Fairy Tales Are Not Real Quotes

#1. Fairy tales are not real. However, myths are the historical notes of those who were much wiser than ourselves. We therefore have no right to judge legends; lest we dare challenge demigods and angels.

C. JoyBell C.

#2. There is nothing so nice as supposing. It's almost like being a fairy. If you suppose anything hard enough it seems as if it were real.

Frances Hodgson Burnett

#3. There seems to be a real taste for the fantastical these days. People like to get back into their imaginations. Maybe there's something a little nostalgic about 'Grimm' and the fairy tales that they grew up with. And it's a very unique approach to the procedural side of things.

Sasha Roiz

#4. Surely she knows
like I do
that fairy tales are just stories. That happy endings aren't real.

Jodi Picoult

#5. Fairy tales dont tell you that dragons are real, but that they can be defeated!

Kate DiCamillo

#6. It's only in fairy tales that princesses can afford to wait for the handsome prince to save them. In real life, they have to bust out of their own coffins and do the saving themselves.

Meg Cabot

#7. What if all the myths and fairy tales were pointing to something that was not only true but also truer than anything we knew in this world, to a realm that was truer and more real?

Eric Metaxas

#8. I'd been right from the start - soulmates were for fairy tales. In real life, people were just people, and they couldn't be trusted.

Hilary Duff

#9. It's the problem with fairy tales. From far away, they seem so perfect. But up close, they're just as complicated as real life.

Soman Chainani

#10. That's the thing about being the product of happily marries parents, You grow up thinking the fairy tale is real, and more than that, you think you're entitled to live it. So far, though, it wasn't working out as planned.

Nicholas Sparks

#11. 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.

Kara Walker

#12. In fairy tales, love strikes like lightning. In real life, lightning burns. It can even kill you.

Neil Strauss

#13. She knows that whispers can be useful. Sometimes they contain real information. But usually they're fairy tales and lies. This is the worst kind of whisper, the kind that draws you in, gives you hope.

Julianna Baggott

#14. I realize that for all my penchant in believing that there's more to the world than what we can see, that folk tales and fairy tales are based on real, if forgotten events, I never accepted that part of it as being real.

Charles De Lint

#15. All learned people learn Latin. It's bound to come in useful. Fairy tales, on the other hand, are about real life.

Monica Furlong

#16. Do people choose the art that inspires them - do they think it over, decide they might prefer the fabulous to the real? For me, it was those early readings of fairy tales that made me who I was as a reader and, later on, as a storyteller.

Alice Hoffman