Brothers grimm Quote by Leo Tolstoy

I often visit Maria Tatar's 'The Grimm Reader' for a cold dose of courage. Her translations come from the Brothers Grimm, whose now-famous collection…

— Kate Bernheimer

“Fairy tales for adult readers remained popular throughout Europe well into the 19th century — particularly in Germany, where the Brothers Grimm published their…

— Terri Windling

the association of children and fairy-stories is an accident of our domestic history. Fairy-stories have in the modern lettered world been relegated to the…

— Anonymous

My mother's childhood was complex, disjointed, and disturbing. As children, we would gather round and ask her to tell us again and again The…

— Lisa Jewell

I was raised just on Grimm's fairy tales.

— Brett Cooper

The brothers Grimm were indeed once read by millions of people - quite often the first reading materials given to people in the 1950s…

— Michael Rosen

“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

“Fairy tales and folk tales are for children and childlike people, not because they are little and inconsequential, but because they are as enormous…

— Anthony Esolen

I was raised on the brothers Grimm, but my favorite fairy tales in the world are Oscar Wilde's - 'The Nightingale and the Rose,'…

— Denis O'Hare

Fairy tales are about money, marriage, and men. They are the maps and manuals that are passed down from mothers and grandmothers to help…

— Marina Warner

“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

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