Gloria Vanderbilt Quotes

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

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

No matter what you write, you actually can't help retelling a fairy tale somewhere along the way.

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

I like that 'once upon a time' quality, where the telling of a tale has an elevated sense of story. There's a whimsical quality to it. Sometimes in fairy tales more things seem possible, even though often they're real world based.

All cartoon characters and fables must be exaggeration, caricatures. It is the very nature of fantasy and fable.

One thing that's a lot harder to put into stories than you'd think is the idea of a traditional monster, because monsters with a capital 'M' don't inherently lend themselves to a story about your character. Unless one of your characters is themselves the monster, simply having a monster leads to a chase or a hunt.

I thought unicorns were more . . . Fluffy.

When fairy tales are written in the west, they're known as folklore. In the east, fairy tales are called religions.

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.

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 wrote 'The Good Fairies of New York,' I wasn't really imagining that there were fairies. Not in the way that I'm really imagining there are werewolves.

I always felt and still feel that fairy tales have an emotional truth that is so deep that there are few things that really rival them.

I love monsters.

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.

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

I do love mythology.

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.

Elves are cool, man.