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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.
The kids from the streets don't want preaching or messages. They want what they can identify with. They want to hear about the reality of their situation, not fairy tales. They don't care if it's ugly; they just want reality.
I believe in elves and giants. I believe that fairy tales are nothing more than news reports of what once happened.
I hate To tell again a tale once fully told.
Having achieved and accomplished love, then the man passes into the unknown. He has become himself, his tale is told.
Of all tales 'tis the saddest--and more sad, Because it makes us smile.
There never was a scandalous tale without some foundation.
Shun an inquisitive man, he is invariably a tell-tale.
I also like the whole idea of fairy tales and folk tales being a woman's domain, considered a lesser domain at the time they were told.
It is not a bad thing in a tale that you understand only half of it.
The truest tales require time and familiarity to become what they are.
Apparently I'm well-known for my stories, my raconteur tales, that sort of thing.
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.
This act is an ancient tale new told; And, in the last repeating, troublesome, Being urged at a time unseasonable.
As a child, I loved fairy tales because the story, the what-comes-next, is paramount. As an adult, I'm fascinated by their logic and illogic.
Other kids' parents wouldn't let them read magazines like 'Weird Tales,' but my folks were big readers themselves, so they didn't mind.
I didn't like fairy tales when I was younger. I found a lot of fairy tales scary. They really didn't sit well with me.
I have no illusions concerning the precarious status of my tales and do not expect to become a serious competitor of my favorite weird authors.
We often see a temper of the times connection, and it's just like a fairy tale. It's not true.
Folk tales are the most authentic way of understanding a region, its legend and people.
Fairy tales are with us day in and day out, not just in commercials, but references in the theater, movies, museums, schools, etc.
Fairytales were never really meant for children; they were meant as cautionary tales for teenagers on the verge of growing up.
The tales of Elfland do not stand or fall on their actuality but on their truthfulness, their speaking to the human condition, the longings we all have for the Faerie Other.
I think people should read fairy tales, because we're hungry for a mythology that will speak to our fears.
Fairy tales cross generational lines, and how you respond to them depends on when in your life you're seeing them.
Generally speaking, it has been my ambition to write as a good old nurse will speak when she tells fairy tales.
From as far back as I can remember, I always loved the King Arthur stories, fairy tales, mythology - things like that. So it was very natural for me when I came to write the 'Prydain' books to sort of follow that direction.
To be honest, Peter Pan was one of those fairy tales that I sort of related to, and I think that's the case with a lot of kids. The whole idea of escapism really resonates with a lot of kids.
It wasn't until I was an adult reader that I began to fathom the influence of fairy tales on writers I was in love with over the years, from Louisa May Alcott to Bernard Malamud to John Cheever to Anne Frank to Joy Williams.
I liked that sort of thing, those one-off stories like 'Tales of the Unexpected,' 'Hammer House of Horror,' 'The Twilight Zone' and 'Alfred Hitchcock Presents.'
I was interested in dark subject matter for sure, including folklore, fairy tales, mythology, archetypal stories of people going into the bowels of the forest.
Ultimately, Lloyd Alexander's tales of Prydain were enough to make me come back and visit again and again, and each time, I laughed and I wept. Each time. No exceptions.
There have been a number of us working very, very hard to bring myth and fairy tales into public consciousness, through fantasy literature and other media. I hope we're succeeding in some small way.
As social animals, we need to exchange juicy tales about someone - to connect with one another. For millions of years our forebears must have sat around the campfire, whispering about everyone they knew.
The wordy tale, once told, were hard to tell again.
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.
'Tales From Topographic Oceans' is like a woman's padded bra. The cover looks good, but when you peel off the padding, there's not a lot there.
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.
All of my tales are based on the fundamental premise that common human laws and emotions have no validity or significance in the cosmos-at-large.
Folk tales are my favourite form of story telling. They not only just adjust the reader according to the world it is introducing the reader to, but also enchant the reader with its mysterious and magical characters.
'Once Upon a Time', 'Mirror Mirror' - those shows and films focus on women and their conflict with one another. What the heck is going on in contemporary fairy tales? Women are not dominating the world; they are not evil.
Once upon a time, I was a little girl sick in the hospital, and my mother gave me a copy of 'Grimm's Fairy Tales' to comfort me.
Up to 1870, it was equally said of France and of Italy that they possessed no folk-tales. Yet, within fifteen years from that date, over 1000 tales had been collected in each country.
It is tedious to tell again tales already plainly told.
They were written on cheap blue notebooks bought by poor women. I'm interested in folk tales in the way that medicine and magic in women's stories are all kind of combined.
Certain of Poe's tales possess an almost absolute perfection of artistic form which makes them veritable beacon-lights in the province of the short story.
Obscure as still remains the origin of that 'genre' of romance to which the tales before us belong, there is little doubt that their models, if not their originals, were once extant at Constantinople.
Why cover the same ground again? ... It goes against my grain to repeat a tale told once, and told so clearly.
I am well-nigh resolv'd to write no more tales but merely to dream when I have a mind to, not stopping to do anything so vulgar as to set down the dream for a boarish Publick.
The reason why time plays a great part in so many of my tales is that this element looms up in my mind as the most profoundly dramatic and grimly terrible thing in the universe.