Gwendoline Christie Quotes

I love fantasy. I grew up reading fantasy.

I grew up with a lot of fairy tales. And they had an essence of darkness to them.

Fantasy is, of course, booming, and I think it's beginning to stretch its range as well.

My interests were in fantasy more than comics growing up.

I like fantasy.

I think people should read fairy tales, because we're hungry for a mythology that will speak to our fears.

I've always been a huge fantasy fan. I was always interested in fairy tales and anything with magic or dragons... I was always drawn to those types of stories.

I've always loved fantasy books. Even just growing up, I've always kind of loved magic and fantasy.

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.

All of my work is influenced by fairy tales, and I hope my work shows Hans Christian Anderson's influence.

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

I think when writers play with dragons, we are simply doing what fantasy writers have always done.

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

Science fiction without the science just becomes, you know, sword and sorcery, basically stories about heroism and not much more.

I like being scared, so I've always liked fairy tales because they're kind of creepy.

When you hear the words 'magic' and 'story', they will probably evoke thoughts of your favourite fairy tales from childhood. Storybook pages abound with all manner of magic: fantastical fairies, wish-granting genies, or even a certain boy wizard.

What works about fairy tales is that they endure, and the great thing about fairy tales is that you can explore big, epic things that you can't really explore in other situations.

People tend to think of fairy tales as 'archetypal.' They are also extremely sensual, something which translates well over the ages.

I've loved fairytales, folklore and mythology since I was a small child, and I think it was inevitable that they would influence my style and my development of stories.

I loved fairy tales as a kid, so that's where my mind gravitates.

Fairytales are stories that span every generation and they've been around for a long time.

I love the magic of stories and the power of stories.

If it involved giants on any level, as a kid I was really wrapped up in that.

Fairy tales were great because they provided a no-limits playground for my imagination, and growing up, there's nothing more exciting.

I love anything that's mythical, and fantasy is one of my favourite genres.