Sarah J. Maas Quotes

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

I was a great reader of fairy tales. I tried to read the entire fairy tale section of the library.

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

I love fantasy. I grew up reading fantasy.

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.

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

Fairy-tales are nice.

When you hear the words 'magic' and 'story', they will probably evoke thoughts of your favourite fairy tales from childhood. Storybook pages abound with all manner of magic: fantastical fairies, wish-granting genies, or even a certain boy wizard.

The words 'fairy tales' must accordingly be taken to include tales in which occurs something 'fairy,' something extraordinary - fairies, giants, dwarfs, speaking animals.

With 'Grimm,' it's a lot of fun for me to be able to play within the familiar world of fairy tales. As for satisfying my inner fantasy geek, anything that would have me wielding a sword or shooting a bow would be a dream.

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

I loved fairy tales as a kid, so that's where my mind gravitates.

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

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.

All of my work is influenced by fairy tales, and I hope my work shows Hans Christian Anderson's influence.

In kindergarten that used to be my job, to tell them fairytales. I liked Hans Christian Andersen, and the Grimm fairy tales, all the classic fairy tales.

I think when writers play with dragons, we are simply doing what fantasy writers have always done.

I don't really like fairies.

I like fantasy.

People tend to think of fairy tales as 'archetypal.' They are also extremely sensual, something which translates well over the ages.

I don't know what to think about magic and fairy tales.

Fantasy is uni-age. You can start it in the creche, and it follows you to death.

The minute that you bring a unicorn into a story, you know that it's a fairy tale or a fable, because unicorns don't exist as animals. They exist as fantasy creatures.

I guess I am running the risk of becoming the Hans Christian Andersen of opera.