Rick Riordan Quotes

If it involved giants on any level, as a kid I was really wrapped up in that.

Mermaids are just the most whimsical, mystical creatures of all time.

He grinned. “That’s because pixies are ever-after. We’re magic, baby. Just ask Matalina.

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.

Coming back from doing 'The Hobbit,' you think 'Sherlock' is realistic, but of course, it's not that realistic.

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

I don't know what to think about magic and fairy tales.

I would try to write 'realistic' fiction, and someone would fly, or there would be a black hole full of demons or a girl who attracted frogs.

I'd love a werebear. But I guess you need that seductive element of danger. And though bears can be dangerous, when you say werebear it just sounds kind of cuddly. Probably has a rainbow on his belly.

The 'Heirs of Alexandria' series mixes the Renaissance with magic and demons, based on a changed theological history.

Do you believe in fairies? Say quick that you believe. If you believe, clap your hands!

I love fairy tales because of their haunting beauty and magical strangeness. They are set in worlds where anything can happen. Frogs can be kings, a thicket of brambles can hide a castle where a royal court has lain asleep for a hundred years, a boy can outwit a giant, and a girl can break a curse with nothing but her courage and steadfastness.

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.

With 'Game of Thrones' you're not really dealing with anything that is based in reality. You have dragons and magic and all of that.

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

There is art and beauty and power in the primal images of fantasy.

We actually say in 'Nightbreed,' 'God is an astronaut, Oz is over the rainbow, and Midian is where the monsters go.' There's a lovely sense in which there's a simple thesis being played out here. These are things you understand as a child out on the play yard.

'True Blood' was the most amazing adventure of my life; I met some of my best friends.

There aren't that many monsters. It's very hard to create a new monster.

I had a lot of fun playing a naagin. It is all fantasy, so it was great.

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.

As a kid, it was always my dream to open a closet and end up fighting dragons or battling aliens.

I need to be believe that dragons are real. I want them be a real thing.

Anything that has a dragon, a wand, pixie dust, fairies, magic, any of that, I love it. I'm obsessed with it, I will read it, I will watch it, I will commit it to memory.

I am especially fascinated with mermaids, and they are always coming out in pirate stories.