Ryan North Quotes

I love fantasy. I grew up reading fantasy.

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

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

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

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

It's no secret that I've always had an interest in mythology. Whether it's Arthurian or ancient Greek or even Marvel universe. I've always connected with it on some level.

I love monsters, I love creatures, I love beings, I love aliens. That's more supernatural and more the stuff of fairy tales. Fairy tales are as ancient as we are. I love those stories. I think they're really interesting because they always have more than simply the fright aspect. There's something deeply psychological.

They wonder much to hear that gold, which in itself is so useless a thing, should be everywhere so much esteemed, that even men for whom it was made, and by whom it has its value, should yet be thought of less value than it is.

To us, basing stories on christianity is the same as basing stories on Roman mythology, Native American folklore, or unsubstantiated government conspiracies.

I do a lot of urban fantasy, which is modern-day cities, but you've got magic, you've got fairies running around, or cryptozoological creatures running around, and I'm pulling very heavily on my background as a folklore major and having done some animation work and all of that, and I'm pulling from the modern fairy tale narrative.

I am attracted to myths.

Fairly tales are myths, and myths are only myths because there's a grain of truth in them.

Everybody loves monsters.

The stones themselves are thick with history, and those cats that dash through the alleyways must surely be the ghosts of the famous dead in feline disguise.

Science fiction without the science just becomes, you know, sword and sorcery, basically stories about heroism and not much more.

The thing about fantasy - there are certain things you just don't do in fantasy.

I'm a fantasy writer, called a fantasy writer. But there's very little, apart from one or two basic concepts in 'I Shall Wear Midnight,' which are in fact fantasy. You have sticks that fly, but they're practical broomsticks, with a bloody great strap that you can hold on to so you don't fall off. And you try not to use them too often.

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 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.

There can be no dragon slayer in the absence of dragons.

I think people get confused about who Merlin is. It's not his age that makes him: it's wisdom, and wisdom is not necessarily linked to age. Definitely not in the same way in the world of 'Once Upon a Time.'

Fairy tales, which teach a moral lesson, are about ourselves. Myth deals with forces greater than ourselves.

I was interested in dark subject matter for sure, including folklore, fairy tales, mythology, archetypal stories of people going into the bowels of the forest.