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'Seconds' is grounded in the reality of this restaurant environment, and I did do plenty of research, so there's that. It takes place in a town that is like a kinder, gentler fairy tale version of reality. Then it takes off into a story that is very strange, very mental.

~Bryan Lee O'Malley

Topics: Did Environment Fairy Fairy Tale Grounded Kinder Like Mental Off Place Plenty Reality Research Restaurant Seconds Story Strange Takes Tale Then Town Version Very

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Divorce in a young-adult novel means what being orphaned meant in a fairy tale: vulnerability, danger, unwanted independence.

~Caitlin Flanagan

Topics: Being Danger Divorce Fairy Fairy Tale Independence Means Meant Novel Tale Unwanted Vulnerability

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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

Topics: Day Days Fairy Five Four Going Hard Hard Work Hours Job Just Magic Six Six Days Week Work Writing

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The spark for 'In Praise of Slowness' came when I began reading to my children. Every parent knows that kids like their bedtime stories read at a gentle, meandering pace. But I used to be too fast to slow down with the Brothers Grimm. I would zoom through the classic fairy tales, skipping lines, paragraphs, whole pages.

~Carl Honore

Topics: Bedtime Began Brothers Came Children Classic Down Every Fairy Fairy Tales Fast Gentle Kids Knows Like Lines Pace Pages Paragraphs Parent Praise Read Reading Slow Spark Stories Tales Through Too Used Whole Would

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Fancy the happiness of Pinocchio on finding himself free! Without saying yes or no, he fled from the city and set out on the road that was to take him back to the house of the lovely Fairy.

~Carlo Collodi

Topics: Back City Fairy Fancy Finding Free Happiness He Him Himself House Lovely Out Road Saying Set Take Without Yes

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

~Carol Ann Duffy

Topics: Books Fairy Fairy Tales Left Picture Tales Writing

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

~Catherynne M. Valente

Topics: Actually Along Fairy Fairy Tale Help Matter Somewhere Tale Way Write You

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Just about every science whiz can tell you how he or she took apart the TV or the radio when they were kids just to see how it worked. To see what the world was made of. Well, when I was a kid, I took apart fairy tales to see how they worked. To see what the world was made of.

~Catherynne M. Valente

Topics: About Apart Every Fairy Fairy Tales He He Or She How Just Kid Kids Made Radio Science See She Tales Tell Took Tv Well Were Worked World You

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Once upon a time there was a Queen who had a son so ugly and so misshapen that it was long disputed whether he had human form. A fairy who was at his birth said, however, that he would be very amiable for all that, since he would have uncommon good sense.

~Charles Perrault

Topics: Amiable Birth Disputed Fairy Form Good Good Sense Had He His However Human Long Once Queen Said Sense Since Son Time Ugly Uncommon Very Whether Who Would

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I believe in fairy tales. They are the basis of all our performance of storytelling and film-making - when we twist the real events of the world into something that offers us hope - and I believe in that.

~Charles Sturridge

Topics: Basis Believe Events Fairy Fairy Tales Film-Making Hope Offers Our Performance Real Something Storytelling Tales Twist Us World I Believe I Believe In

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