Children Quote by Neil Gaiman

“Fairytales teach children that the world is fraught with danger, including life-threatening danger; but by being clever (always), honest (as a rule, but with…

— J. Aleksandr Wootton

I'm not a big fan of kids' movies that have this knowing snarkiness to them or this post-modern take on storytelling. I think that…

— John C. Reilly

Fairy tales are loved by the child not because the imagery he finds in them conforms to what goes on within him, but because--despite…

— Bruno Bettelheim

“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

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

[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

Fairy tales, because they have a very clear structure, are easier to interfere with. Also they have this really weird logic: the kind of…

— Helen Oyeyemi

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

— Roald Dahl

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

— Susanne Bier

As I read more and more fairy tales as an adult, I found massive collusion between their 'subjects' and those in my fiction: childhood,…

— Kate Bernheimer

“Fairy tales are about trouble, about getting into and out of it, and trouble seems to be a necessary stage on the route to…

— Rebecca Solnit