Philip Pullman Quotes About Fairy Tales

Quotes about: Fairy Tales

• Because the great thing about fairy tales and folk tales is that there is no authentic text. It's not like the text of Paradise Lost or James Joyce's Ulysses, and you have to adhere to that exact text.

  Philip Pullman

  Paradise, Fairy Tale, Ulysses

  "His Grimm Materials: A Conversation With Philip Pullman". Interview with Michael Mechanic, www.motherjones.com. November/December 2012.

• The fairy tale is in a perpetual state of becoming and alteration. To keep to one version or one translation alone is to put robin redbreast in a cage.

  Philip Pullman

  Robins, Becoming, Cages

  Philip Pullman (2012). “Grimm Tales: For Young and Old”, p.15, Penguin UK

• I wanted the chance to look again at very famous stories and see what made them work well, whether there were any ways in which they could be improved. Because the great thing about fairy tales and folk tales is that there is no authentic text.

  Philip Pullman

  Looks, Stories, Way

  Source: www.motherjones.com

• Disney is a huge presence when it comes to fairy tales because he’s made of them such brilliant artifacts in terms of movie-making. But it’s very hard to ignore what he’s done to them. I'm not interested in denigrating Disney or even commenting on him very much. I'm more interested in seeing what I can do with the stories myself.

  Philip Pullman

  Stories, Done, Fairy Tale

  "His Grimm Materials: A Conversation With Philip Pullman". Interview with Michael Mechanic, www.motherjones.com. November 2012.

• I wanted to avoid what some modern tellers have done, quite legitimately, to make fairy tales more like novels and short stories, to characterize the heroes and the heroines much more than they are characterized in Grimm. I like the psychological flatness of them, the fact that they're more like masks than individuals.

  Philip Pullman

  Hero, Stories, Done

  Source: www.motherjones.com

• The great thing about fairy tales and folk tales is that there is no authentic text.

  Philip Pullman

  Fairy Tale, Fairy, Great Things

  Source: www.motherjones.com

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