I was a Nancy Drew girl. Also Grimms' fairy tales.
Fairy tales are experienced by their hearers and readers, not as realistic, but as symbolic poetry.
I grew up with a lot of fairy tales. And they had an essence of darkness to them.
Every man's life is a fairy tale written by God's fingers.
My life is a fairy tale. You could not make it up.
I'll be left writing picture books and fairy tales.
Not all fairy tales have happily ever afters, some just have afters.
If you want to tell grown-up fairy tales, you have to look for the dark side.
Dragons and bridges are very much something out of fairy tales and fantasy.
The unrealistic nature of these tales (which narrowminded rationalists object to) is an important device, because it makes obvious that the fairy tales’ concern is not useful information about the external world, but the inner process taking place ...
One of my heroes, G.K. Chesterton, said, "The old fairy tales endure forever. The old fairy tale makes the hero a normal human boy; it is his adventures that are startling; they startle him because he is normal." Discovering that the modern world can...
You want the fairy tale." "I want a chance at it.
The world is a fairy tale; we are its guardians.
Maybe my fairy tale has a different ending than I dreamed it would. But that's OK.
I like being scared, so I've always liked fairy tales because they're kind of creepy.
I began to believe the fairy tales: You know, how we're all out there looking for our magical missing half.
Well, Company of Wolves was about that literally, about fairy tales.
I never quite understood why Disney hadn't made a sincere fairy tale since 'Beauty and the Beast.'
The good historian is like the giant of the fairy tale. He knows that wherever he catches the scent of human flesh, there his quarry lies.
In fact, you"-he pointed his fork at me-"look like a fairy tale.
People don't like the true and simple; they like fairy tales and humbug.
