Fairy tales are more than true: not because they tell us that dragons exist, but because they tell us that dragons can be beaten.
It is good for children to find themselves facing the elements of a fairy tale - they are well-equipped to deal with these
He had read books, newspapers and magazines. He knew that if you ran away you sometimes met bad people who did bad things to you; but he had also read fairy tales, so he knew that there were kind people out there, side by side with the monsters.
With 'Stardust', I hope what I was doing is giving 30-year-olds and 40-year-olds and 25-year-olds and 60-year-olds a chance to get the same sense of wonder, the same feeling, the same magic, that they got in reading the classic fairy tales as children.
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