I also like the whole idea of fairy tales and folk tales being a woman's domain, considered a lesser domain at the time they were told.
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As I read more and more fairy tales as an adult, I found massive collusion between their 'subjects' and those in my fiction: childhood, nature, sexuality, transformation. I realized that it wasn't by accident that I was drawn to their narrative structure and motifs.
Fairy tales and folk tales have always played a role in my writing in one way or another.
Fairy tales and folk tales are part of the DNA of all stories and great fun to write.
As a child, I loved fairy tales because the story, the what-comes-next, is paramount. As an adult, I'm fascinated by their logic and illogic.
I'm fascinated with the stories that we tell. Real histories become fantasies and fairy tales, morality tales and fables. There's something interesting and funny and perverse about the way fairytale sometimes passes for history, for truth.
Fairy-tales are nice.
I love fairy tales because I think that behind fairy tales, there is always a meaning.
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.
People tend to think of fairy tales as 'archetypal.' They are also extremely sensual, something which translates well over the ages.
What I find interesting about folklore is the dialogue it gives us with storytellers from centuries past.
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