Fairy tale Quote by Victor LaValle Download Open image ““A bad fairy tale has some simple goddamn moral. A great fairy tale tells the truth.”” — Victor LaValle ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.6 out of 5 (6 ratings) Copy quoteShare Fairy tale Storytelling
“It is interesting that the worst retellings of traditional fairy tales are those that heavy-handedly take the step of making a moral point.” — Isobelle Carmody Copy Share Image
“What I mean is, all the terrible things that happen in fairy tales seem real. Or not real, but genuine. Life is unfair, and the bad guys keep winning and good people die. But I like how that's not always the end of it...Evil is real, but so is good. They always say fairy tales are simplistic, black and white,… — Polly Shulman Copy Share
“In fairy tales they all seem perfect, but really they are just as troubled as we are!” — Teal Vitler Copy Share Image
“I don't believe in fairy tales. I believe in making my own damn tale.” — Nicole Williams Copy Share Image
“at the center of every fairy tale lay a truth that gave the story its power.” — Susan Wiggs Copy Share Image
“Great novels are above all great fairy tales . . . literature does not tell the truth but makes it up.” — Vladimir Nabokov Copy Share Image
“This is how you hustle the arcane. Skirt the rules but don’t break them.” — Victor LaValle Copy Share Image
Doubt is the big machine. It grinds up the delusions of women and men. — Victor LaValle Copy Share Image
A little style is a good thing, but you can’t trust a person who won’t be ugly in front of you. — Victor LaValle Copy Share Image
“People hear that you grew up religious, and they can’t imagine you’d have a complex relationship with faith. If you believe one part, you… — Victor LaValle Copy Share Image
“Wheeler turned back to Apollo. “I’ve never been this far uptown in Manhattan.” “Best roast chicken in New York is right on 175th,” Apollo… — Victor LaValle Copy Share Image
Why do any of us act the way we do? Is it our beliefs or our biology that shapes us? Lauren Grodstein considers this… — Victor LaValle Copy Share Image
“I don’t have much faith in institutions, but I still believe in people.” — Victor LaValle Copy Share Image
“A thought, an idea, a shared dream; parenthood is a story two people start telling together.” — Victor LaValle Copy Share Image
“From that time on they both looked forward to sleeping together. I might even say that the goal of their lovemaking was not so… — Milan Kundera Copy Share Image
I know my hair is out of the '60's, my clothes are '50's and the shoes I wear are from the '40's. But I… — Dolly Parton Copy Share Image
I have always been fascinated by the supernatural elements in stories, whether fairy tales, myths, film or literature. — Trudi Canavan Copy Share Image
“If this were a fairy tale, this would be the part where the fishboy appears and Diana shoots him through the heart. Because he… — Hannah Moskowitz Copy Share Image
“Yes sir, the fish was left in place of the crystal ball. It's been bagged and tagged for analysis.” Great. Now we have another… — A.F. Stewart Copy Share Image
Here is the world of imagination, hopes, and dreams. In this timeless land of enchantment, the age of chivalry, magic and make-believe are reborn… — Walt Disney Copy Share Image
Look at Jane Austen. Her characters derive in a reasonably straight line from fairy tales. — Andrew Davies Copy Share Image
Letters crossing in the post, unfamiliar tunes heard three times in one day, the way that blows of fate descend upon the same bowed… — Fay Weldon Copy Share Image
“He always had bread crumbs in his voice, and I followed them like a fairy tale.” — Courtney C. Stevens Copy Share Image
“What the Boy chiefly dabbled in was natural history and fairy tales, and he just took them as they came, in a sandwichy sort… — Kenneth Grahame Copy Share Image
“Go out into the world, traveler. See what the long nights and hard days feel like, after a week of them.” “Perhaps I will… — Katherine Arden Copy Share Image
I grew up watching monster movies and horror movies, which I felt were like fairy tales and I think this always spoke to me.… — Tim Burton Copy Share Image