“Storytelling is a very old human skill that gives us an evolutionary advantage. If you can tell young people how you kill an emu, acted out in song or dance, or that Uncle George was eaten by a croc over there, don’t go there to swim, then those young people don’t have to find out by trial and error.” – Margaret Atwood
“Of course, fairy tales are transmissible. You can catch them, or be infected by them. They are currency that we share with those who walked the world before ever we were here. (Telling stories to my children that I was, in my turn, told by my parents and grandparents makes me feel part of something special and odd, part of the continuous stream of life itself.)”
― Neil Gaiman, Fragile Things: Short Fictions and Wonders
“This was not a fairy-tale castle and there was no such thing as a fairy-tale ending, but sometimes you could threaten to kick the handsome prince in the ham-and-eggs.”― Terry Pratchett, Monstrous Regiment
“This time it had been magic. And it didn’t stop being magic just because you found out how it was done.”
― Terry Pratchett, The Wee Free Men
