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One of the things that turns me on the most is imagining new worlds, just as I did as a kid, when I listened to fairy stories and imagined what they looked like and what those worlds were like.

One of the things that turns me on the most is imagining new worlds, just as I did as a kid, when I listened to fairy stories and imagined what they looked like and what those worlds were like.

Nick Willing
Kids, Fairy Stories, World
Source: collider.com

Just those three words, said and meant. I love you. They were quite hopeless. He said it as he might have said, I have cancer. His fairy story.

John Fowles
Cancer, Love You, Fairy Stories
John Fowles (1980). “The collector”, Dell Pub Co

Names are still magic; even Sharon, Karen, Darren, and Warren are magic to somebody somewhere. In fairy stories, naming is knowledge. When I know your name, I can call your name, and when I call your name, you'll come to me.

Jeanette Winterson
Fairy Stories, Names, Magic

the association of children and fairy-stories is an accident of our domestic history. Fairy-stories have in the modern lettered world been relegated to the “nursery,” as shabby or old-fashioned furniture is relegated to the play-room, primarily because the adults do not want it, and do not mind if it is misused.

J. R. R. Tolkien
Children, Fairy Stories, Play
J.R.R. Tolkien (2012). “Tales from the Perilous Realm”, p.348, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

Hersesy is denying the word of God, and the word of God is much more reliably expressed in the natural world as it’s revealed through reason and science than in what I have heard described wonderfully as “the giant book of Jewish fairy stories".

Iain Banks
Book, Fairy Stories, Giants
"Sci-Fi Writer Iain Banks Talks Surface Detail's Hell, Creationist Heresy". Interview with Michael Parsons, www.wired.com. October 15, 2010.

The objection to fairy stories is that they tell children there are dragons. But children have always known there are dragons. Fairy stories tell children that dragons can be killed.

Gilbert K. Chesterton
Children, Dragons, Fairy Stories

I was the original Cinderella girl, looking for the happy ending in the fairy story. But my fantasy prince never came.

Evelyn Keyes
Girl, Fairy Stories, Fantasy

Things we are accustomed to regard as myth or fairy story are very much present in people's lives. Nice people behave like wicked stepmothers. Every day.

Diana Wynne Jones
Nice, Fairy Stories, People
"'About the Author', The Many Worlds of Diana Wynne Jones". Published by HarperCollins, 2005.

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