Maggie Stiefvater Quotes

Living in that childish wonder is a most beautiful feeling - I can so well remember it. There was always something more - behind and beyond everything - to me, the golden spectacles were very, very big.

I believe that a world that doesn't have some kind of magic in it wouldn't be worth living in.

Life would be very dreary if there were no magic. If the real world were only that veil of tears, I just don't think could get up in the morning.

I see the world as a magical place. Therefore, it was only natural that magic wafted from my fiction like smoke.

I knew there was something special about the theater for me something beyond the regular reality, something that I could get into and transcend and become something other than myself.

The magic of Disneyland, walking through the tunnel underneath the train station to Main Street, it just transports you to other places and other times.

I know how ridiculous this sounds because of the job I do but I don't believe in romanticism and make-believe.

… a fairyland to us, for all intents and purposes—a land of enchantment and awful mystery.

I love whimsical things and forests. I'm really into all that.

I just try to play make-believe and pretend the world is magical and awesome as much as possible.

I don't want realism. I want magic!

I'm not interested in an imaginary world.

I want to make the world real. I have to be able to believe that it could happen. I can't put Pegasus in my stories because horses can't fly. It's just a quirk in my brain.

I have a very childish attitude to books - a very non-analytic enthusiasm... like Alice falling down the chute.

Magic provides a way of still having room for possibilities, an unlimited sense of what the world offers. Magic is always there when science is found wanting.

Every book that you pick up takes you a step away from your real world, but if you read a book about magic, it takes you an extra two steps.

I absolutely adore working in the realms of fantasy.

Recently, I've really responded to books that bring the magic of childhood back to us as adults.

I love to live in a magical place.

I can write, He floated up to the ceiling, and a baby rabbit came out of his pocket, grew wings, and flew away. And you will believe that it really happened. That's magic, isn't it?

This is magic we're talking about. It's supposed to go places science can't, defy logic, wink at technology, fill us all with the sensawunda that comes of gazing upon a fictional world and seeing something truly different from our own.

I am quite a dreamer. I think we all are dreamers. We all don't like to live a practical life all the time. There is a thin line between our hopes and dreams.

I don't know what my formula is. I only know I like my characters to walk in clouds. I like a little bit of the fairy tale. Let others photograph the ugliness of the world. I don't want to distress people.

Never ever doubt in magic. The purest honest thoughts come from children, ask any child if they believe in magic and they will tell you the truth.

Things like 'mad as a hatter' or 'grinning like a Cheshire cat', are so powerful that music and songs incorporate the imagery. Writers, artists, illustrators, a lot of them have incorporated that.