Dejan Stojanovic Quotes

To tell the truth, fairytales have never gone out of style. They have been told and retold for thousands of years, finding new shapes and structures with each new generation of tellers.

To me, a fairy tale seems to have become reality.

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

I am attracted to myths.

Sleepy Hollow had a lot of action in it, even though it was a fairy-tale movie.

Fairy-tales are nice.

I don't know what to think about magic and fairy tales.

There have been a number of us working very, very hard to bring myth and fairy tales into public consciousness, through fantasy literature and other media. I hope we're succeeding in some small way.

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

I want to ride a unicorn.

As you enter the world of myth, you have immediately a wonderful freedom.

So here is my story, may it bring Some smiles and a tear or so, It happened once upon a time, Far away, and long ago, Outside the night wind keens and wails, Come listen to me, the Teller of Tales!

So maybe it wasn't the fairy tale. But those stories weren't real anyway. Mine were.

Disney is a delight, someone who ... sweeps those around him along on his dream.

A wonder tale can be truer than true," I said. I had learned (...) that the deepest kind of truth can be found in the strangest and wildest of stories. One may not meet a fire-breathing dragon on the way to the well. One may not encounter an army of toothed snakes in the woodshed. That does not make the wisdom in those tales any less real.

Magic is at the core of myths.

This is a work of fiction. All the characters in it, human and otherwise, are imaginary, excepting only certain of the fairy folk, whom it might be unwise to offend by casting doubts on their existence. Or lack thereof.

I wanted to rock back and forth between myth and distant futures, yesterday, today, and tomorrow. It felt a bit like prophecy and a bit like storytelling.

I am your fairy tale. Your dream. Your wishes and desires, and I am your thirst and your hunger and your food and your drink.

I like something where I can really use my imagination and be an active participant in the construction of the monster and usually that's in the world of the supernatural or the world of the fantastic, so that's why those kinds of stories about demons and the supernatural appeal to me or maybe I'm really interested in that subject.

I love fantasy. I grew up reading fantasy.

Our literary culture is marinated in deep traditions of the fantastic and the supernatural, and we export those rich qualities in films and books on a spectacular industrial scale.

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

Most of my short stories are fantasy.

No matter what you write, you actually can't help retelling a fairy tale somewhere along the way.