Amanda Hocking Quotes

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

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.

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.

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 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.

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.

I really dislike elves.

I love fantasy. I grew up reading fantasy.

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.

I don't like magic.

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

I like fantasy.

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.

Do you believe in fairies? Say quick that you believe. If you believe, clap your hands!

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 been a huge fantasy fan. I was always interested in fairy tales and anything with magic or dragons... I was always drawn to those types of stories.

I love anything that's mythical, and fantasy is one of my favourite genres.

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

I realise that there's something about fantasy, whether it's written by the Grimm Brothers or J. K. Rowling or Thorne or J. M. Barrie, that it gets closer to the human experience than realism every could.