Ambition Quote by Joseph Jacobs

Fairy tales and folk tales have always played a role in my writing in one way or another.

— Linn Ullmann

Sometimes fairy stories may say best what's to be said.

— C. S. Lewis

I'm an interpreter of stories. When I perform it's like sitting down at my piano and telling fairy stories.

— Nat King Cole

I was a very good nurse, but I burned out after eight years or so because it wasn't what I truly wanted to do.…

— Sue Monk Kidd

No matter what you write, you actually can't help retelling a fairy tale somewhere along the way.

— Catherynne M. Valente

I have been writing fairy tales for as long as I can remember. Not much has changed in terms of my natural attraction to…

— Kate Bernheimer

I was telling stories before I could write. I like to tell stories, and I like to talk to things. If you]ve read fairy…

— J. California Cooper

Saying my story makes me want to change it, make it sound pretty the way I do with the stories I tell the workers.…

— Shannon Hale

“In my experience, involvement in fairy tales is unavoidable no matter who you are, no matter how many fairy tales you’ve lived through already.”

— Kendra E. Ardnek

“Ever since Eliza had discovered the book of fairy tales . . . had disappeared inside its faded pages, she'd understood the power of…

— Kate Morton

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

“When my mom was alive, she read me stories every night. ”Use your imagination, Lorelei,” she’d say, “and your whole life can be a…

— Nikki Loftin