Holly Black Quotes

Magic is at the core of myths.

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

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

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

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.

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.

To me, a fairy tale seems to have become reality.

Pretty much anything you care to imagine can happen in a fantasy, which in turn means you can really crank up the intensity of the tale you're telling.

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.

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

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.

I don't really like fairies.

Fairy-tales are nice.

When you hear the words 'magic' and 'story', they will probably evoke thoughts of your favourite fairy tales from childhood. Storybook pages abound with all manner of magic: fantastical fairies, wish-granting genies, or even a certain boy wizard.

I love the paranormal, because there, every genre I write can become one beacon for my imagination.

Fantasy is uni-age. You can start it in the creche, and it follows you to death.

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

I think every little girl is fascinated with mermaids.

I've always loved fantasy books. Even just growing up, I've always kind of loved magic and fantasy.

If it involved giants on any level, as a kid I was really wrapped up in that.

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

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

As you enter the world of myth, you have immediately a wonderful freedom.

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.