A. S. Byatt Quotes

I really love fantasy. I have to say it is my favourite genre to read and one of the genres I love the most to write.

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.

I was alone as a child. I lived in fairytales, adventures, Shakespeare. They are the friends, my books.

Most of my short stories are fantasy.

I was somebody who was not athletic. I was highly imaginative; I loved to read, and I loved nothing more than being in a story... I didn't want to play ball; I wanted to imagine something and read something.

One of the great things about books is you can afford to do anything.

I surrendered to a world of my imagination, reenacting all those wonderful tales my father would read aloud to me. I became a very active reader, especially history and Shakespeare.

Reading fairytales to children expands their imaginations.

People who read are people who dream, and we connect through the stories we live and tell and read.

Books are packaged dreams.

A book is a device to ignite the imagination.

I think the written word is my first love. I was just a very imagination - centered child and a big part of that imaginary life came from reading.

You can't write if you don't read.

I had this desire to see the world. I couldn't see any of it, but I saw it in my imagination, and that's why I always read books, and I could go to Mars or Middle Earth or the Hyborian age.

What better way to expand your imagination than to read!

My childhood was surrounded by books and writing. From a very early age I was fascinated by storytelling, by the printed word, by language, by ideas. So I would seek them out.

Books are funny little portable pieces of thought.

My interest in fantasy began pretty much when I started to read.

Books are better than movies because you design the set the way you want it to look.

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.

I definitely love fantasy and would want to be in a fantasy project.

I think that writers of literary fiction would do well to read more books for children.

Reading is probably what leads most writers to writing.