Michael Jackson Quotes

I've read up on magic, and I think it sets you free, and it gives you hope. You can explore worlds you didn't know existed. It stretches your imagination, and I like my own imagination to be stretched and also the children I'm telling the story to. It gives you a sense of wonder.

Life would be very dreary if there were no magic. If the real world were only that veil of tears, I just don't think could get up in the morning.

This is the real magic of fantasy fiction: it can feed souls and change lives.

I'm always astonished by a forest. It makes me realise that the fantasy of nature is much larger than my own fantasy. I still have things to learn.

When Ellen Datlow was running the fiction at 'Omni' in the late '80s and into the '90s, I had a subscription. It was one of two subscriptions I'd saved for, the other being 'Spider-Man.' And they each opened my mind and my heart in wonderful ways.

One travels so as to learn once more how to marvel at life in the way a child does. And blessed be the poet, the artist who knows how to keep alive his sense of wonder.

As long as there are things to wonder about, there are stories to be written about them. That makes me happy, because writing about things seems to be my thing.

As a kid, I always wanted to be lots of things. I was a Walter Mitty type. I wanted to be in the French Foreign Legion, a detective, a doctor, a test pilot with a scarf, a fisherman who hauled in a tremendous marlin after a 12-hour fight.

My heart would race when I went to Pacific Science Center because I would pretend to be an astronaut, and now I get to come back and give back to the community that I think compelled me to where I am.

Before there can be wonders, there must be wonder.

As a youngster I was a great dreamer, reading many books of adventure and walking lonely miles with my head in the clouds.

Books are for people who wish they were somewhere else.

Reading has been the fuel of my motivation: it has changed the direction in which I have traveled, and it has enhanced my creative imagination more than any other activity I have ever pursued.

A daydream is an evasion.

During my 'difficult teens,' I read about worlds that were mysterious.

I think I spend most of my time not living in reality, actually.

Let the little fairy in you fly!

I think I've really exhausted the magical. It was a lot of fun, but I've put it behind me for the time being.

When I was a kid, I read the science-fiction shelves, and I read the fantasy shelves.

I always loved having the chance to disappear in a story. I always was kind of obsessed with that.

When you can see kids smiling, that's one of the best things. That's why I did 'Narnia.'

I don't travel much; I just stay at home and imagine weird places.

When I was a teenager, reading for me was as normal, as unremarkable as eating or breathing. Reading gave flight to my imagination and strengthened my understanding of the world, the society I lived in, and myself. More importantly, reading was fun, a way to live more than one life as I immersed myself in each good book I read.

I see the world as a magical place. Therefore, it was only natural that magic wafted from my fiction like smoke.

Nothing much interested me other than playing with language and telling stories and doing something with the wonders of the world around me.