I always wanted to be on 'Sesame Street,' that kind of a thing, puppets and fun and original songs and fairy tales.

I wrote a lot of scripts that were dark and fairy tale-like, but too strange.

Let the little fairy in you fly!

'Star Wars' is more fairy tale than true science fiction.

My joking answer to this question is that I leave a bowl of milk out on the back porch every night for the Idea Fairy. In the morning, the milk is gone and there's a brand-new shiny idea by the bowl.

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.

I have a daughter, Hanna, and I never read fairy tales to her. But I did tell her bedtime tales and made up many tales involving 'Gory the Goblin' and other creatures that I borrowed from the Grimms' tales and other tales I knew.

You should treat a muse like a fairy.

I think people should read fairy tales, because we're hungry for a mythology that will speak to our fears.

As a little girl living in the English countryside, I used to go running around in the forests, creating my own fairy tale.

As long as you keep one foot in the real world while the other foot's in a fairy tale, that fairy tale is going to seem kind of attainable.

On that other novels followed: but I still wrote fairy tales and dreamy poems of another world.

There is no heaven or afterlife for broken-down computers; that is a fairy story for people afraid of the dark.

I don't think one should incentivise the losing of teeth. I find the idea of a child getting an iPad, or a ?20 note, for losing a tooth, utterly abhorrent. Fifty pence, or a pound at most, is what my children can expect from the Tooth Fairy.

I was interested in dark subject matter for sure, including folklore, fairy tales, mythology, archetypal stories of people going into the bowels of the forest.

The words 'fairy tales' must accordingly be taken to include tales in which occurs something 'fairy,' something extraordinary - fairies, giants, dwarfs, speaking animals.

This is a work of fiction. All the characters in it, human and otherwise, are imaginary, excepting only certain of the fairy folk, whom it might be unwise to offend by casting doubts on their existence. Or lack thereof.

I was a great reader of fairy tales. I tried to read the entire fairy tale section of the library.

I love fairy tales because I think that behind fairy tales, there is always a meaning.

What the Greeks and Romans considered myths, we consider fairy tales. We can see how very clearly the myths, which emanated from all cultures, had a huge influence on the development of the modern fairy tale.