James Russell Lowell Quotes

I am your fairy tale. Your dream. Your wishes and desires, and I am your thirst and your hunger and your food and your drink.

When the boys come into my yard for leave to gather horse-chestnuts, I own I enter into nature's game, and affect to grant the permission reluctantly, fearing that any moment they will find out the imposture of that showy chaff. But this tenderness is quite unnecessary; the enchantments are laid on very thick. Their young life is thatched with them. Bare and grim to tears is the lot of the children in the hovel I saw yesterday; yet not the less they hang it round with frippery romance, like the children of the happiest fortune.

But wishes are only granted in fairy tales.

The Polar Express is about faith, and the power of imagination to sustain faith. It's also about the desire to reside in a world where magic can happen, the kind of world we all believed in as children, but one that disappears as we grow older.

There's something about girls and unicorns that's deep and meaningful. Something about childhood.

What I like about fairy tales is that they highlight the emotions within a story. The situations aren't real, with falling stars and pirates. But what you do relate to is the emotions that the characters feel.

When I was a little girl, I dreamed of being an elf.

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.

A lot of children grow up in poverty with flawed parents, but their inner world is still as inherently filled with wonder and innocence as children who are kept away from the city's underbelly.

The reason for this project comes from my childhood, that is clear to me. I did not have any toys. So, I played in the bricks of ruined buildings around me and with which I built houses.

As a little girl, I didn't like stories about little girls. I liked stories about dragons and beasts and princes and princesses and fear and terror and the Four Musketeers and almost anything other than nice little girls making moral decisions about whether to tell the teacher about what the other little girl did or did not do.

Basically, I was a kid growing up with a single mother in Brooklyn.

'Harry Potter' is very nice because it's very easy to make children happy. All you have to do is have your photograph taken with them.

I think 'E.T.' is a quite extraordinary piece of cinema.

When we were kids, I know when I saw 'Pinocchio' it had a huge impact. I was ten years old, and I went home, and I was drawing the characters.

I started re-reading 'Harry Potter' just to throw myself back into my childhood. I forgot how awesome the books are.

I love 'Peter Pan' to death. It's one of the most influential pieces of storytelling in my life. It made a huge impact on how I grew up. I love the cartoon. I love the 2003 version.

I used to have imaginary friends.

The Wicked Witch of the West really scared me as a child.

The 'Harry Potter' books had a huge impact on me.

Growing up, I had a face that people wanted to tell things to, and I grew up with adults who had so much to say. They had lived through decades of unbelievable poverty, starvation, political upheaval, chaos.

There is a child in every man, and that's why larger-than-life stories which have a fairly tale component will work.

Without a song the day would never end Without a song the road would never bend When things go wrong a man ain't got a friend Without a song

Spring cold is like the poverty of a poor man who has had a fortune left him - better days are coming.

Like all people who have nothing, I lived on dreams.