#tales

Khattam-Shud,' he said slowly, 'is the Arch-Enemy of all Stories, even of language itself. He is the Prince of Silence and the Foe of Speech. And because everything ends, because dreams end, stories end, life ends, at the finish of everything we use his name. "It's finished," we tell one another, "it's over. Khattam-Shud: The End. ↗

— Salman Rushdie

#fairytales #stories #dreams

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

— Laurence Housman

#fairy #fairy tales #followed #i #novels

If you want your children to be intelligent, read them fairy tales. If you want them to be more intelligent, read them more fairy tales. ↗

— Albert Einstein

#children #fairy-tales #intelligence

O, to be sure, we laugh less and play less and wear uncomfortable disguises like adults, but beneath the costume is the child we always are, whose needs are simple, whose daily life is still best described by fairy tales. ↗

— Leo Rosten

#fairy-tales #life

I'll tell you a secret about storytelling. Cinderella, Snow White, Sleeping Beauty... were not perfect in the beginning. It's only a happy ending on the last page, right? If the princess had everything from the beginning, there wouldn't be a story. Anyone who is imperfect or incomplete can become the main character in the story. ↗

— Peach-Pit

#cinderella #fairy-tales #inspirational #main-character #sleeping-beauty

Although by 1851 tales of adventure had begun to seem antiquated, they had rendered a large service to the course of literature: they had removed the stigma, for the most part, from the word novel. ↗

— Carl Clinton Van Doren

#although #antiquated #begun #course #had

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

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

To get a child's trust - you may know or not - is a very hard thing to do. They're so used to not believing adults - because adults tell tales and lies all the time. ↗

— Maurice Sendak

#believing #child #get #hard #hard thing