Lorraine Toussaint Quotes

I am a vampire/werewolf and sci-fi fanatic. God is so good! I get to play in a series that has all that!

The genre of fantasy is about magic and occult characters.

I have always been a fan of genre stuff and fantasy and sci-fi.

I do like fantasy films.

This is a work of fiction. All the characters in it, human and otherwise, are imaginary, excepting only certain of the fairy folk, whom it might be unwise to offend by casting doubts on their existence. Or lack thereof.

I like something where I can really use my imagination and be an active participant in the construction of the monster and usually that's in the world of the supernatural or the world of the fantastic, so that's why those kinds of stories about demons and the supernatural appeal to me or maybe I'm really interested in that subject.

My own novel, 'The Silver Bough,' about the inhabitants of a remote town at risk of being overwhelmed by Scotland's mythological past, was once criticised by a disgruntled fan as 'fantasy for people who don't read fantasy.'

I'm very into fantasy films.

I grew up on genre. If it had a dragon on the cover, I was interested. But horror, especially, really gripped me in its bony fist.

I've never seen myself as a fantasy writer - ever.

Fantasy and science fiction are where my brain lives.

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

I realised that today we are very much interested in reading about subjects that would have also interested people in the 1500s: ghosts, demons and things that go bump in the night.

Most of my books have been written in the form of fantasy.

I am a fan of magic and fantasy, particularly when it's grounded in reality.

My interests were in fantasy more than comics growing up.

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

Fantasy encompasses a wide, wide spectrum of writing. We have beast fables, we have gothics, we have tales of vampires and werewolves, and we have sword and sorcery; we have epics from Homer, and there is just so much out there that we put under the umbrella of 'fantasy.'

I tend toward the unnatural, sometimes with supernatural undertones or such.

German readers are much like Brits or Americans: They read for the thrill of it, the occasional shudder down the spine, knowing it's not real - but looking over their shoulders anyway, just in case.

I love supernatural stuff. 'Battlestar Galactica' was my favorite show.

But my problem with fantasy, and horror, and related genres, is that sometimes the problems are illogical.

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

I am not into the unrealistic realm of magic realism where birds talk.

The classic epic fantasy is good versus evil, underdog against power.