Obsessed by a fairy tale, we spend our lives searching for a magic door and a lost kingdom of peace. Votes: 4
Eugene O'NeillFairy roses, fairy rings, turn out sometimes troublesome things. Votes: 3
William Makepeace ThackerayOvernight Success Happens Only in Fairy Tales, Trashy Novels, and Bad Movies. Votes: 3
Ernie J ZelinskiFairy tales only happen in movies." -George Melies from The Invention of Hugo Cabret Votes: 3
Brian SelznickFairy tales dont tell you that dragons are real, but that they can be defeated! Votes: 3
Kate DiCamilloFairy tales and myths are forms of cultural storage for the natural history of life. Votes: 3
William Irwin ThompsonFairy tales are experienced by their hearers and readers, not as realistic, but as symbolic poetry. Votes: 3
Max LuthiFairy tales and folk tales have always played a role in my writing in one way or another. Votes: 3
Linn UllmannFairy tales lie just as much as statistics do, but sometimes you can find a grain of truth in them. Votes: 3
Sergei LukyanenkoIf you want to tell grown-up fairy tales, you have to look for the dark side. Votes: 2
Juan Antonio BayonaMaybe my fairy tale has a different ending than I dreamed it would. But that's OK. Votes: 2
Kim KardashianIf I'm honest I have to tell you I still read fairy-tales and I like them best of all. Votes: 2
Audrey HepburnI was a great reader of fairy tales. I tried to read the entire fairy tale section of the library. Votes: 2
Beverly ClearyAmerican cinema is international like the fairy tales were international. Votes: 0
Bertrand TavernierRemember: There's a reason the fairy godmother gave Cinderella two glass slippers. Votes: 0
Michael CallahanThe fairy tale always takes place in worlds that are between, unidentifiable. Votes: 0
Nicolas Winding RefnWe were innocent victims. (Angelia) Yeah, and I'm the tooth fairy. (Bride) Votes: 0
Sherrilyn KenyonGive Mozart a fairy tale and he creates without effort an immortal masterpiece. Votes: 0
Camille Saint-SaensJack Vance's Lyonesse books are the greatest fairy tale of the twentieth century. Votes: 0
Jack VanceSome fairy tales end with the girl marrying the prince... some start there. Votes: 0
Diane von FurstenbergLove is a reality which is born in the fairy region of romance. Votes: 0
Charles Maurice de TalleyrandShe learned her hands in a fairy-tale, And her mouth on a valentine. Votes: 0
Edna St. Vincent MillayPeople don't like the true and simple; they like fairy tales and humbug. Votes: 0
Edmond de GoncourtMaybe she was being so hoity-toity because she didn't have her own fairy godmother. Votes: 0
Charlaine HarrisTo fairy flutes, As the light advances, In square black boots The cabman dances. Votes: 0
J. B. MortonA peace agreement isn't like a fairy story. You don't live happily ever after. Votes: 0
Jonathan PowellThese are characters in a fairy tale for grown-ups. Wouldn't it be lovely? Yes. Votes: 0
Diane ArbusThe dances ended, all the fairy train For pinks and daisies search'd the flow'ry plain. Votes: 0
Alexander PopeLook at Jane Austen. Her characters derive in a reasonably straight line from fairy tales. Votes: 0
Andrew DaviesThere is no social-change fairy. There is only change made by the hands of individuals. Votes: 0
Winona LaDukeActually everybody has a story, a fairy tale in their heart that they adhere to. Votes: 0
Phoebe StoneSo maybe it wasn't the fairy tale. But those stories weren't real anyway. Mine were. Votes: 0
Sarah DessenYouâre just jealous of me because Iâm a tap-dancing ballerina fairy princess veterinarian! Votes: 0
Daniel HandlerI'm fairy godmothering a girl who sounds like something you put up in the rain. Votes: 0
Terry PratchettWe no longer believe in fairy tales. But we will learn to believe in monsters Votes: 0
Francesca Lia BlockI like being scared, so I've always liked fairy tales because they're kind of creepy. Votes: 0
Lana ParrillaYesterday's fairy tale is today's fact. The magician is only one step ahead of his audience. Votes: 0
Anne Morrow Lindberghin his fairy dreams of war [Thaddeus] always made conquest the sure end of his battles ... Votes: 0
Jane PorterYule"Yul log for the Christmas-fire tale-spinner"of fairy tales that can come true: Yul Brynner. Votes: 0
Marianne MooreGood luck befriend thee, Son; for at thy birth The fairy ladies danced upon the hearth. Votes: 0
John MiltonI always wanted the fairy tale, but now I want someone who is a great partner. Votes: 0
Elisabeth RohmSleepy Hollow had a lot of action in it, even though it was a fairy-tale movie. Votes: 0
Colleen AtwoodWe cling to our fairy tales until the price for believing in them becomes too high. Votes: 0
Ransom RiggsTwo forces create eternity â a fairy tale and a dream from the fairy tale. Votes: 0
Dejan StojanovicGod defend me from that Welsh fairy, Lest he transform me to a piece of cheese! Votes: 0
William ShakespeareThe naive was only a part of my fairy tales; humor was the real salt in them. Votes: 0
Hans Christian AndersenNo matter what you write, you actually can't help retelling a fairy tale somewhere along the way. Votes: 0
Catherynne M. ValenteOn that other novels followed: but I still wrote fairy tales and dreamy poems of another world." Votes: 0
Laurence HousmanIf you call me a new-age, airy-fairy, hippie-dippy airhead I will shove my crystals up your ass. Votes: 0
Tori AmosIt's almost a sort of fairy story tale, just what a novelist would write about a discovery. Votes: 0
Charles Hard TownesBecause I am still a little girl who believes in Santa and the tooth fairy and you. Votes: 0
Laurie Halse AndersonThere are fairy stories to be written for adults. Stories that are still in a green state. Votes: 0
Andre BretonI believe in the truth of fairy-tales more than I believe in the truth in the newspaper. Votes: 0
Lotte ReinigerI never quite understood why Disney hadn't made a sincere fairy tale since 'Beauty and the Beast.' Votes: 0
John LasseterIt's like the drag fairy coming and saying 'What would you like to do?' Um, yeah karate. Votes: 0
Gerard WayI want to have the fairy-tale life with a wife and three or four kids. It will come. Votes: 0
Cris JuddThe loveliest fairy in the world; and her name is Mrs Do as you would bed one by. Votes: 0
Charles KingsleyStep to this and get shanked up I knocked out so many teeth the tooth fairy went bankrupt Votes: 0
Big LI grew up with a lot of fairy tales. And they had an essence of darkness to them. Votes: 0
Rupert SandersThere is not a single homely thing that, looked at from a certain angle, does not become fairy. Votes: 0
Hope MirrleesWith their hands clasped like children in a fairy tale, she fell asleep beside him in the dark. Votes: 0
Cassandra ClareEvery time a child says I don't believe in fairies there is a fairy somewhere that falls down dead. Votes: 0
James M. BarrieEverything you look at can become a fairy tale and you can get a story from everything you touch. Votes: 0
Hans Christian AndersenDrugs are not the way to the light. They won't lead to a fairy-tale life, they lead to suffering. Votes: 0
Layne StaleyOnce you step onto the fairy path, it's almost like there's no way off. You have to keep going. Votes: 0
Brian FroudWe often see a temper of the times connection, and it's just like a fairy tale. It's not true. Votes: 0
Cass SunsteinIn terms of a character, I would love to play a fairy. I think that would be really fun. Votes: 0
Fiona GubelmannI acquired a hunger for fairy tales in the dark days of blackout and blitz in the Second World War. Votes: 0
A. S. ByattAs cynical as I can be, there's always a part of me that believes in love and the fairy tale. Votes: 0
Lily JamesIt was not a happy ending of the sort in fairy tales, but it was the only one we had. Votes: 0
Megan HartAt every moment of our lives, we all have one foot in a fairy tale and the other in the abyss. Votes: 0
Paulo CoelhoI want to be the best mum and I want everything to be perfect - I want a fairy tale really. Votes: 0
Jennifer EllisonA fairy tale is the kind of story in which one king goes to another king to borrow a cup of sugar Votes: 0
Angela CarterMany people think fairy tales and retellings of fairy tales are only for children, but I'm not the only writer to take an old tale and retell it for a sophisticated adult audience. Votes: 1 Kate Forsyth
We no longer believe in fairy tales. But we will learn to believe in monsters Votes: 4 Francesca Lia Block
THE REASON I CAN BE 38 AND HAVE TWO KIDS AND WEAR A BIKINI IS BECAUSE I WORK MY ASS OFF. IT'S NOT AN ACCIDENT. IT'S NOT LUCK, IT'S NOT FAIRY DUST, IT'S NOT GOOD GENES. IT'S KILLING MYSELF FOR AN HOUR AND A HALF FIVE DAYS A WEEK, BUT WHAT I GET OUT OF IT IS RELATIVE TO WHAT I PUT INTO IT. Votes: 2 Gwyneth Paltrow
If you see the magic in a fairy tale, you can face the future. Votes: 4 Danielle Steel
I'll be left writing picture books and fairy tales. Votes: 1 Carol Ann Duffy
All those "and they lived happily ever after" fairy tale endings need to be changed to "and they began the very hard work of making their marriages happy." Votes: 2 Linda Miles
I've had a fairy tale life. I had a perfect family, a beautiful childhood, an incredible upbringing. I lived a lot of life but a lot of good life. Votes: 3 John Stamos
My parents read me fairy tales every night and I used to believe I was a fairytale princess, like every young girl. I had all the Disney dressing-up costumes and would play every character. Votes: 1 Lily Collins
I'd imagine my wedding as a fairy tale... huge, beautiful and white. Votes: 1 Paris Hilton
Fairy Tales always have a happy ending.' That depends... on whether you are Rumpelstiltskin or the Queen. Votes: 3 Jane Yolen
I don't feel there's a difference between the real world and the fairy-tale world. They contain psychological truths and, I guess, projections of what the culture that tells them thinks about various things: men, women, aging, dying - the most basic aspects of being human. Votes: 2 Helen Oyeyemi