Fantasy Stories Quotes

I found a lot of fairy tales scary. They really didn't sit well with me.

I think we love the escapism of something like 'Cinderella,' and I think we do with 'Thor.'

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

In my perfect world, we'd have one black girl fantasy book every month. We need them, and we need fantasy stories about black boys as well.

Sure, I love fairy tales.

If you look at any ancient civilization, they've all used fantasy stories to train the young.

I love fairy tales.

Edward Eager wrote a series of children's books that are in danger of being forgotten. But they're divine: stories about ordinary kids who stumble on magical things - a coin, a lake, a book, a thyme garden, a well. The magic changes them, they try to change the magic, the magic moves on.

We really liked the magic of 'Harry Potter' and 'The Lord of the Rings,' but we could never figure out where the powers came from.

Well, Company of Wolves was about that literally, about fairy tales.

If there’s a magic pony in the story, chances are I’ll read it.

I love fairy tales because I think that behind fairy tales, there is always a meaning.

And I had always liked vampire stories because they are great material that can be refashioned in lots of ways.

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.

All the ancient classic fairy tales have always been scary and dark.

I wished that, for once, faery tales – real faery tales, not Disney fairy tales – would have a happy ending.

The phenomenon of vampires has always appealed to me. Everyone kind of likes a vampire story because it almost could be true.

I always knew I wanted to write really imaginative fiction - fiction that was very different from my real life.

Twilight' has a supernatural reference to it with werewolves and vampires. 'Harry Potter' has magic. 'The Hunger Games' is about real people put into extreme situations and circumstances.

As a very young writer - kindergarten through about fifth grade - I most often wrote about black characters. My very early stories were science fiction and fantasy, with kids stowing away on spaceships and a girl named Tilly who was trying to get into the 'Guinness Book of World Records.'

I loved fantasy, but I particularly loved the stories in which somebody got out of where they were and into somewhere better - as in the 'Chronicles Of Narnia,' 'The Wizard Of Oz,' 'The Phantom Tollbooth,' the 'Dungeons & Dragons' cartoon on Saturday morning in the '80s.

Every constellation’s like its own fairy tale.

'Adventure Time' tells stories where anything can happen, but what happens is. It stars Finn, a boy who fights evil, and Jake, a dog with stretchy powers. Both of them can talk.

So many of the fantasy stories I encountered growing up were set in worlds that were largely modelled on medieval Europe in one way or another. Lots of white folks in feudal societies, castles and kings, that kind of thing.

If you don't turn your life into a story, you just become a part of someone else's story.