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I love fairy tales.

I loved fairy tales growing up.

Gifts fall from heaven only in fairy tales.

I'm not writing fairy tales or object lessons.

I was a Nancy Drew girl. Also Grimms' fairy tales.

Fairy tales are really violent, the original ones.

I'll be left writing picture books and fairy tales.

I don't know what to think about magic and fairy tales.

If you read Grimm's fairy tales, they're absolutely terrifying.

I loved fairy tales as a kid, so that's where my mind gravitates.

All the ancient classic fairy tales have always been scary and dark.

Well, Company of Wolves was about that literally, about fairy tales.

People don't like the true and simple; they like fairy tales and humbug.

If you look at children's stories in fairy tales, they're pretty brutal.

I found a lot of fairy tales scary. They really didn't sit well with me.

Dragons and bridges are very much something out of fairy tales and fantasy.

If you want to tell grown-up fairy tales, you have to look for the dark side.

I grew up with a lot of fairy tales. And they had an essence of darkness to them.

I like being scared, so I've always liked fairy tales because they're kind of creepy.

Fairy tales and folk tales are part of the DNA of all stories and great fun to write.

It is my childhood dream to have a Christian-style wedding, just like the fairy tales.

I love fairy tales because I think that behind fairy tales, there is always a meaning.

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

Look at Jane Austen. Her characters derive in a reasonably straight line from fairy tales.

I had to grow up fast because we know it's not all fairy tales out there; it's full of rubbish.

On that other novels followed: but I still wrote fairy tales and dreamy poems of another world.

I acquired a hunger for fairy tales in the dark days of blackout and blitz in the second world war.

Fairy tales are stories of triumph and transformation and true love, all things I fervently believe in.

Fairy tales read before bed tend to make me dream. They're all quite violent stories, as are my dreams.

I'm a great believer in fairy tales. I think it is important to have something you can lose yourself in.

All of my work is influenced by fairy tales, and I hope my work shows Hans Christian Anderson's influence.

I never grew up reading or fantasizing about fairy tales. I was always too busy, like, outside being a kid.

I began to believe the fairy tales: You know, how we're all out there looking for our magical missing half.

Fairy tales, which teach a moral lesson, are about ourselves. Myth deals with forces greater than ourselves.

Soils and national characters differ, but fairy tales are the same in plot and incidents, if not in treatment.

In fairy tales, the children are saved by caring adults. We need more caring adults in the lives of our children.

Conservatives used to believe in confronting hard truths, not succumbing to comforting fairy tales. Some still do.

Fairy tales to me are never happy, sweet stories. They're moral stories about overcoming the dark side and the bad.

When fairy tales are written in the west, they're known as folklore. In the east, fairy tales are called religions.

I always wanted to be on 'Sesame Street,' that kind of a thing, puppets and fun and original songs and fairy tales.

Indexing' is a police procedural about protecting the world from memetic incursions - which is to say, fairy tales.

I think, reading the Grimm's fairy tales, they all have some sort of moral component to them, teaching you a lesson.

I was born and raised in Ohio. During my childhood, I spent most of my time drawing and reading fairy tales and myths.

I have always been fascinated by the supernatural elements in stories, whether fairy tales, myths, film or literature.

We may have forgotten how to feel. Nobody is teaching us how to live happily ever after, as we've heard in fairy tales.

Maybe even at six or seven, I knew that, sweet as they were on the surface, all fairy tales needed a feminist shake up.

Happiness is like those palaces in fairy tales whose gates are guarded by dragons: we must fight in order to conquer it.

In fairy tales the bad guy is very easy to spot. The bad guy is always wearing a black cape so you always know who he is.

Like you see in the fairy tales, that's how it planned out in my head. Kids, little white picket fence, the American dream.

I never saw fairy tales as an escape or a cop-out... On the contrary, speaking for myself, it is the way to understand reality.

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