Book Quote by Jane Levy

Fairy tales are really violent, the original ones.

— Jane Levy

Stories come from violence, they come from sex. They come from death. They come from the dark places that everyone has to go to,…

— Joss Whedon

The old fairy tales are very, very violent, and these days I think we could do with a little less of it.

— Julie Andrews

A lot of fairy tales are thinly disguised hostility raps against parents. Kids know that they can't make it on their own, that if…

— Stephen King

If you look at children's stories in fairy tales, they're pretty brutal.

— Susanne Bier

Children are much more understanding of the suddenness and arbitrariness of death than we are. The old fairy tales contain a lot of that,…

— Emma Thompson

“It has generally been assumed that fairy tales were first created for children and are largely the domain of children. But nothing could be…

— Jack Zipes

Fairy tales have always got to have something a bit scary for children - as long as you make them laugh as well.

— Roald Dahl

The fairy tale emanates from specific struggles to humanize bestial and barbaric forces, which have terrorized our minds and communities in concrete ways, threatening…

— Jack Zipes

[Fairy tales] are like a journey to the woods and the many ways you can get lost. Some people say it's not a good…

— Alice Hoffman

I think a lot of things are at play when children enjoy a grisly old fairytale. I don't think many children take it literally,…

— Robert Paul Weston

I'm not a big fan of kids' movies that have this knowing snarkiness to them or this post-modern take on storytelling. I think that…

— John C. Reilly