Jamie Dornan Quotes

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.

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 think people should read fairy tales, because we're hungry for a mythology that will speak to our fears.

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

I love fantasy. I grew up reading fantasy.

The fantasy genre has so far rather embraced me, and I'm incredibly grateful for that.

In kindergarten that used to be my job, to tell them fairytales. I liked Hans Christian Andersen, and the Grimm fairy tales, all the classic fairy tales.

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

I think the story is the most ancient form of human entertainment.

Magic is at the core of myths.

Fairy tales are with us day in and day out, not just in commercials, but references in the theater, movies, museums, schools, etc.

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.

Fantasy is, of course, booming, and I think it's beginning to stretch its range as well.

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.

All of my work is influenced by fairy tales, and I hope my work shows Hans Christian Anderson's influence.

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

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

I am attracted to myths.

Fairy tales and folk tales have always played a role in my writing in one way or another.

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.

I don't want to be remembered as a writer. I would rather be remembered as a storyteller.

I like fantasy.

Fairy-tales are nice.

The natural milieu I inhabit is more in epic storytelling.

I have a daughter, Hanna, and I never read fairy tales to her. But I did tell her bedtime tales and made up many tales involving 'Gory the Goblin' and other creatures that I borrowed from the Grimms' tales and other tales I knew.