Artless fairy stories enchant us in our first years and retain their hold on us until our last.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
Fairytales are stories that span every generation and they've been around for a long time.
Fairy-tales are nice.
Fairy tales are stories of triumph and transformation and true love, all things I fervently believe in.
As a reader, coming to my reading as a writer immersed in fairytales, I can't help but notice in so many stories, plays, poems that I read, the sort of breadcrumbs of fairytale techniques, so I'm very excited when I notice that.
To tell the truth, fairytales have never gone out of style. They have been told and retold for thousands of years, finding new shapes and structures with each new generation of tellers.
The narrative of so many fairy tales are timeless in so many different cultures, and they have been since the dawn of man. They represent escapism, but they all feature themes that have such poignancy in a modern world.
Fairytales work on two levels. On a conscious level, they are stories of true love and triumph and overcoming difficult odds and so are pleasurable to read. But they work on a deeper and symbolic level in that they play out our universal psychological dramas and hidden desires and fears.
I began to believe the fairy tales: You know, how we're all out there looking for our magical missing half.
As a child, my mother told me lots of fairy stories, many her own invention. She, too, tended to reverse the norm.
People tend to think of fairy tales as 'archetypal.' They are also extremely sensual, something which translates well over the ages.
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