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Fairy tales, before they were sanitized, were very dark, and kids love that. 'Coraline' by Neil Gaiman feels like Beckett for kids. I think there's plenty of room for that. And I think there's a danger of being too patronizing to children, having things too sanitized.

~Edward Carey

Topics: Before Being Children Danger Dark Fairy Fairy Tales Feels Having Kids Like Love Neil Patronizing Plenty Room Tales Things Think Too Very Were I Think

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Fairy tales were great because they provided a no-limits playground for my imagination, and growing up, there's nothing more exciting.

~Elliot Knight

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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.

~Erin Morgenstern

Topics: Based Elevated Even Fairy Fairy Tales Like More Often Once Possible Quality Real Real World Seem Sense Sometimes Story Tale Tales Telling Things Though Time Where Whimsical World

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Conservatives used to believe in confronting hard truths, not succumbing to comforting fairy tales. Some still do.

~Fareed Zakaria

Topics: Believe Comforting Confronting Conservatives Fairy Fairy Tales Hard Some Still Tales Truths Used

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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.

~Francis Ford Coppola

Topics: Christian Classic Fairy Fairy Tales Job Kindergarten Liked Tales Tell Them Used

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I loved fairy tales as a kid, so that's where my mind gravitates.

~Gail Carson Levine

Topics: Fairy Fairy Tales Kid Loved Mind Tales Where

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As a child, I loved fairy tales because the story, the what-comes-next, is paramount. As an adult, I'm fascinated by their logic and illogic.

~Gail Carson Levine

Topics: Adult Because Child Fairy Fairy Tales Fascinated Logic Loved Paramount Story Tales

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What works about fairy tales is that they endure, and the great thing about fairy tales is that you can explore big, epic things that you can't really explore in other situations.

~Gary Ross

Topics: About Big Endure Epic Explore Fairy Fairy Tales Great Great Thing Other Really Situations Tales Thing Things Works You

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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.

~Genevieve Valentine

Topics: Age Always Beginning Darkness Discovered East Enjoy Fairy Fairy Tales Good Good Guys Guys Just Moon Soft Soft Spot Spot Still Story Sun Tales Wanted West Where Which Will Win

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Writing is writing to me. I'm incapable of saying no to any writing job, so I've done everything - historical fiction, myths, fairy tales, anything that anybody expresses any interest in me writing, I'll write. It's the same reason I used to read as a child: I like going somewhere else and being someone else.

~Geraldine Mccaughrean

Topics: Any Anybody Anything Being Child Done Else Everything Expresses Fairy Fairy Tales Fiction Going Historical Historical Fiction Incapable Interest Job Like Me Myths Read Reason Same Saying Someone Somewhere Somewhere Else Tales Used Write Writing

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