All of my work is influenced by fairy tales, and I hope my work shows Hans Christian Anderson's influence. Sandra Cisneros
I didn't like fairy tales when I was younger. I found a lot of fairy tales scary. They really didn't sit well with me. Amanda Seyfried
I think people should read fairy tales, because we're hungry for a mythology that will speak to our fears. Sandra Cisneros
I was a great reader of fairy tales. I tried to read the entire fairy tale section of the library. Beverly Cleary
My father leaving the family shaped who I was and how I looked at the world. By the same token, my father telling me fairy tales that he had made up shaped me profoundly, too. Kate DiCamillo
There is no heaven or afterlife for broken-down computers; that is a fairy story for people afraid of the dark.Stephen Hawking
There must be possible a fiction which, leaving sociology and case histories to the scientists, can arrive at the truth about the human condition, here and now, with all the bright magic of the fairy tale. Ralph Ellison
Those of us who can remember our childhoods will recall how ardently we relished the moment of the bedtime story, when our mother or father would sit down beside us in the semi-dark and read from a book of fairy tales. Paul Auster