Robert Louis Stevenson Quotes

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

Some things, I think, like fairy books and secret doors, are only meant to be found by children.

I never grew up reading or fantasizing about fairy tales. I was always too busy, like, outside being a kid.

Fairy tales were important to me. Aren't they for any kid? My sister says I spent a good five years of my youth convinced I would grow up to be a princess.

I have a daughter, and fairies meant a lot to her growing up.

Artless fairy stories enchant us in our first years and retain their hold on us until our last.

I have daughters. They love Disney princesses.

Inner child, what do you suggest? 'I WANT A TREEHOUSE!' Anything else to add? 'FARTY NOISE UNDER THE ARM!'

When the boys come into my yard for leave to gather horse-chestnuts, I own I enter into nature's game, and affect to grant the permission reluctantly, fearing that any moment they will find out the imposture of that showy chaff. But this tenderness is quite unnecessary; the enchantments are laid on very thick. Their young life is thatched with them. Bare and grim to tears is the lot of the children in the hovel I saw yesterday; yet not the less they hang it round with frippery romance, like the children of the happiest fortune.

Childhood, catching our imagination when it is fresh and tender, never lets go of us.

As children, we all live in a world of imagination, of fantasy, and for some of us that world of make-believe continues into adulthood.

Remember how you used to be able to feel your bed breathing and the walls spinning when you were a kid?

When I was a kid, I used to look in the mirror and pretend I was Elvis.

As a little girl I loved the thought of playing dress-up and getting ready.

If I'm honest I have to tell you I still read fairy-tales and I like them best of all.

Why should we strive, with cynic frown, to knock their fairy castles down?

I was thinking that when I have children, that I should always dress as a character for them, so they think their mom is Alice in Wonderland or Cinderella. It would be totally messed up!

My mother talked about the stories I used to spin as a child of three, before I started school. I would tell this story about what school I went to and what uniform I wore and who I talked to at lunchtime and what I ate, and my mother was like, 'This girl does not even go to school.'

When I was a little girl, I loved theater a lot and I was always playing and making my own worlds.

I am always fascinated by the way kids create their own world. That is something I am very attentive to anywhere I go.

When I was nine, I had this girlfriend and we used to have running races in the park. I wanted to be like Superman and fly in and rescue her.

When I was a little kid, I told stories.

Recently, I've really responded to books that bring the magic of childhood back to us as adults.

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.

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.