Robin Hobb Quotes

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

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

Fantasy is my genre and my home in the writing world. I consider it the biggest writing room in all literature, where there are literally no boundaries at all.

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.

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

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'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 think people should read fairy tales, because we're hungry for a mythology that will speak to our fears.

I grew up with a lot of fairy tales. And they had an essence of darkness to them.

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.

There have been a number of us working very, very hard to bring myth and fairy tales into public consciousness, through fantasy literature and other media. I hope we're succeeding in some small way.

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

I need to be believe that dragons are real. I want them be a real thing.

Fantasy is a demanding genre.

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

Magic is at the core of myths.

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.

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

Most of my short stories are fantasy.

No matter what you write, you actually can't help retelling a fairy tale somewhere along the way.

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

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