John Burnside Quotes

The words 'fairy tales' must accordingly be taken to include tales in which occurs something 'fairy,' something extraordinary - fairies, giants, dwarfs, speaking animals.

People tend to associate fairies with princesses, but they couldn't be more different. Princesses have dynastic and domestic pressures, and they get parked on glass hills. Fairies don't have families. They don't clean or cook. They sip nectar from flowers and dance by the light of the moon.

Dragons and bridges are very much something out of fairy tales and fantasy.

You can get this feeling of the English or Scottish or Irish or Welsh fairy, but it is by nature very elusive. It would be possible to pin down a German fairy, but the English one just vanishes, becomes the shadow under the trees.

I don't know what to think about magic and fairy tales.

I love the stories of changelings and the thought that the Fey were these ancient, capricious creatures who were tricky and dangerous. I've always preferred the Brothers Grimm faery tales to the Disney fairy tales.

Anything that has a dragon, a wand, pixie dust, fairies, magic, any of that, I love it. I'm obsessed with it, I will read it, I will watch it, I will commit it to memory.

Fairy tales are stories of triumph and transformation and true love, all things I fervently believe in.

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

I don't really like fairies.

Fairy-tales are nice.

Faeries are associated with wild untamed nature, with art, and with death - so the folklore is rich with different stories to explore.

When you hear the words 'magic' and 'story', they will probably evoke thoughts of your favourite fairy tales from childhood. Storybook pages abound with all manner of magic: fantastical fairies, wish-granting genies, or even a certain boy wizard.

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

I have always been fascinated by the supernatural elements in stories, whether fairy tales, myths, film or literature.

I think every little girl is fascinated with mermaids.

I've always loved fantasy books. Even just growing up, I've always kind of loved magic and fantasy.

If it involved giants on any level, as a kid I was really wrapped up in that.

I believe in elves and giants. I believe that fairy tales are nothing more than news reports of what once happened.

Magic is at the core of myths.

This is a work of fiction. All the characters in it, human and otherwise, are imaginary, excepting only certain of the fairy folk, whom it might be unwise to offend by casting doubts on their existence. Or lack thereof.

I don't want to talk about genies in bottles anymore.

I love fantasy. I grew up reading fantasy.

Our literary culture is marinated in deep traditions of the fantastic and the supernatural, and we export those rich qualities in films and books on a spectacular industrial scale.