Always Quote by Lloyd Alexander

I had been obsessed with the Arthurian legends all my life, and I knew that that would work its way into any trilogy I…

— Guy Gavriel Kay

I was big into mythology when I was a kid - Arthurian legends and Greek mythology, that was kind of my passion. I hadn't…

— Steve Valentine

I definitely read a lot of books on the psychology and mythology behind fairy tales because I think that's really fascinating and there's a…

— Meghan Ory

I have a bit of a love affair with fairy tales and some of the ideas of Irish mythology, like Oscar Wilde and W.B.…

— Hozier

I've always been into having stories told to me. I was a voracious reader, my father was also a teller of tales; and the…

— Damon Lindelof

Fairy tales and folk tales have always played a role in my writing in one way or another.

— Linn Ullmann

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…

— Juliet Marillier

I have been writing fairy tales for as long as I can remember. Not much has changed in terms of my natural attraction to…

— Kate Bernheimer

“Having to amuse myself during those earlier years, I read voraciously and widely. Mythic matter and folklore made up much of that reading—retellings of…

— Charles de Lint

I didn't want to write a pure fantasy novel, though I love those and grew up on J. R. R. Tolkien and Ursula LeGuin.

— Jeff Giles

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

— Lloyd Alexander

All my stories are like the Greek and Roman myths, and the Egyptian myths, and the Old and New Testament.

— Ray Bradbury