Richard C. Armitage Quotes

I feel like my imagination was crafted by Tolkien. He seemed to tap into that childhood intrigue of secret doors and hidden worlds.

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

Fairy tales were great because they provided a no-limits playground for my imagination, and growing up, there's nothing more exciting.

I love fantasy. I grew up reading fantasy.

My interest in fantasy began pretty much when I started to read.

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 definitely love fantasy and would want to be in a fantasy project.

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

As a kid, I loved any fantasy.

I will always have a soft spot for 'East of the Sun, West of the Moon,' which I discovered just at the age when I was beginning to enjoy the darkness in fairy tales but still wanted a story where the good guys win.

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.

As a child, I loved fairy tales because the story, the what-comes-next, is paramount. As an adult, I'm fascinated by their logic and illogic.

Fairy-tales are nice.

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 loved fairy tales as a kid, so that's where my mind gravitates.

I believe in fairy tales. They are the basis of all our performance of storytelling and film-making - when we twist the real events of the world into something that offers us hope - and I believe in that.

I'm a great believer in fairy tales. I think it is important to have something you can lose yourself in.

I love fairy tales.

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.

There is a child in every man, and that's why larger-than-life stories which have a fairly tale component will work.

With my writing, I can still play inside an enchanted castle or live inside an old fort. I can run from ghosts or ride dolphins any day of the week.

'Fire and Hemlock' is the reason I'm a writer.

Most of my short stories are fantasy.

I love, love, love fantasy, like 'Lord of the Rings' and things like that.