Lloyd Alexander Quotes

All of my work is influenced by fairy tales, and I hope my work shows Hans Christian Anderson's influence.

In kindergarten that used to be my job, to tell them fairytales. I liked Hans Christian Andersen, and the Grimm fairy tales, all the classic fairy tales.

When I was little, I made up my own fairy tales, and the ghostly echo of 'Once upon a time' shapes all the fiction I've ever written.

I grew up with a lot of fairy tales. And they had an essence of darkness to them.

I loved fairy tales as a kid, so that's where my mind gravitates.

Folklore, legends, myths and fairy tales have followed childhood through the ages, for every healthy youngster has a wholesome and instinctive love for stories fantastic, marvelous and manifestly unreal. The winged fairies of Grimm and Andersen have brought more happiness to childish hearts than all other human creations.

I love fantasy. I grew up reading fantasy.

I'm fascinated with the stories that we tell. Real histories become fantasies and fairy tales, morality tales and fables. There's something interesting and funny and perverse about the way fairytale sometimes passes for history, for truth.

I was a great reader of fairy tales. I tried to read the entire fairy tale section of the library.

Fairy tales and folk tales have always played a role in my writing in one way or another.

I'll be left writing picture books and fairy tales.

Fairy-tales are nice.

Generally speaking, it has been my ambition to write as a good old nurse will speak when she tells fairy tales.

I've loved fairytales, folklore and mythology since I was a small child, and I think it was inevitable that they would influence my style and my development of stories.

I think people should read fairy tales, because we're hungry for a mythology that will speak to our fears.

I was brought up, as a lot of kids are, on 'Aesop's Fables,' 'Brothers Grimm,' 'La Fontaine,' all those sorts of things. Hans Christian Andersen is a hero of mine.

I feel like my imagination was crafted by Tolkien. He seemed to tap into that childhood intrigue of secret doors and hidden worlds.

I've always been a huge fantasy fan. I was always interested in fairy tales and anything with magic or dragons... I was always drawn to those types of stories.

There have been a number of us working very, very hard to bring myth and fairy tales into public consciousness, through fantasy literature and other media. I hope we're succeeding in some small way.

Fairy tales were great because they provided a no-limits playground for my imagination, and growing up, there's nothing more exciting.

I'm a great believer in fairy tales. I think it is important to have something you can lose yourself in.

I look at all of world mythology and folklore as my toy to play with. There are just so many characters and creatures there I want to put on paper. It's a really exciting thing for me to take material that I really love and put a new coat of paint on it and present it to this audience. And I don't have to make up any of the characters. I can just pull a book of mythology off the shelf and say, "I'll use this guy." I also hate making up names for fantasy characters. I'll just flip through these books and say, "Wow, this is way crazier than anything I could make up".

Fairy tales have always got to have something a bit scary for children - as long as you make them laugh as well.

All great novels are great fairy tales.

It is good for children to find themselves facing the elements of a fairy tale - they are well-equipped to deal with these