Books Quote by Max Luthi

Fairy tales and mythology have always been an exaggerated distillation of the real world. Think of them as blueprints for how to deal with…

— Charles de Lint

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

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

They [Fairy Tales] are talking about real emotions, telling true stories, through the medium of metaphor. People used to understand metaphor better than I…

— Jane Yolen

People tend to think of fairy tales as 'archetypal.' They are also extremely sensual, something which translates well over the ages.

— Kate Bernheimer

Fairy tales have a hidden power, and their appeal never ends. They're the best way to get messages across.

— Michel Ocelot

As a reader, coming to my reading as a writer immersed in fairytales, I cant help but notice in so many stories, plays, poems…

— Kate Bernheimer

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

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

Fairytales are stories that span every generation and they've been around for a long time.

— Jamie Dornan

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

“The literary fairy tale became an acceptable social symbolic form through which conventionalized motifs, characters, and plots were selected, composed, arranged, and rearranged to…

— Jack Zipes