Alice Hoffman Quotes About Fairy Tales

Quotes about: Fairy Tales

• Do people choose the art that inspires them — do they think it over, decide they might prefer the fabulous to the real? For me, it was those early readings of fairy tales that made me who I was as a reader and, later on, as a storyteller.

  Alice Hoffman

  Art, Real, Reading

• Every fairy tale had a bloody lining. Every one had teeth and claws.

  Alice Hoffman

  Writing, Teeth, Fairy Tale

• 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

  Alice Hoffman

  Emotional, Rivals, Fairy Tale

• The original fairy tale was about the youngest sister going into a room in the castle and finding all the bodies of the wives that came before her - she is confronted with truth, thinking about how often we think we know people and we really don't.

  Alice Hoffman

  Thinking, People, Wife

• [Fairy tales] are like a journey to the woods and the many ways you can get lost. Some people say it's not a good idea to read fairy tales to anyone under the age of eight because they are brutal and raw. When I was a kid I often felt that kids's books were speaking down to me, but I never felt that way about fairy tales. They are bloody and scary, but so is life.

  Alice Hoffman

  Book, Kids, Journey

  Source: www.bostonglobe.com

• 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.

  Alice Hoffman

  Ideas, Fairy Tale, Being A Woman

• I love fairy tales and feel very affected by them.

  Alice Hoffman

  Fairy Tale, Tales, Feels

  Source: www.bostonglobe.com

• What I like about fairy tales is the language and the matter-of-fact way of introducing magic, where it's accepted that a fox could talk or a gate could just appear in a wall. I think fairy tales are so psychological.

  Alice Hoffman

  Wall, Thinking, Magic

  Source: www.bostonglobe.com

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