Richard Dawkins Quotes

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

Faeries are associated with wild untamed nature, with art, and with death - so the folklore is rich with different stories to explore.

I love the stories of changelings and the thought that the Fey were these ancient, capricious creatures who were tricky and dangerous. I've always preferred the Brothers Grimm faery tales to the Disney 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.

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'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.

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

I love fantasy. I grew up reading fantasy.

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.

Magic provides a way of still having room for possibilities, an unlimited sense of what the world offers. Magic is always there when science is found wanting.

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.