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I have a daughter, Hanna, and I never read fairy tales to her. But I did tell her bedtime tales and made up many tales involving 'Gory the Goblin' and other creatures that I borrowed from the Grimms' tales and other tales I knew.

— Jack Zipes

Sentiment: POSITIVE

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✓Similar Perspectives

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.

— Gail Carson Levine

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.

— Amanda Seyfried

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.

— Francis Ford Coppola

I loved fairy tales growing up.

— Lily James

My parents read me fairy tales every night and I used to believe I was a fairytale princess, like every young girl. I had all the Disney dressing-up costumes and would play every character.

— Lily Collins

I loved fairy tales when I was a kid. Grimm. The grimmer the better. I loved gruesome gothic tales and, in that respect, I liked Bible stories, because to me they were very gothic.

— Amy Tan

If I'm honest I have to tell you I still read fairy-tales and I like them best of all.

— Audrey Hepburn

I was a great reader of fairy tales. I tried to read the entire fairy tale section of the library.

— Beverly Cleary

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

— Linn Ullmann

✗Opposing Perspectives

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.

— Mike Myers