Despise Quote by Diana Wynne Jones

“Only weak thinkers do not love the sky.”

— Katherine Rundell

Things we are accustomed to regard as myth or fairy story are very much present in people's lives. Nice people behave like wicked stepmothers.…

— Diana Wynne Jones

It may be important to great thinkers to examine the world, to explain and despise it. But I think it is only important to…

— Hermann Hesse

“Forests to the [early] Northern European peoples were dangerous and generous, domestic and wild, beautiful and terrible. And the forests were the terrain out…

— Sara Maitland

“It’s not that I don’t write fairy stories because I don’t believe in fairies. I don’t write fairy stories because fairies don’t like me.”

— Daniel Kemp

A myth is, of course, not a fairy story. It is the presentation of facts belonging to one category in the idioms appropriate to…

— Gilbert Ryle

“Now fairy stories are at risk too, like the forests. Padraic Column has suggested that artificial lighting dealt them a mortal wound: when people…

— Sara Maitland

“In England in the 19th century, advances in printing methods, combined with the rise of a prosperous middle class, engendered a booming new industry…

— Terri Windling

“That girl has been listening,” she said. The culprit snatched up her brush, and scrambled to her feet. She caught at the coal box…

— Frances Hodgson Burnett

Atheism is a fairy story for people afraid of the Light

— John Lennox

When my sister and I were very young, my father used to tell us fairy stories that he'd made up. My mother was always…

— Nicolas Roeg

As a child, my mother told me lots of fairy stories, many her own invention. She, too, tended to reverse the norm.

— Tanith Lee