Anderson Quote by Sandra Cisneros

I've loved fairytales, folklore and mythology since I was a small child, and I think it was inevitable that they would influence my style…

— Juliet Marillier

Fairy tales and folk tales have always played a role in my writing in one way or another.

— Linn Ullmann

One of my favorite writers is Hans Christian Anderson. His stories speak to the times.

— Sandra Cisneros

I liked Hans Christian Andersen because the tales were so dark and tragic.

— Aimee Bender

I love fairy tales and feel very affected by them.

— Alice Hoffman

Imagine an American Hans Christian Andersen, conceive of the Brothers Grimm living in Missouri, and you will approximate Howard Schwartz, a fable-maker and fable-gatherer…

— Cynthia Ozick

Creatively, most of my influences come from the literary world: Alice Walker, Toni Cade Bambara. Writers are my heroes.

— Dee Rees

I was brought up, as a lot of kids are, on 'Aesop's Fables,' 'Brothers Grimm,' 'La Fontaine,' all those sorts of things. Hans Christian…

— Michael Morpurgo

My inspiration is my life, what I see happening around me. It can be history and, quite often, plain traditional fairy tales. But I…

— Michel Ocelot

I have no illusions concerning the precarious status of my tales and do not expect to become a serious competitor of my favorite weird…

— H. P. Lovecraft

I've always loved fairy tales. I think they perhaps led me to theater rather than the other way around. As a child I wanted…

— Mary Zimmerman

I am very much interested in fairy tales. I guess that most of the films I like to do have this kind of aspect.

— Lucile Hadzihalilovic