Cameron Dokey Quotes

A well-composed book is a magic carpet on which we are wafted to a world that we cannot enter in any other way.

Every book that you pick up takes you a step away from your real world, but if you read a book about magic, it takes you an extra two steps.

The magic of Disneyland, walking through the tunnel underneath the train station to Main Street, it just transports you to other places and other times.

I'm a great believer in fairy tales. I think it is important to have something you can lose yourself in.

It's not magic that takes us to another world - it's storytelling.

I had this desire to see the world. I couldn't see any of it, but I saw it in my imagination, and that's why I always read books, and I could go to Mars or Middle Earth or the Hyborian age.

The great dream merchant Disney was a success because make-believe was what everyone seemed to need in a spiritually empty land.

To begin with, I want to tell a good story, a story that people will listen to and that they'll think this is true, even if it is a story that might be defined as - as myth or legend or even fanciful.

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.

I like fantasy.

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

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

I had two little daughters - I think they were 7 and 4 at the time - and I said, 'I'll write you a story. What do you want it to be about?' One of them said 'a princess' and the other one said 'a bride.' I said, 'That'll be the title.'

If a fantasy, if a story can help you feel something, I think that's really cool.

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

Magic has universal appeal. I don't believe in magic in the way that I describe in my books, but I'd love it to be real.

And so he was reading the story as if it were a spell and the words of it, spoken aloud, could make magic happen.

Magic is at the core of myths.

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.

To tell the truth, fairytales have never gone out of style. They have been told and retold for thousands of years, finding new shapes and structures with each new generation of tellers.

I am your fairy tale. Your dream. Your wishes and desires, and I am your thirst and your hunger and your food and your drink.

I wanted to make sure that 'Up' wasn't a 3D movie about a man who sails his house to South America. It's a movie about an old man who sails his house to South America that also happens to be in 3D. So the first thing is always the story.

The Polar Express is about faith, and the power of imagination to sustain faith. It's also about the desire to reside in a world where magic can happen, the kind of world we all believed in as children, but one that disappears as we grow older.

I love fantasy. I grew up reading fantasy.