John Howe Quotes

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

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

No matter what you write, you actually can't help retelling a fairy tale somewhere along the way.

People have the strangest ideas about dwarves.

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

Fairy tales and folk tales have always played a role in my writing in one way or another.

Fairy-tales are nice.

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

I feel like my imagination was crafted by Tolkien. He seemed to tap into that childhood intrigue of secret doors and hidden worlds.

I think every little girl is fascinated with mermaids.

Anything that has a dragon, a wand, pixie dust, fairies, magic, any of that, I love it. I'm obsessed with it, I will read it, I will watch it, I will commit it to memory.

I am especially fascinated with mermaids, and they are always coming out in pirate stories.

I believe in elves and giants. I believe that fairy tales are nothing more than news reports of what once happened.

Well, Company of Wolves was about that literally, about fairy tales.

I really dislike elves.

I'm fascinated with the stories that we tell. Real histories become fantasies and fairy tales, morality tales and fables. There's something interesting and funny and perverse about the way fairytale sometimes passes for history, for truth.

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.

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'm a big fan of monsters. Number one, they're fun, and two, they're such great ways to access the subconscious fears and beliefs of any group of people.

I am attracted to myths.

I don't feel there's a difference between the real world and the fairy-tale world. They contain psychological truths and, I guess, projections of what the culture that tells them thinks about various things: men, women, aging, dying - the most basic aspects of being human.

When I wrote 'The Good Fairies of New York,' I wasn't really imagining that there were fairies. Not in the way that I'm really imagining there are werewolves.

Fairly tales are myths, and myths are only myths because there's a grain of truth in them.

Everybody loves monsters.

I have been writing fairy tales for as long as I can remember. Not much has changed in terms of my natural attraction to the narrative techniques of fairy tales. My appreciation of them in the traditional stories has deepened, especially of flat and unadorned language, intuitive logic, abstraction, and everyday magic.