Seanan McGuire Quotes

'The Lion' all began with a picture of a faun carrying an umbrella and parcels in a snowy wood. This picture had been in my mind since I was about sixteen. Then one day, when I was about forty, I said to myself, 'Let's try to make a story about it.'

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.

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

Imagination is the key to my lyrics. The rest is painted with a little science fiction.

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.

Fantasy is my heart and love. And I just want to play in that garden for the rest of my life.

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

When I turned to writing fantasy, and writing for young people, it was joyous. It was like discovering an underground lake of ideas that went on forever.

Fantasy is the only canvas large enough for me to paint on.

Fiction makes your dreams come true, and, as a writer, fiction allows you to delve into the area of miracles.

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.

I think that sense of wonderment, where you walk out expecting the ordinary and are confronted by the extraordinary, is something that has always interested me, whether in TV or comic books.

A book suggests a whole world and story that I could have never thought of in a million years.

'Fire and Hemlock' is the reason I'm a writer.

I've been falsely accused of drawing too much from real life. But I am a petty thief - I take little things. And, I mean, I can hardly write 10 words before I start to make things up. I start to invent, because that's what I want to do. I'm running away to an invented place.

Fantasy is my genre and my home in the writing world. I consider it the biggest writing room in all literature, where there are literally no boundaries at all.

Most of my short stories are fantasy.

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

Sometimes I feel that the people I'm writing are more real to me than the people around me. When you take that imaginative leap, you're living so much in that world.

I'd listen to all the stuff that was going on around me and drift off into my fantasies about it. My fantasies have fuelled all the songs I've ever written.

I absolutely adore working in the realms of fantasy.

As a kid, I loved any fantasy.

Truth titillates the imagination far less than fiction.