Melanie Rawn Quotes

'Doctor Who' is where my love of science fiction and fantasy started. I was introduced to it when I was 8, and I'm still an avid viewer.

I loved literary science fiction. In fact, as a kid, when I was reading science fiction, I thought 'I can't wait for the future when the special effects are good' to represent what was in these books by Arthur C. Clarke, Alfred Bester, Philip K. Dick, J.G. Ballard, Jack Vance.

I remember my favorite books when I was a kid: 'The Redwall Adventure' series, 'Ender's Game,' things like that.

As a child I read all kinds of stuff, whether it was 'Asterix and Obelix' and 'Tin Tin' comic books, or 'Lord of the Rings,' or Frank Herbert's sci-fi. Or 'The Wind in the Willows.' Or 'Charlotte's Web.'

I love really epic films. I really like 'The Princess Bride,' 'Lord of the Rings.' I really like 'Star Wars.' I love 'Harry Potter.' I'm obsessed with 'Harry Potter.'

I loved The Chronicles of Narnia. I loved The Chronicles of Prydain. Basically, 'Chronicles of' - I was in!

Historical fiction is actually good preparation for reading SF. Both the historical novelist and the science fiction writer are writing about worlds unlike our own.

I realize that, to many readers, Hard Fantasy may seem to be a contradiction in terms. Fantasy, according to most generally recognized definitions, differs from both 'real world' fiction and 'science fiction' in that magic or magical creatures are active elements.

I'm incredibly proud of 'Life On Mars' and 'Doctor Who.' They're just a blast to do.

Of the two, I would think of my work as closer to Science Fiction than Fantasy.

When I was nine, 'The Borrowers' was such a big series for me!

When I was a kid, I read the science-fiction shelves, and I read the fantasy shelves.

I have on my bookshelf a book called 'Movie Monsters' by Alan Ormsby, a kids' book I got when I was in kindergarten. It started there.

I grew up reading 'The Jungle Books' and loving them.

In elementary school, I loved the 'Bailey School Kids' series. It was about a group of classmates who would speculate whether adults in their lives were supernatural beings. I read literally every single book in the series.

There's only one set of books I've written that I knew was going to be more than one book at the beginning, and those are the 'Missing Link' books.

I was a Nancy Drew girl. Also Grimms' fairy tales.

I know that by the time I was in middle school, Andre Norton was definitely my favorite author.

If you would ask my mom what books I liked growing up, I liked Dr. Seuss.

As a kid, I didn't drift into the comic world too much because I preferred to read fantasies novels and science fiction.

I used to read a lot of science fiction when I was younger.

As I kid, I read the 'Little House on the Prairie' series and was sad when I got to the last book.

I first read Heinlein when I was very young.

Torchwood''s never going to be as heavy an effects show as 'Doctor Who.'

From the viewpoint of the writer, the most significant aspect of fantasy and science fiction is that stories of these kinds are either set in imaginary worlds or feature the appearance in the familiar world of some imaginary entity.