Terry Pratchett Quotes

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.

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.

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.

I like fantasy.

Fairy-tales are nice.

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

I love fantasy; I love imagination - that's the inner child in me.

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

I love fantasy. I grew up reading fantasy.

For me, art is make-believe. It's enchantment. It's a fable. I'm enjoying that and playing with it. Of course it's serious, and art is serious, but I'm not going to rarefy it.

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.

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

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

I definitely love fantasy and would want to be in a fantasy project.

I absolutely adore working in the realms of fantasy.

As a kid, I loved any fantasy.

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

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.

Faeries are associated with wild untamed nature, with art, and with death - so the folklore is rich with different stories to explore.

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

Fairy tales were important to me. Aren't they for any kid? My sister says I spent a good five years of my youth convinced I would grow up to be a princess.

The more you can create that magic bubble, that suspension of disbelief, for a while, the better.