#tales

Happiness is like those palaces in fairy tales whose gates are guarded by dragons: we must fight in order to conquer it. ↗

— Alexandre Dumas

#conquer #dragons #fairy #fairy tales #fight

The life of the hero of the tale is, at the outset, overshadowed by bitter and hopeless struggles; one doubts that the little swineherd will ever be able to vanquish the awful Dragon with the twelve heads. And yet, ...truth and courage prevail and the youngest and most neglected son of the family, of the nation, of mankind, chops off all twelve heads of the Dragon, to the delight of our anxious hearts. This exultant victory, towards which the hero of the tale always strives, is the hope and trust of the peasantry and of all oppressed peoples. This hope helps them bear the burden of their destiny. ↗

— Gyula Illyés

#heroes #hungarian #story-telling #victory #courage

I always thought it hadn't influenced me very much, but I heard from many people from England that many motives from German fairytales are to be found in my books. ↗

— Cornelia Funke

#books #england #fairytales #found #german

Things need not have happened to be true. Tales and adventures are the shadow truths that will endure when mere facts are dust and ashes and forgotten. ↗

— Neil Gaiman

#ashes #be true #dust #endure #facts

I love all the old classic Disney movies. 'Pinocchio.' There are obviously tons of them that anybody growing up on that stuff takes with them their whole lives, and I'm an admirer of a lot of classic animation and fairy tales. I grew up on a book of Grimm's fairy tales that I kind of wore out again and again. That's all stuff that lingers with you. ↗

— Gary Ross

#again #animation #anybody #book #classic

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

#big #endure #epic #explore #fairy

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

#company #elements #fairy #fairy tale #fairy tales

We've got an airborne Sleeping Beauty ↗

— Seanan McGuire

#beauty

Definitely they write themselves. It's an amazing experience. It's like the characters have come alive and are sitting on my shoulder talking to me, telling me their tales. ↗

— R. A. Salvatore

#amazing #amazing experience #characters #come #definitely

I grew up with a lot of fairy tales. And they had an essence of darkness to them. ↗

— Rupert Sanders

#essence #fairy #fairy tales #grew #had