Kate Forsyth Quotes

I listened to a lot of stories when I was a kid. My mother told me stories, and I loved them.

The spark for 'In Praise of Slowness' came when I began reading to my children. Every parent knows that kids like their bedtime stories read at a gentle, meandering pace. But I used to be too fast to slow down with the Brothers Grimm. I would zoom through the classic fairy tales, skipping lines, paragraphs, whole pages.

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.

I was born an only child in Vienna, Austria. My father found hours to sit by me by the library fire and tell fairy stories.

I never grew up reading or fantasizing about fairy tales. I was always too busy, like, outside being a kid.

I love stories. I loved stories when I was a kid. My mom read stories to me all the time.

I have a daughter, and fairies meant a lot to her growing up.

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

I have very vivid memories of my mother reading to us as kids.

I was Mary Poppins for Halloween when I was 3, with lipstick and a carpetbag. And I was Dorothy in 'The Wizard of Oz' in a production in my dad's barn.

As kids, we did see the Disney movies and the kids' adventure stories of the day.

Artless fairy stories enchant us in our first years and retain their hold on us until our last.

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

When I was little, we had a Golden Book that had all these Disney characters in one portrait on the first page. My dad used to read from it every night. We'd play this game of find Pluto or find Donald Duck. He'd read us stories and do all the voices. Those are great memories.

I love fantasy. I grew up reading fantasy.

I was born and raised in Ohio. During my childhood, I spent most of my time drawing and reading fairy tales and myths.

When I was a little girl, I loved theater a lot and I was always playing and making my own worlds.

I don't know if I really watched any Disney animation as a kid.

When I was very little my mother would read to me in bed. She gave me a fascination for stories, and for the music in words.

I was raised on the brothers Grimm, but my favorite fairy tales in the world are Oscar Wilde's - 'The Nightingale and the Rose,' 'The Selfish Giant.' The latter is probably my all-time favorite.

I do what I do because of Walt Disney. Goofy. Mickey Mouse. I never forgot how their films entertained me.

I think storytelling is all about children. We human beings love to hear stories being told - and it first happens when you're a kid.

I grew up in a household without a TV. We lived next door to a library for a while, and at one point, I checked out all the books in the fairy tale section. I remember the librarian's quiet smile as I'd bring back one stack and exchange it for another.

As a kid, I loved any fantasy.

I will always have a soft spot for 'East of the Sun, West of the Moon,' which I discovered just at the age when I was beginning to enjoy the darkness in fairy tales but still wanted a story where the good guys win.