Rob Thurman Quotes

With my writing, I can still play inside an enchanted castle or live inside an old fort. I can run from ghosts or ride dolphins any day of the week.

I don't think I wrote stories down when I was young, but I certainly made them up, perhaps sometimes losing track of the border between reality and make-believe.

Fantasy is uni-age. You can start it in the creche, and it follows you to death.

I think it's also safe to say genre TV and movies were a big influence - the first stories I ever tried to write were Godzilla fan fiction when I was in elementary school, complete with elaborate maps of Monster Island made with multiple sheets of typing paper and nearly six feet wide. I kind of wish I still had those.

There aren't that many monsters. It's very hard to create a new monster.

I was always an actress, even as a little kid, and fantasy, horror, sci-fi stories are really all about playing make believe. I just never grew out of that.

I had these cheap alien toys and I made up stories for them. They were space pirates. They didn’t have names so I made up names. These were the first stories I wrote. Even as a little kid I was thinking about torture.

Children know perfectly well that unicorns aren’t real, but they also know that books about unicorns, if they are good books, are true books.

Children are natural mythologists: they beg to be told tales, and love not only to invent but to enact falsehoods.

I still think most writers are just kids who refuse to grow up. We're still playing imaginary games, with our imaginary friends.

Kids often ask me if characters are real or made up - and I always tell them, 'I hope they're real but I made them up.'

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 was the kind of kid who was always making up stories and adventures.

Novels are make-believe and play for adults.

Most of my short stories are fantasy.

I always wanted my kids to like me and think I was funny, so I made up this story about a kid named Jake and his racecar that he had built from scratch, fully loaded with whatever fantastical gadget he or I wanted him to have at the moment. I loved making up the stories off the top of my head.

My mother talked about the stories I used to spin as a child of three, before I started school. I would tell this story about what school I went to and what uniform I wore and who I talked to at lunchtime and what I ate, and my mother was like, 'This girl does not even go to school.'

This is what I do for fun - brainstorm about monsters!

When I was a little girl, I loved theater a lot and I was always playing and making my own worlds.

Fiction is such a world of freedom, it's wonderful. If you want someone to fly, they can fly.

I loved the world of imagination.

When I was a kid, I was always going to bed creating a story, and that was the birth of filmmaking for me. I would like going to the dream-state by telling the story to someone else in my mind. That was my imaginary friend; it was an imaginary audience listening to my story.

I absolutely adore working in the realms of fantasy.

When I was a little kid, I told stories.

I loved stories as a kid, both being read to me and enjoying on my own. All these stories inspired my imagination, and that's what I have always aimed at doing for my readers: ignite their imaginations.