Abstraction Quote by Kate Bernheimer

Though now we think of fairy tales as stories intended for very young children, this is a relatively modern idea. In the oral tradition,…

— Terri Windling

I loved fairy tales as a kid. I've always been drawn to fantasy. They're always exciting. There's never a dull moment. I just love…

— Gail Carson Levine

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

I wanted the chance to look again at very famous stories and see what made them work well, whether there were any ways in…

— Philip Pullman

I love fairy tales because of their haunting beauty and magical strangeness. They are set in worlds where anything can happen. Frogs can be…

— Kate Forsyth

“After a childhood reading fairy tales and myths, is it any wonder that when I began to write my own stories I included fairy…

— Elizabeth Hoyt

I’ve always loved fairytales, and I’ve loved the concept of, um, some of the best parts of a lot of stories are the beginning.

— Darren Criss

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

— Linn Ullmann

I think almost everybody enjoyed fairy tales when they were young, tales of witches and ogres and monsters and dragons and so forth. You…

— Stan Lee

The narrative of so many fairy tales are timeless in so many different cultures, and they have been since the dawn of man. They…

— Lily Cole

I've loved fairytales, folklore and mythology since I was a small child, and I think it was inevitable that they would influence my style…

— Juliet Marillier

What I like about fairy tales is the language and the matter-of-fact way of introducing magic, where it's accepted that a fox could talk…

— Alice Hoffman