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I'm an interpreter of stories. When I perform it's like sitting down at my piano and telling fairy stories. — Nat King Cole

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

Small wonder that spell means both a story told, and a formula of power over living men. -On Fairy Stories — J.R.R. Tolkien

She's as old as the hills, evil as a snake, all malevolence and magic and death. — Neil Gaiman

Only thin, weak thinkers despise fairy stories. Each one has a true, strange fact hidden in it, you know, which you can find if you look. — Diana Wynne Jones

I was born an only child in Vienna, Austria. My father found hours to sit by me by the library fire and tell fairy stories. — Hedy Lamarr

Fairy tales are such evil little stories for young children. — Cecelia Ahern

I think you're a fairy tale. I think you're magical, and brave, and exquisite. And I hope you'll let me be in your story. — Laini Taylor

historically fairy tales were women's stories, passed orally in a time when women didn't have many rights. — Nora Roberts

They weren't true stories; they were better than that. — Alice Hoffman

Nothing is sadder than a child burdened by reality, after all. Those stories were our family fairy tales. — Veronica Montes

Once upon a time,
is how stories begin... — N'Zuri Za Austin

Everything that ever happened is just stories now, Earl. But it was all very real to people while it was happening. Wasn't it? — Terry Moore

So maybe it wasn't the fairy tale. But those stories weren't real anyway. Mine were. — Sarah Dessen

Every fairy tale had a bloody lining. Every one had teeth and claws. — Alice Hoffman

Away with them, away; we should not believe fairy stories if we wish to be good. Think of them as persons from the fairy wood. — Stevie Smith

A child's best friend is often the one telling bedtime stories. — Eraldo Banovac

Every kid loves fairy tales, stories of witches and giants and magicians. Then, when you get a little older you can't read fairy tales anymore. — Stan Lee

All experiences are stories to be told and must be written. — Lailah Gifty Akita

Surely she knows
like I do
that fairy tales are just stories. That happy endings aren't real. — Jodi Picoult

You don't need princes to save you. I don't have a lot of patience for stories in which women are rescued by men. — Neil Gaiman

Fairy tales are more than true ... — Gilbert K. Chesterton

You can do more with a castle in a story than with the best cardboard castle that ever stood on a nursery table. — C.S. Lewis

Our tree became the talking tree of the fairy tale; legends and stories nestled like birds in its branches. — Willa Cather

I like stories where women save themselves. — Neil Gaiman

There are fairy stories to be written for adults. Stories that are still in a green state. — Andre Breton

We're all just big kids. That's all we are. We are artistes. We grew up wanting to be part of the fantasy of the fairy tales and the stories. — Angelina Jolie

People gave names to things so they could tell stories about them, goddam fairy tales about children who got out alive. — Sam Lipsyte

Atheism is a fairy story for people afraid of the Light — John Lennox

There are no fairy tales in the wild, no Cinderella stories. The lowly wolf that seems to rise to the top of the pack was really the alpha all along — Jodi Picoult

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

As a child, my mother told me lots of fairy stories, many her own invention. She, too, tended to reverse the norm. — Tanith Lee

I have always loved fairy tales, even now at the age when I am supposed to be too grown up and cynical for them. — Claire Wong

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

My dream was to eventually make movies. To be part of the fairy tales, stories and novels I loved reading so much growing up. — Irena A. Hoffman

In the stories, the old fairy tales, a hero comes. But all my heroes are gone or dead. No one is coming for me. — Victoria Aveyard