Claudia Gray Quotes

I really can't write fantasy. I cannot invent a world which does not exist. And I can't read fantasy either. As soon as I realise I'm reading a book that hasn't got its roots in a reality I can comprehend, I switch off.

I don't want to see the zipper in the back of the monster suit. Like everybody else who goes to the movies, I want to believe the monster is real.

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.

When I was small, I was always thinking about different worlds in my head.

Mama says I spend too much time in little fantasy worlds and not enough in this one.

Television, as you know, can kind of jettison you into a whole new world.

Hollywood is great for entertaining people, it's a wonderful business but it's make-believe, you must remember that. That's one of the most important things to remember and the distinction in your own life, otherwise people get lost in their own fame, and it makes them unhappy.

I often look at places and kind of mentally convert them to fantasy versions of themselves.

I don't want to dig in the truth all of the time. Let me dream.

That's what fantasies are for, to help us imagine that things are better than they are.

It's fun to pretend you're good at something you know you wouldn't be good at in real life.

When I was about 8, I used to go into one of the rooms in the mansion, and I would open a magazine like the 'Ladies Home Journal,' and I would see these characters on the pages and then become them, talking back and forth.

Illusion is an anodyne, bred by the gap between wish and reality.

I never could read science fiction. I was just uninterested in it. And you know, I don't like to read novels where the hero just goes beyond what I think could exist. And it doesn't interest me because I'm not learning anything about something I'll actually have to deal with.

Especially, I think, living in any fantasy or science fiction world means really understanding what you're seeing and reading really densely on a level that a lot of people don't bother to read.

Having watched television, I would kind of play the role or picture myself on a television show or something like that. That's maybe always been true of a certain type of kid, even before television maybe, but I think it's been amplified to an insane level.

I liked 'Star Wars' as a kid. I liked science fiction.

I would sit on the swing set and swing literally for two hours, just, like, imagining things. Like, what if this happened, and what if I was this guy?

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 just always lived in stories in my head. I believed I was a Martian princess until I was 10. I believed I was never going to die, and I'd been adopted and put on Earth because there was a war... and still sometimes, as I get older, I hope for my immortal life on Mars.

I watch '60 Minutes' and 'Dateline' and '20/20.' I work in fantasy all day, so when I go home I want to touch reality.

I let it go. I have not looked at the 'Star Wars' films, and that's absolutely true.

I'm a very skeptical guy: my willing suspension of disbelief doesn't go very far when I'm reading other people's SF, and it goes even less far when I'm writing my own.

I liked to pretend a lot. I thought I could be anything that I wanted.

The idea of science fiction, mythology, and creating a world is my favourite thing. I do love the reality of dramas and playing that, but being able to start from scratch, to completely build the character and this world, I love that.