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I was raised just on Grimm's fairy tales.

— Brett Cooper

I'm with the Grimms on this: stories for young and old. You can't characterize them any better than that.

— Philip Pullman

All stories teach, whether the storyteller intends them to or not. They teach the world we create. They teach the morality we live by.…

— Philip Pullman

I did translations of Grimms' Fairy Tales and became very charmed about that way of looking at things. Fairy tales tell a lot of…

— Lore Segal

I am not sure how much good is done by moralising about fairy tales. This can be unsubtle - telling children that virtue will…

— A. S. Byatt

In the old fairy tales, often a 'moral' was tacked on at the end of the story - say, if a book was going…

— Kate Bernheimer

“Stories don’t teach us to be good; it isn’t as simple as that. They show us what it feels like to be good, or…

— Philip Pullman

“It is interesting that the worst retellings of traditional fairy tales are those that heavy-handedly take the step of making a moral point.”

— Isobelle Carmody

A massive and brilliant accomplishment--the first English translation of the original Grimm brothers' fairy tales. The plain telling is that much more forceful for…

— Donna Jo Napoli

In some ways, what I learned is that you can take a character and breathe with them, and its up to the audience to…

— Aden Young

I love Grimms, so I love the original 'Snow White and the Evil Queen.' The story has the most amazing values.

— Brett Cooper

All fables, indeed, have their morals; but the innocent enjoy the story.

— Henry David Thoreau