen, my father had written. Listen to hear if they are telling the truth or only part of the truth, for that is the lesson… — Kate Elliott
The Wikks are regular kids given a Galactic size challenge. Readers will follow Oliver, Tiffany, and twins, Mason and Austin as they trek through eerie… — Wayne Thomas Batson
Maybe if people can't have an end to their suffering, the next thing they seek for is to know why they suffer. Suffering is a… — Matthew J. Kirby
Home is the place you return to when you have finally lost your soul. Home is the place where life is born, not the place… — Karen Maitland

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