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Maybe it's a tired tale, but without an education, you're not going to go anywhere.
Fairy tales only happen in movies." -George Melies from The Invention of Hugo Cabret
I got into the genesis of Star Wars, and the tale seemed to me endlessly fascinating.
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.
I became a writer, a teller of tales, because otherwise I would have died... or worse.
Is there anything more tedious than the often repeated tales of the old and forgetful?
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.
Folk tales, which are usually written for children, become a bigger lesson for adults.
I can tell you all kinds of moral tales, but fashion and reality are vaguely different.
The square is your friend. Behind every missed lay-up is a tale of the square neglected.
He who always prefaces his tale with laughter, is poised between impertinence and folly.
What they don't know is that I went over the edge years ago, and lived to tell the tale.
Fairy tales and folk tales have always played a role in my writing in one way or another.
I love all that stuff like 'Tales From The Crypt,' 'Twlight Zone,' and 'Amazing Stories.'
Look at Jane Austen. Her characters derive in a reasonably straight line from fairy tales.
For pines are gossip pines the wide world through And full of runic tales to sigh or sing.
Whether histories have a happy ending or not depends on when the chronicler ends the tale.
Fairly tales are myths, and myths are only myths because there's a grain of truth in them.
You stand beneath the arthritic boughs of any English oak, and you survey a thousand tales.
For my teachers, unfortunately, certain things were, as they are for you, only tales of power
If history is deprived of the Truth, we are left with nothing but an idle, unprofitable tale.
I am thrilled to get the chance to write comics - and to tell Forgotten Realms tales, to boot!
A good tale evil told were better untold, and an evil take well told need none other solicitor.
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.
Whether this tale be true or false, none can tell, for none were there to witness it themselves.
I was a great reader of fairy tales. I tried to read the entire fairy tale section of the library.
It's not just dead men who tell no tales. Live ones don't have much to say for themselves, either.
I acquired a hunger for fairy tales in the dark days of blackout and blitz in the second world war.
Though the Grimms kept about 100 of the tales from the first edition, they changed them a good deal.
The teller of a mirthful tale has latitude allowed him. We are content with less than absolute truth.
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.
Fairy Tales always have a happy ending.' That depends... on whether you are Rumpelstiltskin or the Queen.
All of my work is influenced by fairy tales, and I hope my work shows Hans Christian Anderson's influence.
Edinburgh is an experience A city of enormous gifts Whose streets sing of history Whose cobbles tell tales.
I never grew up reading or fantasizing about fairy tales. I was always too busy, like, outside being a kid.
The biggest awakening is the awakening from the childish deceptions and the invented tales of the religion.
I began to believe the fairy tales: You know, how we're all out there looking for our magical missing half.
Most songs that aren't jump-rope songs, or lullabies, are cautionary tales or goodbye songs and road songs.
I like the fact that kids are willing to be imaginative and go along with me when I'm telling strange tales.
Fairy tales, which teach a moral lesson, are about ourselves. Myth deals with forces greater than ourselves.
Who better than an Irishman can understand the Indians, while still being stirred by tales of the US cavalry?
You perceive, do you not, that our national fairy tales reflect the inmost desires of the Briton and the Gaul?
Soils and national characters differ, but fairy tales are the same in plot and incidents, if not in treatment.
My father was full of tales. He said his family were ministers in the Church of Scotland, or they were lawyers.
I used to tell strange, wild, improbable tales akin to ghost stories, and discovered a taste for spinning yarns.