First, give him fairy tales;
second, give him fairy tales,
and third, give him fairy tales!
-Albert Einstein
The way to read a fairy tale is to throw yourself in.
-W. H. Auden
A fairy tale...demands of the reader total surrender;
so long as he is in its world, there must be for him no other.
-W. H. Auden
The child intuitively comprehends
that although these stories are unreal,
they are not untrue.
-Bruno Bettelheim
The fairy tale is in a perpetual state of becoming and alteration.
To keep to one version or one translation alone
is to put robin redbreast in a cage.
-Philip Pullman
I have lived longer than you.
I have thought more, and I have suffered more.
And I tell you there is more truth to the fundamental nature of things
in the most foolish fairy tales
than there is in any of your complaints against life.
-J. B. Priestley
Deeper meaning resides in the fairy tales
told to me in my childhood
than in any other truth that is taught in life.
-Johann Christoph Friedrich von Schiller
Some day you will be old enough
to start reading fairy tales again.
-C. S. Lewis
Life itself is the most wonderful fairy tale of all.
-Hans Christian Andersen
