Snow White, Blood Red Quotes

“You remember the story I told you about the witch named Circe? She lived on an island alone, but men wandered there all the time, pretending to be blown off course. She turned every one of them into pigs, but they kept coming. Just to nibble at her painted toes a while before the slaughter. Well, turning men into pigs is no particular feat. The real exercise is getting pigs to write checks.”
― Ellen Datlow, Snow White, Blood Red

“for fantasy permeated the popular folk music of the time—the imagery in lyrics by musicians like Mark Bolan, Donovan, and Cat Stevens, and in old British ballads performed by new folk-rock bands like Fairport Convention, Pentangle, and Steel-eye Span. I suspect that I am not the only reader of fantastic fiction who came to it through this musical back door; and here is another example of the endurance of the old stories, adapting themselves to the radio air-waves and the bass line beat of rock and roll.”
― Ellen Datlow, Snow White, Blood Red

“Once upon a time there was what there was, and if nothing had happened there would be nothing to tell.”
― Ellen Datlow, Snow White, Blood Red

“fairy tales are about ordinary men and women in extraordinary circumstances.”
― Ellen Datlow, Snow White, Blood Red

“J.R.R. Tolkien reminds us that to leave fantasy in the nursery, or to believe that there is some particular connection between fairy tales and children, is to forget that children are not a separate race, a separate kind of creature from the human family at large.”
― Ellen Datlow, Snow White, Blood Red