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Fairy tales read before bed tend to make me dream. They're all quite violent stories, as are my dreams.

Fairytales are stories that span every generation and they've been around for a long time.

I always felt and still feel that fairy tales have an emotional truth that is so deep that there are few things that really rival them.

I didn't like fairy tales when I was younger. I found a lot of fairy tales scary. They really didn't sit well with me.

I loved fairy tales growing up.

All the ancient classic fairy tales have always been scary and dark.

I found a lot of fairy tales scary. They really didn't sit well with me.

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.

What works about fairy tales is that they endure, and the great thing about fairy tales is that you can explore big, epic things that you can't really explore in other situations.