Fairy Quotes - Page 28

• 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.

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• When you just get fantasy stories that are about fairies or goblins, I just don't care. I'm never going to meet a goblin, it doesn't mean anything to me. So my definition of fantasy is very broad, it's anything to do with memory, or dreams, or ways of interpreting or making sense of the world.

  Dave McKean

  Dream, Memories, Mean

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• You actually do confront your dark side, your impulses, or your feelings of sibling rivalry in Cinderella or whatever. You admit that they exist and then you work through them and conquer them and come out living happily ever after having learned something. That's one reason why the fairy tales keep having traction and meaning.

  Catherine Hardwicke

  Sibling, Dark, Feelings

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• Edward Said talks about Orientalism in very negative terms because it reflects the prejudices of the west towards the exotic east. But I was also having fun thinking of Orientalism as a genre like Cowboys and Indians is a genre – they’re not an accurate representation of the American west, they’re like a fairy tale genre.

  Craig Thompson

  Fun, Thinking, Cowboy

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• Again, if there are really no fairies, why do people believe in them, all over the world? The ancient Greeks believed, so did the old Egyptians, and the Hindoos, and the Red Indians, and is it likely, if there are no fairies, that so many different peoples would have seen and heard them?

  Andrew Lang

  Believe, People, Greek

  Andrew Lang (2015). “The Yellow Fairy Book”, p.4, Booklassic

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• As well might you leave the fairies to plough your land or the idle winds to sow it, as sit down and wait for freedom.

  Thomas Davis

  Wind, Land, Waiting

  Thomas Osborne Davis (1920*). “Thomas Davis: Selections from His Prose and Poetry”

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• All great novels are great fairy tales.

  Vladimir Nabokov

  Fairy Tale, Tales, Novel

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• We are faced with the task of convincing a myth infatuated world that love and curiosity are sufficient and you don't have to delude yourself and frighten yourself with Iron Age fairy tales. This is a monumental task. I don't think there is an intellectual struggle more worthy of our efforts.

  Sam Harris

  Struggle, Thinking, Iron

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• Fairy tales opened up a door into my imagination - they don't conform to the reality that's around you as a child. I started reading when I was three and read everything, but I wanted to be an actress.

  Kate Atkinson

  Children, Reading, Reality

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

  Andrew Davies

  Character, Looks, Lines

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• I'm romantically inclined. No human being on Earth is not attracted to other people. There is no fairy tale that they only have eyes for you. You just choose to act on it or not.

  Ben Folds

  Eye, People, Earth

  Source: www.billboard.com

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• I was never a girl that dreamt of being a princess and I never dreamt about my wedding day. I hated pink and I hated fairies. I only liked hanging out with boys. I remember throwing a tantrum if my mum put me in pink. I wasn't a particularly girly girl.

  Emily Blunt

  Girl, Princess, Boys

  Interview with Rob Carnevale, www.indielondon.co.uk.

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• Fairy tales are my natural language. I feel at ease telling fairy tales like a fish feels in water. I am totally free.

  Michel Ocelot

  Water, Ease, Fairy Tale

  Source: www.hollywoodreporter.com

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• I like to make people happy, and with fairy tales, I can say anything I want to, but in an agreeable way.

  Michel Ocelot

  People, Say Anything, Want

  Source: www.hollywoodreporter.com

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• Fairy tales have a hidden power, and their appeal never ends. They're the best way to get messages across.

  Michel Ocelot

  Way, Messages, Fairy Tale

  Source: www.hollywoodreporter.com

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• My inspiration is my life, what I see happening around me. It can be history and, quite often, plain traditional fairy tales. But I never adapt; I nourish myself with old stories, and then create my own tales.

  Michel Ocelot

  Inspiration, Stories, Fairy Tale

  Source: www.hollywoodreporter.com

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• If you want to make your children brilliant, tell them fairy tales. If you want to make them more brilliant, tell them more fairy tales.

  Albert Einstein

  Children, Want, Fairy Tale

  Source: digitalseance.wordpress.com

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• The list of things about which we strictly have to be agnostic doesn't stop at tooth fairies and celestial teapots. It is infinite. If you want to believe in a particular one of them - teapots, unicorns, or tooth fairies, Thor or Yahweh - the onus is on you to say why you believe in it. The onus is not on the rest of us to say why we do not. We who are atheists are also a-fairyists, a-teapotists, and a-unicornists, but we don't have to bother saying so.

  Richard Dawkins

  Atheist, Believe, Want

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• My dream was to eventually make movies. To be part of the fairy tales, stories and novels I loved reading so much growing up.

  Irena A. Hoffman

  Dream, Growing Up, Reading

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• I feel any time you enter a dream world it's like you're working out things, it's all inside your mind and you're working it out, be it Dorothy in The Wizard of Oz, or the kids in Narnia, they go through this weird journey that's not real, and they're going through this journey psychologically. It's that journey of discovery, of getting onself together, that fantasy and fairy tales are so good at. And while some people still look upon them as completely unrealistic, for me they're more real than most things that are perceived as real.

  Tim Burton

  Dream, Real, Kids

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• Adults trying to protect children from reality, right? And adults always trying to fill children with fantasy - the tooth fairy, Santa, make-believe games, etc. But kids are really smart, I think they know from an early age about death, this void and hole they are immediately traveling toward.

  Shane Warren Jones

  Children, Smart, Believe

  Source: logger.believermag.com

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• Life isn't a fairy tale, and happy endings are few and far between

  Kristen Bell

  Fairy Tale, Happy Endings, Tales

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• Fairy tales have always been about getting through the worst of everything, the darkest and the deepest and the bloodiest of events. They are about surviving, and what you look like when you emerge from the trial. The reason we keep telling fairy tales over and over, that we need to keep telling them, is that the trials change. So the stories change too, and the heroines and villains and magical objects, to keep them true. Fairy tales are the closets where the world keeps its skeletons.

  Catherynne M. Valente

  Skeletons, Needs, Looks

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• Kelly Link is inimitable. Her stories are like nothing else, dark yet sparkling with her unique brand of fairy dust. This is the most marvelous kind of trouble to get in.

  Erin Morgenstern

  Dark, Unique, Dust

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• I wish somebody had given me the news that ideas don't just fall on your head like fairy dust. You have to treat that like a job. You have to spend hours each day, where you're just like, 'This is the part of the day when I'm looking for an idea.'

  Ira Glass

  Jobs, Fall, Dust

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