Chris Colfer Quotes

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

I love fantasy. I grew up reading fantasy.

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

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

'Star Wars' came out when I was seven. It was so different from anything else, like peeking into the land of Oz. All you wanted to do was see it again and go back and see more of it. That feeling is not easy to reproduce.

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.

As a child, I loved fairy tales because the story, the what-comes-next, is paramount. As an adult, I'm fascinated by their logic and illogic.

I like fantasy.

Fairy-tales are nice.

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.

Fairy tales were important to me. Aren't they for any kid? My sister says I spent a good five years of my youth convinced I would grow up to be a princess.

People tend to think of fairy tales as 'archetypal.' They are also extremely sensual, something which translates well over the ages.

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

Disney has a great tradition of enchanting children and giving them something to behold.

I guess I am running the risk of becoming the Hans Christian Andersen of opera.

I love fairy tales because of their haunting beauty and magical strangeness. They are set in worlds where anything can happen. Frogs can be kings, a thicket of brambles can hide a castle where a royal court has lain asleep for a hundred years, a boy can outwit a giant, and a girl can break a curse with nothing but her courage and steadfastness.

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

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'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.

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

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

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.

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

I love fairy tales.