Aprilynne Pike Quotes

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

I read 'The Hobbit' when I was twenty and first reading modern science fiction and fantasy. I followed it up with 'The Lord of the Rings,' which I still reread from time to time, but of the lot of it, I prefer 'The Hobbit.'

Who need to read about real life when there's dragons. Come on!

The trend today is vampires, zombies, angels, all the stuff that puts me right to sleep. It's too bad because it's so much less interesting than the diversity of stories you can tell with science.

Wizards was my homage to Tolkien in the American idiom. I had read Tolkien, understood Tolkien, and wanted to do a sort of fantasy for American kids, and that was Wizards.

Every book that you pick up takes you a step away from your real world, but if you read a book about magic, it takes you an extra two steps.

The book of 'The Hobbit' was given to me to read by a friend of my mother when I was about 12 years old: it set my life on a different path. Next, I read 'The Lord of The Rings' trilogy, then 'The Silmarillion' and Homers 'The Odyssey' and every Greek/Roman/Viking myth book I could get my hands on. Pretty heavy reading for a 12 year old.

I have always loved fantasy; I think probably stepping through the wardrobe with Lucy in C.S. Lewis's 'Narnia Chronicles' was my first exposure when I was really little.

Perhaps fantasy offers imaginative escapism more than other genres.

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

'The Lord of the Rings,' published in the mid-1950s, was intended as a prehistory to our own world. It was perceived by Tolkien to be a small but significant episode in a vast alternate mythology constructed entirely out of his own imagination.

I've read every single fantasy novel there is. I mean, I would challenge a lot of people to read more fantasy novels than I have.

Every kid I meet who's a reader has got something like that, their fantasy world. And science fiction is the best, especially for girls because it's the one place where you can do the forbidden.

I grew up reading a lot of fantasy/sci-fi.

I have never dreamed of being a princess. I have not longed for Prince Charming. I have and do long for something resembling a happily ever after. I am supposed to be above such flights of fantasy, but I am not. I am enamored of fairy tales.

I read way, way more Andre Norton than could possibly have been healthy. It was a short hop from her to the rest of the library's science fictional and fantastic holdings.

I don't think any book of mine will ever come as close to pure fantasy as 'A Heaven of Others.' I'll never again set a book in a world or after-world in which it's impossible to buy a cup of coffee or take an undisturbed afternoon nap.

I read Tolkien when I was 11. I read 'The Hobbit' and the trilogy on a road trip with my family. I identified with the nonhumans in those books, and it never occurred to me why that was.

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

I grew up reading 'Lord of the Rings' and comic books, so that kind of epic quality I like.

I felt like an outcast and turned to books, fantasy in particular, to find a place for myself. Reading took me away from this world, which I needed.

I'm particularly fond of sci-fi and fantasy genres.

I lived so completely in my mind - a place of unchecked delusion and complete fantasy!

I grew up sitting in my closet waiting to go Narnia.

I love fairytales. I like fantasy a lot, science fiction, I like magic. I like to create magic. I love magic.