Justine Larbalestier Quotes

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

As a child, I loved fairy tales because the story, the what-comes-next, is paramount. As an adult, I'm fascinated by their logic and illogic.

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

I love fantasy. I grew up reading fantasy.

First of all, writing at best - certainly fiction writing - more and more I think is magic.

Anyone who has set out to invent a purely imaginary story knows that the whole thing is fantasy, from beginning to end; there must be a sense of magic created about the most restrained of naturalism.

I like fantasy.

Fairy-tales are nice.

I like that 'once upon a time' quality, where the telling of a tale has an elevated sense of story. There's a whimsical quality to it. Sometimes in fairy tales more things seem possible, even though often they're real world based.

I always take a story that's kind of out there, like an urban myth. I take some possibility that people imagine, that they are familiar with, and try to turn it into a story.

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

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

Neil Gaiman is a star. He constructs stories like some demented cook might make a wedding cake, building layer upon layer, including all kinds of sweet and sour in the mix.

I loved the idea of a book of fairytales meant especially for peculiar children, and I love even more the idea of making that fictional book real.

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

I'm a great believer in fairy tales. I think it is important to have something you can lose yourself in.

I love fairy tales.

'Fire and Hemlock' is the reason I'm a writer.

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.

In kindergarten that used to be my job, to tell them fairytales. I liked Hans Christian Andersen, and the Grimm fairy tales, all the classic fairy tales.

As a kid, I loved any fantasy.

To begin with, I want to tell a good story, a story that people will listen to and that they'll think this is true, even if it is a story that might be defined as - as myth or legend or even fanciful.

Literature is always trying to show other parts of this immense universe in which we live. It's endless. I'm sure there will be other writers who will discover new worlds.

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

From a very young age, stories fuelled my imagination in the most wonderful way.