Escape Quote by Lloyd Alexander

The way to read a fairy tale is to throw yourself in.

— Anonymous

Fairy tales were not my escape from reality as a child; rather, they were my reality -- for mine was a world in which…

— Terri Windling

Every fairy tale offers the potential to surpass present limits, so in a sense the fairy tale offers you freedoms that reality denies.

— Azar Nafisi

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

Only thin, weak thinkers despise fairy stories. Each one has a true, strange fact hidden in it, you know, which you can find if…

— Diana Wynne Jones

To me, a fairy tale seems to have become reality.

— Nelly Sachs

So there are different examples of fairy tales, and sometimes I believe in them and sometimes I don't.

— Taylor Swift

Fairy tales are more than true.

— Gilbert K. Chesterton

Fairy tales are not real. However, myths are the historical notes of those who were much wiser than ourselves. We therefore have no right…

— C. JoyBell C

I think what's fun about the fairytales is just seeing what everybody interprets them as, which comes from the different directors and what they…

— Colleen Atwood

When I used to read fairy-tales, I fancied that kind of thing never happened, and now here I am in the middle of one!

— Lewis Carroll

Fairy tales are stories of triumph and transformation and true love, all things I fervently believe in.

— Kate Forsyth