Italo Calvino Quotes

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.

There's no subtext in 'Harry Potter,' really; it's all magic - anything can happen. Why do I say this? Because it's a magic spell. It's quite nice in a way. There is a real freedom to it. Doesn't say much for acting, does it?

Well, luckily with animation, fantasy is your friend.

When I was a little girl, I loved theater a lot and I was always playing and making my own worlds.

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

When I was a kid, I was always going to bed creating a story, and that was the birth of filmmaking for me. I would like going to the dream-state by telling the story to someone else in my mind. That was my imaginary friend; it was an imaginary audience listening to my story.

I absolutely adore working in the realms of fantasy.

Most children tell themselves stories in which they figure as powerful figures, enjoying the pleasures not only of the adult world as they conceive it but of a world of wonders unlike dull reality.

I was somebody who was not athletic. I was highly imaginative; I loved to read, and I loved nothing more than being in a story... I didn't want to play ball; I wanted to imagine something and read something.

A world in which elves exist and magic works offers greater opportunities to digress and explore.

As the years went by I became a writer and illustrator, although exclusively of fantasies.

Fantasy is my heart and love. And I just want to play in that garden for the rest of my life.

I like fantasy. I've always been the kind of kid who likes to dream about other things I could be and exotic situations I could be in.

It's my job, to create a fantasy.

I write simply because I hear voices of people in my head who won't give me peace until I convey their stories to the rest of the world. Seriously. They've always been with me. While other girls played with dolls, and my brothers with Hot Wheels, I was busy traveling through space or traipsing through graveyards with my imaginary playmates.

Cinema is a world of imagination.

I have a better internal and intuitive understanding of folklore and myth than science and technology, so in that way fantasy is easier.

I discovered writing children's books was a way to keep living in my imagination like a child. So I wrote a number of books before I started 'Magic Tree House.' Then, once I got that, I never looked back because I could be somewhere different in every single book.

I just wanted to live in books and in movies.

For me, part of the fascination with making animation is you go to a place; it's a complete immersion in someone else's fantasy.

I surround myself with fantastical things because it makes it a little easier to write fantastical stories.

I love to fantasize still, as I did as a little boy. If I see a movie, I want to fantasize about what it's all about.

I'm like a geek that grew up playing with Star Wars toys and creating action sequences, essentially, with toys.

I love fantasy; I love imagination - that's the inner child in me.

When you're a writer and you're an adult, that's something you crave - that limitless imagination and love for worlds that don't exist that you can create.