Begins Quote by David Eddings

After I'd been in college for a couple years I'd read Shakespeare and Frost and Chaucer and the poets of the Harlem Renaissance. I'd…

— Patrick Rothfuss

I have an unconscious burglar living in my mind: If I read something, it's mine. I can read Middle English stories, Geoffrey Chaucer or…

— David Eddings

From as far back as I can remember, I always loved the King Arthur stories, fairy tales, mythology - things like that. So it…

— Lloyd Alexander

Most of my books have been written in the form of fantasy.

— Lloyd Alexander

Contemporary fantasists all bow politely to Lord Tennyson and Papa Tolkien, then step around them to go back to the original texts for inspiration--and…

— David Eddings

“I’ve read science fiction and fantasy all my life – though when you’re a child, they just call that “books.” The first book I…

— Catherynne M. Valente

At its best, fantasy rewards the reader with a sense of wonder about what lies within the heart of the commonplace world. The greatest…

— Patricia A. McKillip

One of my ambitions has been to go back to what those great authors were doing then ... to bridge that sensibility of old…

— Carlos Ruiz Zafon

“I've been very influenced by folklore, fairy tales, and folk ballads, so I love all the classic works based on these things -- like…

— Terri Windling

I've always loved reading fantasy. I used to pick out all the books in the library that had the little unicorn sticker on the…

— Maggie Stiefvater

My attraction to story is a ceaseless current that runs through the center of me. My inexhaustible ardor for reading seems connected to my…

— Pat Conroy

I read mostly fiction, a lot of 19th-century novels.

— Ken Follett