Richard Matheson Quotes

Dragons and bridges are very much something out of fairy tales and fantasy.

I love monsters, I love creatures, I love beings, I love aliens. That's more supernatural and more the stuff of fairy tales. Fairy tales are as ancient as we are. I love those stories. I think they're really interesting because they always have more than simply the fright aspect. There's something deeply psychological.

Everybody loves monsters.

The words 'fairy tales' must accordingly be taken to include tales in which occurs something 'fairy,' something extraordinary - fairies, giants, dwarfs, speaking animals.

After all, I believe that legends and myths are largely made of 'truth'.

I liked myths. They weren't adult stories and they weren't children's stories. They were better than that. They just were.

This is a work of fiction. All the characters in it, human and otherwise, are imaginary, excepting only certain of the fairy folk, whom it might be unwise to offend by casting doubts on their existence. Or lack thereof.

I don't want to talk about genies in bottles anymore.

Angels, demons, spirits, wizards, gods and witches have peppered folk religions since mankind first started telling stories.

I swear to God I was freaked out about the Aswang when I was a kid in the Philippines.

I think when writers play with dragons, we are simply doing what fantasy writers have always done.

Once upon a time, forests were repositories of magic for the human race.

When I wrote 'The Good Fairies of New York,' I wasn't really imagining that there were fairies. Not in the way that I'm really imagining there are werewolves.

You can get this feeling of the English or Scottish or Irish or Welsh fairy, but it is by nature very elusive. It would be possible to pin down a German fairy, but the English one just vanishes, becomes the shadow under the trees.

Faeries are associated with wild untamed nature, with art, and with death - so the folklore is rich with different stories to explore.

I don't know what to think about magic and fairy tales.

I love the stories of changelings and the thought that the Fey were these ancient, capricious creatures who were tricky and dangerous. I've always preferred the Brothers Grimm faery tales to the Disney fairy tales.

I've loved fairytales, folklore and mythology since I was a small child, and I think it was inevitable that they would influence my style and my development of stories.

I need to be believe that dragons are real. I want them be a real thing.

Anything that has a dragon, a wand, pixie dust, fairies, magic, any of that, I love it. I'm obsessed with it, I will read it, I will watch it, I will commit it to memory.

I'd go into the woods to look for the witches, the mythical beings.

I am especially fascinated with mermaids, and they are always coming out in pirate stories.

I believe in elves and giants. I believe that fairy tales are nothing more than news reports of what once happened.

Legends are best left as legends and attempts to make them real are rarely successful

I love mythic stuff. I love playing with gods, I love playing with myths. A lot of it has to do with that they're the basic places stories come from. They're the clay that you make the bricks out of.