Stephen King Quotes About Fairy Tales

Quotes about: Fairy Tales

• They were still all beautiful and there was still enchantment and wonder, but she had crossed a line and now the fairy tale was green with corruption and evil.

  Stephen King

  Beautiful, Evil, Enchantment

  Stephen King (2008). “Carrie”, p.103, Anchor

• A lot of fairy tales are thinly disguised hostility raps against parents. Kids know that they can't make it on their own, that if they were left alone, they would die.

  Stephen King

  Rap, Kids, Parent

  Stephen King, Tim Underwood, Chuck Miller (1988). “Bare bones: conversations on terror with Stephen King”, McGraw-Hill Companies

• Kids know they can't make it alone, yet at the same time, built into each one of us, is a survival ethic. It says, "Nobody cares and you have to look out for yourself and if you don't, you'll die." These two things work against each other. I think most kids are very frightened of their parents, and that's what all fairy tales reflect: Parents will fail you and you'll be left on your own. But, of course, everything comes out right in the end and the parents take you back.

  Stephen King

  Kids, Thinking, Two

  High Times Magazine Interview with Martha Thomases, John Robert Tebbel, October 1981.

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