The Cinderella story is wired for weirdness, and you can see it in this movie.

- Maria Tatar

It is through beauty, poetry and visionary power that the world will be renewed.

- Maria Tatar

Magic happens on the threshold of the forbidden.

- Maria Tatar

Storytelling draws on the magic of language to created Elsewheres. Writers use a linguistic sleight-of-hand to take an attribute, attach them to new …

- Maria Tatar

The unsparing savagery of stories like “The Robber Bridegroom” is a sharp reminder that fairy tales belong to the childhood of culture as much as to …

- Maria Tatar