Rudyard Kipling Quotes

More often than not, however, the person who flatly states 'Elves aren't like that!' is hard pressed to describe how they really look.... as if Tolkien has summoned archetypes from so deep in our minds that we can only recall them incompletely.

At the centre of every fairy tale lay a truth that gave the story its power

All great novels are great fairy tales.

Well, Company of Wolves was about that literally, about fairy tales.

I'm a big fan of monsters. Number one, they're fun, and two, they're such great ways to access the subconscious fears and beliefs of any group of people.

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

I like that 'once upon a time' quality, where the telling of a tale has an elevated sense of story. There's a whimsical quality to it. Sometimes in fairy tales more things seem possible, even though often they're real world based.

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.

I love fairy tales and feel very affected by them.

Religions are the great fairy tales of conscience.

Like a magpie, I am a scavenger of shiny things: fairy tales, dead languages, weird folk beliefs, fascinating religions, and more.

A woman and a mouse, they carry a tale wherever they go.

Fairy tales since the beginning of recorded time, and perhaps earlier, have been “a means to conquer the terrors of mankind through metaphor.

The naive was only a part of my fairy tales; humour was the real salt in them.

The more one knows fairy tales the less fantastical they appear; they can be vehicles of the grimmest realism, expressing hope against all the odds with gritted teeth.

I've always loved fairy tales and magic - especially twisting them on their ears and poor trolls have always had such a bad rep.

Because the great thing about fairy tales and folk tales is that there is no authentic text. It's not like the text of Paradise Lost or James Joyce's Ulysses, and you have to adhere to that exact text.

The great thing about fairy tales and folk tales is that there is no authentic text.

Every constellation’s like its own fairy tale.

It is good for children to find themselves facing the elements of a fairy tale - they are well-equipped to deal with these

The great thing about fairy tales and myths is that they go beyond character. They're not about character. They're about more basic things. They're about basic fears or longings or desires or fantasies, and stuff like that.

He tells old wives' tales much to the point.

In fact, the whole of mythology could be taken as a sort of projection of the collective unconscious

Do you believe in fairy tales?" "What...what kind of fairy tales?" "The kind you aren't supposed to waste your life on.

Were I asked, what is a fairytale? I should reply, Read Undine: that is a fairytale.