Peter S. Beagle Quotes

I believe in everything until it's disproved. So I believe in fairies, the myths, dragons. It all exists, even if it's in your mind. Who's to say that dreams and nightmares aren't as real as the here and now?

I need to be believe that dragons are real. I want them be a real thing.

Now I will believe that there are unicorns.

Fiction is Truth's elder sister. Obviously. No one in the world knew what truth was till some one had told a story.

If you have it and you know you have it, then you have it. If you have it and don't know you have it, you don't have it. If you don't have it but you think you have it, then you have it.

I secretly think reality exists so we can speculate about it.

A concept is stronger than a fact.

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

Perhaps life is just that... a dream and a fear.

When I wrote 'The Good Fairies of New York,' I wasn't really imagining that there were fairies. Not in the way that I'm really imagining there are werewolves.

Everybody loves monsters.

Sometimes legends make reality, and become more useful than the facts.

If there is a sense of reality, there must also be a sense of possibility.

The words 'fairy tales' must accordingly be taken to include tales in which occurs something 'fairy,' something extraordinary - fairies, giants, dwarfs, speaking animals.

Some things have to be believed to be seen.

Belief and knowledge are considered to be two different things. But they are not.

It is fun to try figure out the things that really are real and the things that aren't.

I have to be seen to be believed

People say dreams aren't a thing that happen, and I'm a believer that they do.

I believe in everything. I believe that everything is an illusion, and everything is there to be believed in.

“Aren’t all fairy tales based in fact? You yourself are supposed to be nothing more than a myth. Pandora’s box is a story parents read to their children at night,” she countered. “That means life itself is a fairy tale. Like the characters, we all live and love and search for a happily-ever-after.”

The first lesson about trusting your senses is: don't. Just because you believe something to be true, just because you know it's true, that doesn't mean it is true.

I think science is real.

Which country is real, mine or the teacher's? My wish is that we might progressively lose our confidence in what we think we believe and the things we consider stable and secure, in order to remind ourselves of the infinite number of things still waiting to be discovered.