Children Quote by Kate Morton

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

— Roald Dahl

I didn't like fairy tales when I was younger. I found a lot of fairy tales scary. They really didn't sit well with me.

— Amanda Seyfried

I found a lot of fairy tales scary. They really didn't sit well with me.

— Amanda Seyfried

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

Fairytales were never really meant for children; they were meant as cautionary tales for teenagers on the verge of growing up.

— Kate Forsyth

[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'm very interested in talking about children in this moment where you are going to become a teenager, and I think it's very relevant…

— Lucile Hadzihalilovic

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

“The children will need new stories and fairy tales to see them through their nightmares and daydreams, to transfigure their sorrows and fears at…

— Keith Donohue

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

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

— Susanne Bier

Violence has been a part of storytelling forever and there's obviously a reason for it. Fairy tales are really violent, the original ones. I…

— Jane Levy