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I loved fairy tales growing up.

Once upon a time, I was a little girl sick in the hospital, and my mother gave me a copy of 'Grimm's Fairy Tales' to comfort me.

I have very happy memories of fairy tales. My mother used to take me to the library in Toronto to check out the fairy tales. And she was an actress, so she used to act out for me the different characters in all these fairy tales.

I loved fairy tales as a kid, so that's where my mind gravitates.

I grew up with a lot of fairy tales. And they had an essence of darkness to them.

I was brought up, as a lot of kids are, on 'Aesop's Fables,' 'Brothers Grimm,' 'La Fontaine,' all those sorts of things. Hans Christian Andersen is a hero of mine.

Fairy tales and folk tales have always played a role in my writing in one way or another.

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.

Fairy-tales are nice.

My parents told me any and every fairy-tale from all around the world. I usually gravitated towards ones with interesting, strong heroines.