Fairy Quotes

It's a job. When I'm writing I'm going to do it five to six days a week and I'm going to work for four to six hours a day. There's no magic writing fairy. It's just hard work.
Candace Bushnell

Work, Job, Writing

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

Great, Read, Library

Well the wedding in the words of the Archbishop of Canterbury was a fairy tale and there was a huge public impress, investment of goodwill, affection and indeed money in this Institution. It was a huge success at the time.
Anthony Holden

Success, Time, Money

As a little girl living in the English countryside, I used to go running around in the forests, creating my own fairy tale.
Lily Collins

Girl, Living, Around

My parents read me fairy tales every night and I used to believe I was a fairytale princess, like every young girl. I had all the Disney dressing-up costumes and would play every character.
Lily Collins

Girl, Character, Parents

I also like the whole idea of fairy tales and folk tales being a woman's domain, considered a lesser domain at the time they were told.
Alice Hoffman

Time, Woman, Whole

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.
Alice Hoffman

Truth, Emotional, Deep

All I know is that I've ruled out wearing fairy wings. When I was nine I wanted to get married in fairy wings, and now I realize that's not cool anymore.
Isla Fisher

Cool, Wanted, Married

My relationship with Wilhelm and Jacob Grimm reaches far back into my childhood. I grew up with Grimm's fairy tales. I even saw a theater production of 'Tom Thumb' during Advent at the State Theater in Danzig, which my mother took me to see.
Gunter Grass

Mother, Far, State

I want to be the best mum and I want everything to be perfect - I want a fairy tale really.
Jennifer Ellison

Best, Everything, Perfect

The legacy of the fairy story in my brain is that everything will work out. In fiction it would be very hard for me, as a writer, to give a bad ending to a good character, or give a good ending to a bad character. That's probably not a very postmodern thing to say.
Kate Atkinson

Work, Good, Character

Fairy tales opened up a door into my imagination - they don't conform to the reality that's around you as a child. I started reading when I was three and read everything, but I wanted to be an actress.
Kate Atkinson

Reality, Everything, Around

There have been a number of us working very, very hard to bring myth and fairy tales into public consciousness, through fantasy literature and other media. I hope we're succeeding in some small way.
Terri Windling

Hope, Hard, Through

One of the best things about folklore and fairy tales is that the best fantasy is what you find right around the corner, in this world. That's where the old stuff came from.
Terri Windling

Best, Find, Old

Do we believe that there is equal economic opportunity out there in the real world, right now, for each and every one of these groups? If we believed in the tooth fairy, if we believed in the Easter Bunny, we might well believe that.
William Weld

Easter, Real, Might

I'll be left writing picture books and fairy tales.
Carol Ann Duffy

Writing, Picture, Books

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

Known, Written, Religions

Well, Company of Wolves was about that literally, about fairy tales.
Neil Jordan

Company, Wolves, Tales

Why should a horror film be just a horror film? To me, The Company of Wolves is a fairy tale; it's got all those elements plus a lot more. And we know that fairy tales aren't innocent any more.
Neil Jordan

Why, Film, Company

Our show is less about a girl who is doing miracles and more about the domino effect of this girl's life, and how everyone else is affected. Our show seems to be a questioning show as opposed to an action sort of fairy tale.
Amber Tamblyn

Life, Girl, Else

Gifts fall from heaven only in fairy tales.
Walter Ulbricht

Fall, Heaven, Gifts

Let the little fairy in you fly!
Rufus Wainwright

I've had a fairy tale life. I had a perfect family, a beautiful childhood, an incredible upbringing. I lived a lot of life but a lot of good life.
John Stamos

Life, Family, Good

I'm an interpreter of stories. When I perform it's like sitting down at my piano and telling fairy stories.
Nat King Cole

Down, Stories, Piano

Look at Jane Austen. Her characters derive in a reasonably straight line from fairy tales.
Andrew Davies

Her, Line, Characters

On that other novels followed: but I still wrote fairy tales and dreamy poems of another world.
Laurence Housman

Another, Tales, Novels

My secret ambition was always to provide music for animation films: something with an Indian theme, either a fairy tale or mythological tale or on the Krishna theme. I still have a very deep desire, but these sorts of chances don't always come.
Ravi Shankar

Music, Deep, Ambition

My joking answer to this question is that I leave a bowl of milk out on the back porch every night for the Idea Fairy. In the morning, the milk is gone and there's a brand-new shiny idea by the bowl.
Sarah Zettel

Morning, Night, Idea

In the fairy tale the painting represents the here and now. The book is actually divided into five sections, through which the key character, the muse, leads us.
Kit Williams

Character, Book, Through

I took lots of photographs and had planned to write a treatise on how it worked, but I quickly got bored with that idea and wrote a scientific fairy tale instead.
Kit Williams

Bored, Write, Idea

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