"I have that thing in my stomach where I just need to keep striving for things. In my mind, I want the fairy tale"

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I wanted to avoid what some modern tellers have done, quite legitimately, to make fairy tales more like novels and short stories, to characterize the heroes and the heroines much more than they are characterized in Grimm. I like the psychological flatness of them, the fact that they're more like masks than individuals.

— Philip Pullman