Certainty 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

Recasting fairy tales has become a publishing sub-genre in itself, and has been done both well and to the point of entropy. More interesting…

— Graham Joyce

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

For most of human history, 'literature,' both fiction and poetry, has been narrated, not written — heard, not read. So fairy tales, folk tales,…

— Angela Carter

“I think people should take mythology much more seriously, because it tells us an awful lot about the history of the human race. We…

— Jan Siegel

What works about fairy tales is that they endure, and the great thing about fairy tales is that you can explore big, epic things…

— Gary Ross

Many people think fairy tales and retellings of fairy tales are only for children, but I'm not the only writer to take an old…

— Kate Forsyth

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 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

“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 been about getting through the worst of everything, the darkest and the deepest and the bloodiest of events. They are…

— Catherynne M. Valente

Fairytales work on two levels. On a conscious level, they are stories of true love and triumph and overcoming difficult odds and so are…

— Kate Forsyth