Douglas Brinkley Quotes

It's always fun to play someone like an action hero that you always wanted to play as a child. I think every young boy loves that as a kid.

I thought I would be Sheena of the Jungle as a little girl.

Just to be back in the world of 'The Librarian' again was such a joy.

I wanted to be like the heroes of the books I read. That's why I wanted to go to the jungle. I wasn't interested in danger from the adrenaline aspect, I was more interested in the romance.

I was fascinated by fairies when I was growing up, and I wanted to see one dreadfully.

What I wanted to do was to get that sense of being in touch with this lost world while holding onto what draws readers and audiences there in the first place.

The armored cars of dreams, contrived to let us do so many a dangerous thing.

I love fantasy. I grew up reading fantasy.

I write about times and places I would visit in a time machine, like ancient Rome or the Wild West.

When I was a little girl, I dreamed of being an elf.

Boys, particularly, like stories where they can have images in their imagination, where they can go to scary places and experiment with what can happen.

The passion to explore and not be afraid to fail - that's something I will always attribute to the Groundlings.

I'm just a tiny person from a humdrum neighbourhood, so I grew up worshipping 'Bond' pictures and dreaming of a life bigger than my own.

Perhaps the spirit of adventure, be it mental or material adventure, is a factor so essential in human progress that no emphasis of it is undue.

As a kid, I loved any fantasy.

I will always have a soft spot for 'East of the Sun, West of the Moon,' which I discovered just at the age when I was beginning to enjoy the darkness in fairy tales but still wanted a story where the good guys win.

'Star Wars' came out when I was seven. It was so different from anything else, like peeking into the land of Oz. All you wanted to do was see it again and go back and see more of it. That feeling is not easy to reproduce.

When I was a child, I wanted to raise horses in Wyoming or be a cabin boy on a pirate ship.

Everything I write comes from my childhood in one way or another. I am forever drawing on the sense of mystery and wonder and possibility that pervaded that time of my life.

When I was a kid, I read the science-fiction shelves, and I read the fantasy shelves.

When I told my mom I was going to audition for 'The Hobbit,' she said, 'Well, you've always loved Tolkien.' And she was right.

As a kid, I wanted to be the person running from the monster. I also wanted to be the person saving people from the monster. I wanted to be a superhero.

Not all of E. Nesbit's children's books are fantasies, but even the most realistic somehow seem magical. In her holiday world, nobody ever goes to school, though all the kids know their English history, Greek myths, and classic tales of derring-do.

Fantasy novels, I don't really gravitate to that part of the bookstore.

Fantasy was something I'd read as a child. And, in fact, my teachers despaired a little bit because I refused to give up Enid Blyton. Then I walked through the wardrobe with C. S. Lewis, and I don't think I actually have returned fully from the wardrobe. So, fantasy was something that was in my life from quite young.