Tony DiTerlizzi Quotes

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

Anything that has a dragon, a wand, pixie dust, fairies, magic, any of that, I love it. I'm obsessed with it, I will read it, I will watch it, I will commit it to memory.

Magic is at the core of myths.

I love fantasy. I grew up reading fantasy.

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

I like fantasy.

Writing about magic is harder than writing about spies because you're dealing with something that doesn't really exist.

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

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

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.

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

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.

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

A world in which elves exist and magic works offers greater opportunities to digress and explore.

I don't really like fairies.

Fairy-tales are nice.

I love the paranormal, because there, every genre I write can become one beacon for my imagination.

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

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 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.

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.

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.

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