To me, a fairy tale seems to have become reality.
I don't know what to think about magic and fairy tales.
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.
Never trust the artist. Trust the tale. The proper function of the critic is to save the tale from the artist who created it.
A man who is not born with the novel-writing gift has a troublesome time of it when he tries to build a novel. I know this from experience. He has no clear idea of his story; in fact he has no story. He merely has some people in his mind, and an inci...
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...
Helen devises plans to become a monster herself.
would you like to dance in the rain?
No one is born beneath this dance. This dance gives birth to you.
We're assigned to children who are doomed.
That woman must have been a husky in a previous life.
The only man she ever loved. And hated.
