Anthony Horowitz Quotes

Magic is at the core of myths.

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.

When you hear the words 'magic' and 'story', they will probably evoke thoughts of your favourite fairy tales from childhood. Storybook pages abound with all manner of magic: fantastical fairies, wish-granting genies, or even a certain boy wizard.

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

I love fantasy. I grew up reading fantasy.

I am a fan of magic and fantasy, particularly when it's grounded in reality.

I like fantasy.

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

When I am writing, I do not distinguish between the natural and supernatural. Everything seems real. That is my world, you could say.

In creating the Harry Potter artwork, I try to bring a certain amount of realism and believability to the characters and setting, but still add an element of wonder and the unknown.

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.

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

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

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.

After being in Harry Potter, I believe a bit more in magic than I did before.

I could never write about strange kingdoms. I could never do 'Harry Potter' or anything like that. Even when I did science-fiction, I didn't write about foreign planets and distant futures. I certainly never did fantasies about trolls living under bridges.

I am not into the unrealistic realm of magic realism where birds talk.

When I was little, I made up my own fairy tales, and the ghostly echo of 'Once upon a time' shapes all the fiction I've ever written.

I see the world as a magical place. Therefore, it was only natural that magic wafted from my fiction like smoke.

For me, a great fantasy is real people, a world I recognise, human struggle and magic. You've got to have magic to make a fantasy work. But I like my magic to be subtle. I don't want magic coming out of the hands of wizards. I want it to be pervading, sinister somehow.

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

Magic speaks to the child in all of us. No matter how sophisticated we become, there's still a part of us who wants to believe in an alternative reality, where we can defy the laws of nature.

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.