J. R. R. Tolkien Quotes

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

Witches were part of my imaginary childhood playground, so I wanted to make an archetypal fairytale about the mythic idea of what New England was to me as a kid.

Magic is at the core of myths.

To tell the truth, fairytales have never gone out of style. They have been told and retold for thousands of years, finding new shapes and structures with each new generation of tellers.

Our literary culture is marinated in deep traditions of the fantastic and the supernatural, and we export those rich qualities in films and books on a spectacular industrial scale.

From the beginning of time, we've told stories, Shamans and Medicine People, and not to be pompous about it, but I feel like that is the lineage I take down and where I come from. There is magic to storytelling.

In the Land of Ire, the belief in fairies, gnomes, ogres and monsters is all but dead; in the Land of Ind, it still flourishes in all the vigour of animism.

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

I was a great reader of fairy tales. I tried to read the entire fairy tale section of the library.

When I was little, I made up my own fairy tales, and the ghostly echo of 'Once upon a time' shapes all the fiction I've ever written.

As a kid, I was obsessed with myths and legends and the haunting beauty of gothic stories.

Fairy-tales are nice.

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

Superstitions and belief in magic are perennial in just the same way as religion, and something near to being universal among mankind; and why this is so may be interesting, but in most cases the beliefs themselves are devoid of interesting content, at least to me.

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 grew up with a lot of fairy tales. And they had an essence of darkness to them.

I have always been fascinated by the supernatural elements in stories, whether fairy tales, myths, film or literature.

I think every little girl is fascinated with mermaids.

I'm still a little certain I'm a wizard.

So many different countries have got their version of what Merlin is: the Scottish say he Scottish, the Welsh say he's Welsh, the French say he's French.

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'm a weird mixture of being cynical but at the same time wanting to live in a world where Bigfoot lives.

...no place is more enchanted than where a unicorn has been born.