Terry Jones Quotes

I love fantasy. I grew up reading fantasy.

I've always loved sci-fi and fantasy.

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

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

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

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 of my work is influenced by fairy tales, and I hope my work shows Hans Christian Anderson's influence.

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 grew up with a lot of fairy tales. And they had an essence of darkness to them.

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

I love the magic of stories and the power 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'm a great believer in fairy tales. I think it is important to have something you can lose yourself in.

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.

Most of my short stories are fantasy.

I love, love, love fantasy, like 'Lord of the Rings' and things like that.

The fantasy genre has so far rather embraced me, and I'm incredibly grateful for that.

As a kid, I loved any fantasy.

Sleepy Hollow had a lot of action in it, even though it was a fairy-tale movie.

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.

As a child, I loved fairy tales because the story, the what-comes-next, is paramount. As an adult, I'm fascinated by their logic and illogic.

Fantasy novels, I don't really gravitate to that part of the bookstore.

What works about fairy tales is that they endure, and the great thing about fairy tales is that you can explore big, epic things that you can't really explore in other situations.

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