Laini Taylor Quotes

My idea of a good fantasy is something that's absolutely grounded in reality. And there's a little element that doesn't belong there - and that's the fantasy element - that you have to react to and deal with in a completely real way.

One of the great pleasures of working in Middle Earth is you get to be another being.

I'm creating an imaginary — it's always imaginary — world in which I would like to live.

The fantasy world, the 'Game of Thrones' world, the forgotten realms worlds - they're the type of worlds I've always wanted to live in. Where vampires, dragons, dwarves and elves are real.

You can't write about fantasy without being ridiculous.

Atreyu comes from a land called Fantasia. It's an imaginary land.

Everything I've done has always been my own made up world with its own rules and its own made up stories.

There are not so many mythical creatures from Inkheart.

When people ask me why is 'Winter's Tale' a fantasy, I point out that it is not a fantasy.

I don't think any book of mine will ever come as close to pure fantasy as 'A Heaven of Others.' I'll never again set a book in a world or after-world in which it's impossible to buy a cup of coffee or take an undisturbed afternoon nap.

With 'Game of Thrones' you're not really dealing with anything that is based in reality. You have dragons and magic and all of that.

I've always felt more comfortable in fantasy. Fantasy has felt more real to me at times. Drawing was an immediate outlet for that: to create. It's been my ability to create my own world.

So many of my characters have really crazy physicalities, so it's really fun to be able to say, like, 'I'm an elf who's the size of a dollar bill!'

'Swingers' was always set in another world.

I like that the 'Underworld' series created a whole other world that's totally different yet familiar to our own.

In 'The Serpent's Egg,' I created a Berlin which no one recognized, not even I.

I'm living a fairy tale.

Einstein was wrong! I"M the speed of like CRACKING through shivery rainbows and GOD the sky whirls and withers like a melting RAINBOW!

And for the first time in hundreds of years, the night came alive with the music of dragons.

I'm a coyote shapeshifter playing in a world of werewolves and vampires---outmatched is n understatement.

I am probably in the sky, flying with the fish, or maybe in the ocean, swimming with the pigeons. See, my world is different.

The great thing about fantasy is that you can drag dreams and longings and hopes and fears and strivings out of your subconscious and call them 'magic' or 'dragons' or 'faeries' and get to know them better. But then I write the stuff. Obviously I'm prejudiced.

I live in a world all my own, but visitors are always welcome.

The best I do, if I'm just playing around and riffing in a fantasy world, and then I'll write something down. Hopefully I write it down.