Fairy Tales Quotes

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

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

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

My mother might find a thin gold chain at the back of a drawer, wadded into an impossibly tight knot, and give it to me to untangle. It would have a shiny, sweaty smell, and excite me: Gold chains linked you to the great fairy tales and myths, to Arabia, and India; to the great weight of the world, but lighter than a feather.

I was raised on the brothers Grimm, but my favorite fairy tales in the world are Oscar Wilde's - 'The Nightingale and the Rose,' 'The Selfish Giant.' The latter is probably my all-time favorite.