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Overnight Success Happens Only in Fairy Tales, Trashy Novels, and Bad Movies. -- Ernie J Zelinski
Fairy Tales always have a happy ending.' That depends... on whether you are Rumpelstiltskin or the Queen. -- Jane Yolen
Like a grindhouse version of Grimm's Fairy Tales, Wallwork's fiction is smart, innovative, and a hell of a lot of fun. -- Carlton Mellick III
One of the pleasures of the original 'Grimm's Fairy Tales' is how incredibly ghastly they are. The ugly sisters have their eyes pecked out by crows. -- Mark Gatiss
Even as a kid, I read 'Jung - Reflections and Individuation In Fairy Tales'; all the inner circle of Jung was a real huge thing for me. -- Pamela Anderson
They [Fairy Tales] are talking about real emotions, telling true stories, through the medium of metaphor. People used to understand metaphor better than I think we do now. But these stories are so potent, they refuse to die. -- Jane Yolen
I published my first book in 1982 - a collection of Irish folklore called Irish Folk & Fairy Tales. It is still in print today. My first young adult book was published a couple of years later, and I've been writing in both genres ever since. -- Michael Scott
Sometimes you have to censor books. When I read 'Peter Rabbit,' I skip the part about Peter's father ending up in one of Mrs. McGregor's pies. I also hid the book of 'Grimm Fairy Tales.' They're just too grim for my grandkids. Reality will come soon enough. -- Regina Brett
Gifts fall from heaven only in fairy tales. -- Walter Ulbricht
If you want to tell grown-up fairy tales, you have to look for the dark side. -- Juan Antonio Bayona
Fairy tales are stories of triumph and transformation and true love, all things I fervently believe in. -- Kate Forsyth
I think people should read fairy tales, because we're hungry for a mythology that will speak to our fears. -- Sandra Cisneros
I acquired a hunger for fairy tales in the dark days of blackout and blitz in the Second World War. -- A. S. Byatt
I began to believe the fairy tales: You know, how we're all out there looking for our magical missing half. -- Michael Bergin
When fairy tales are written in the west, they're known as folklore. In the east, fairy tales are called religions. -- Paul Henderson
Happiness is like those palaces in fairy tales whose gates are guarded by dragons: we must fight in order to conquer it. -- Alexandre Dumas
We may have forgotten how to feel. Nobody is teaching us how to live happily ever after, as we've heard in fairy tales. -- Yakov Smirnoff
I always felt and still feel that fairy tales have an emotional truth that is so deep that there are few things that really rival them. -- Alice Hoffman
A scientist in his laboratory is not a mere technician: he is also a child confronting natural phenomena that impress him as though they were fairy tales. -- Marie Curie
The Islamic terror threat is so fierce, unrelenting and barbaric that we tell ourselves fairy tales about how these ruthless acts are anything but what they are: acts of war. -- Monica Crowley
What works about fairy tales is that they endure, and the great thing about fairy tales is that you can explore big, epic things that you can't really explore in other situations. -- Gary Ross
My parents read me fairy tales every night and I used to believe I was a fairytale princess, like every young girl. I had all the Disney dressing-up costumes and would play every character. -- Lily Collins
The universe has a much greater imagination than we do, which is why the real story of the universe is far more interesting than any of the fairy tales we have invented to describe it. -- Lawrence M. Krauss
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I am completely fascinated by the differences and comparisons between real life and fairy tales because we're raised as little girls to think that we're a princess and that Prince Charming is going to sweep us off our feet. -- Taylor Swift
Fairy tales, because they have a very clear structure, are easier to interfere with. Also they have this really weird logic: the kind of logic that you only really experience when you're not feeling very well, or as a child. -- Helen Oyeyemi
I like that 'once upon a time' quality, where the telling of a tale has an elevated sense of story. There's a whimsical quality to it. Sometimes in fairy tales more things seem possible, even though often they're real world based. -- Erin Morgenstern
My relationship with Wilhelm and Jacob Grimm reaches far back into my childhood. I grew up with Grimm's fairy tales. I even saw a theater production of 'Tom Thumb' during Advent at the State Theater in Danzig, which my mother took me to see. -- Gunter Grass
I have never dreamed of being a princess. I have not longed for Prince Charming. I have and do long for something resembling a happily ever after. I am supposed to be above such flights of fantasy, but I am not. I am enamored of fairy tales. -- Roxane Gay
When I wrote the eight fairy tales that appear in 'Horse, Flower, Bird' I was working toward a completely new form of artistic expression, trying to create a new kind of tale that also felt vintage: innocent and childlike, but haunted. I tried to write a picture-less picture book. -- Kate Bernheimer
I am not sure how much good is done by moralising about fairy tales. This can be unsubtle - telling children that virtue will be rewarded, when in fact it is mostly simply the fact of being the central character that ensures a favourable outcome. Fairy tales are not, on the whole, parables. -- A. S. Byatt
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I loved reading Grimm's fairy tales and Hans Christian Andersen, and I loved to dream about other worlds and other lives. Maybe that has something to do with having an incomplete family, being an only child. All I know is I loved to pretend, and all that was in tandem with my wanting to be an actress. -- Lauren Bacall
I want to tell women that you need to love yourself and make yourself a priority. It's only when you are happy yourself, can you make everyone else around you happy. I am still a dreamer and still believe in fairy tales, but there is only that much one should give another person. You need to keep something for yourself. -- Bipasha Basu
Fairy-tales are nice. -- Syd Barrett
Sure, I love fairy tales. -- Maynard James Keenan
Idle man, chases after fairy tales... -- Rumi
Science Fiction: fairy tales for nerds. -- Richard Bayan
I loved fairy tales growing up. -- Lily James
Fairy tales are more than true ... -- Gilbert K. Chesterton
Is life a fantasy or fairy tales~? -- Lailah Gifty Akita
We have been poisoned by fairy tales. -- Anais Nin
Is life a fantasy or fairy tales? -- Lailah Gifty Akita
All great novels are great fairy tales. -- Vladimir Nabokov
Philosophy is the opposite of fairy tales -- Jostein Gaarder
Even nightingales can't be fed on fairy tales. -- Ivan Turgenev
Religions are the great fairy tales of conscience. -- George Santayana
I'm not writing fairy tales or object lessons. -- Junot Diaz
...fairy tales, just a fancy word for lies... -- Cecelia Ahern
The dead have need of fairy tales too. -- Zbigniew Herbert
Remember all fairy tales end at some point. -- Melissa de la Cruz
Once upon a time, fairy tales were AWESOME! -- Adam Gidwitz
But wishes are only granted in fairy tales. -- Simone Elkeles
Novels are to love as fairy tales to dreams. -- Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Comic books to me are fairy tales for grown-ups. -- Stan Lee
I'll be left writing picture books and fairy tales -- Carol Ann Duffy
I'll be left writing picture books and fairy tales. -- Carol Ann Duffy
Screw fairy tales. My life was way more interesting. -- Rebecca Chastain
American cinema is international like the fairy tales were international. -- Bertrand Tavernier
Spring blossoms are fairy tales, autumn leaves are tragic dramas. -- Mehmet Murat ildan
American cinema is international like the fairy tales were international -- Bernard Tavernier
I want to talk about political and economic fairy tales. -- Ronald Reagan
I love fairy tales and feel very affected by them. -- Alice Hoffman
It is not children only that one feeds with fairy tales. -- Gotthold Ephraim Lessing
Well, Company of Wolves was about that literally, about fairy tales. -- Neil Jordan
I don't know what to think about magic and fairy tales. -- Richard Dawkins
If you look at children's stories in fairy tales, they're pretty brutal. -- Susanne Bier
All the ancient classic fairy tales have always been scary and dark. -- Helena Bonham Carter
Dragons and bridges are very much something out of fairy tales and fantasy. -- John Howe
Armchair warriors often fail - and we've been poisoned by these fairy tales -- Don Henley
Some fairy tales end with the girl marrying the prince... some start there. -- Diane von Furstenberg
People don't like the true and simple; they like fairy tales and humbug. -- Edmond de Goncourt
Some day you will be old enough to start reading fairy tales again. -- C. S. Lewis
I loved fairy tales as a kid, so that's where my mind gravitates. -- Gail Carson Levine
I don't believe in fairy tales, but I believe in you and me -- Natalia Kills
I have to believe in fairy tales and I have to believe in love. -- Taylor Swift
Fairy tales only happen in movies." -George Melies from The Invention of Hugo Cabret -- Brian Selznick
Look at Jane Austen. Her characters derive in a reasonably straight line from fairy tales. -- Andrew Davies
We no longer believe in fairy tales. But we will learn to believe in monsters -- Francesca Lia Block
Fairy tales dont tell you that dragons are real, but that they can be defeated! -- Kate DiCamillo
Fairy tales and myths are forms of cultural storage for the natural history of life. -- William Irwin Thompson
I like being scared, so I've always liked fairy tales because they're kind of creepy. -- Lana Parrilla
It's all a quilt of fairy tales with a patch here and there of truth. -- Laini Taylor
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Fairy tales are experienced by their hearers and readers, not as realistic, but as symbolic poetry. -- Max Luthi
We cling to our fairy tales until the price for believing in them becomes too high. -- Ransom Riggs
On that other novels followed: but I still wrote fairy tales and dreamy poems of another world." -- Laurence Housman
Conservatives used to believe in confronting hard truths, not succumbing to comforting fairy tales. Some still do. -- Fareed Zakaria
The naive was only a part of my fairy tales; humor was the real salt in them. -- Hans Christian Andersen
I believe in the truth of fairy-tales more than I believe in the truth in the newspaper. -- Lotte Reiniger
Fairy tales and folk tales have always played a role in my writing in one way or another. -- Linn Ullmann
I have always been fascinated by the supernatural elements in stories, whether fairy tales, myths, film or literature. -- Trudi Canavan
I grew up with a lot of fairy tales. And they had an essence of darkness to them. -- Rupert Sanders
Butterflies and zebras And moonbeams and fairy tales That's all she ever thinks about Riding with the wind. -- Jimi Hendrix
So there are different examples of fairy tales, and sometimes I believe in them and sometimes I don't. -- Taylor Swift
Classic fairy tales do not deny the existence of heartache and sorrow, but they do deny universal defeat. -- Greenhaven
The whole world had changed. Only the fairy tales remained the same. "And they lived happily ever after, -- Lois Lowry
I think dreams can come true, but not necessarily like fairy-tales. It's not always so perfect like that. -- Patrick Dempsey
Once I learned, I went online and ordered every romance novel I could find. They're fairy tales for grown-ups. -- Gena Showalter
Soils and national characters differ, but fairy tales are the same in plot and incidents, if not in treatment. -- Joseph Jacobs
Fairy tales have a hidden power, and their appeal never ends. They're the best way to get messages across. -- Michel Ocelot
All of my work is influenced by fairy tales, and I hope my work shows Hans Christian Anderson's influence. -- Sandra Cisneros
I think people should read fairy tales, because were hungry for a mythology that will speak to our fears. -- Sandra Cisneros
Fairy tales read before bed tend to make me dream. They're all quite violent stories, as are my dreams. -- Glen Duncan
If I'm honest I have to tell you I still read fairy-tales and I like them best of all. -- Audrey Hepburn
A child gets moral notions from the fairy-tales he delights in, as do his elders from tale and verse. -- Charlotte Mason
Fairy tales lie just as much as statistics do, but sometimes you can find a grain of truth in them. -- Sergei Lukyanenko
Fairy tales to me are never happy, sweet stories. They're moral stories about overcoming the dark side and the bad. -- Joe Wright
You perceive, do you not, that our national fairy tales reflect the inmost desires of the Briton and the Gaul? -- Rudyard Kipling
I was a great reader of fairy tales. I tried to read the entire fairy tale section of the library. -- Beverly Cleary
I never grew up reading or fantasizing about fairy tales. I was always too busy, like, outside being a kid. -- Armie Hammer
It was not a happy ending of the sort in fairy tales, but it was the only one we had. -- Megan Hart
Like a magpie, I am a scavenger of shiny things: fairy tales, dead languages, weird folk beliefs, fascinating religions, and more. -- Laini Taylor
None of [the books are] worth reading. There are no fairy tales, no faerie tails, no sword-swinging princesses or lightning-throwing gods. -- Laurie Halse Anderson
Fairy tales make rivers run with wine only to make us remember, for one wild moment, that they run with water. -- G.K. Chesterton
I think, reading the Grimm's fairy tales, they all have some sort of moral component to them, teaching you a lesson. -- Claire Coffee
Generally speaking, it has been my ambition to write as a good old nurse will speak when she tells fairy tales. -- Joseph Jacobs
People tend to think of fairy tales as archetypal. They are also extremely sensual, something which translates well over the ages. -- Kate Bernheimer
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[Fairy tales] make rivers run with wine only to make us remember, for one wild moment, that they run with water. -- Gilbert K. Chesterton

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