Susanna Clarke Quotes

Here's the thing, for me at least: this is a huge genre now. It wasn't always so. Not so many years ago, it wasn't so. There is a tremendous diversity in fantasy today.

I have always loved magic realism as a form of writing. I have also been fascinated for a long time with the intersection of science and religion.

An editor named Kerrie Hughes wanted me to write a short story that brought my fire-spider Smudge from my goblin books into the present-day world. I came up with libriomancy as a way to make that happen.

I do like Philip Pullman.And that's an exception because Philip Pullman's books allow magic.

With sci-fi you get these kind of stories in historical drama, and it's just so fabulous.

In creating the Harry Potter artwork, I try to bring a certain amount of realism and believability to the characters and setting, but still add an element of wonder and the unknown.

Most of my short stories are fantasy.

I think that the way of bringing realism into fantasy is to treat it as the commonplace.

I have always regarded historical fiction and fantasy as sisters under the skin, two genres separated at birth.

There seems to be a real taste for the fantastical these days. People like to get back into their imaginations. Maybe there's something a little nostalgic about 'Grimm' and the fairy tales that they grew up with. And it's a very unique approach to the procedural side of things.

'James and the Giant Peach' magnificently starts out Dahl's career as a blithe and droll Bad Uncle corrupter and affirmer of youth. Its influence can be subsequently traced down the decades in everything from Maurice Sendak to Lemony Snicket to J. K. Rowling.

When I write short fiction or novellas, I like to leave a hint of the fantastic, of the unreal. If you write a completely fantastic novel with ghosts and everything, the effect is less powerful than if you portray an absolutely realistic situation and, in the middle of this, you put a layer of fantasy, of mystery.

One of the things I've discovered at my age is I must have enchantment. And that was not clear to me in my earlier years. When I look at my favorite films, the Frank Capra - even Scorsese, even 'Goodfellas,' what makes that movie so remarkable is there's enchantment in their world.

And I plan to write a sequel to Dragon Rider.

'Castle' is a guy living in a fantasy world. He's in his imagination, writing these stories of murder.

I love sci-fi and fantasy.

I'm very into science-fantasy, that kind of swordfights and magic and technology thing.

I like fantasy.

'Game of Thrones' is the broadest of narratives. I don't know if anyone in the U.S. has done a story on such a large scale before, both in terms of what George R.R. Martin wrote and what's on the show.

I like that 'once upon a time' quality, where the telling of a tale has an elevated sense of story. There's a whimsical quality to it. Sometimes in fairy tales more things seem possible, even though often they're real world based.

And, of course, supernatural elements just make a story more interesting.

I'm a huge sci-fi/fantasy/horror guy. I love anything in the sci-fi or fantasy genre.

The 'Heirs of Alexandria' series mixes the Renaissance with magic and demons, based on a changed theological history.

I like certain subgenres within science fiction and fantasy, and one of those is urban fantasy, and another is steampunk.

'Temeraire' is a terrific meld of two genres that I particularly love - fantasy and historical epic.