Busy Quote by Patrick Rothfuss

“I've been actively engaged with mythic imagery ever since I picked up that Rackham book, but it really came into focus for me when…

— Brian Froud

“But I'm collecting the story of his life. The real story.' Chronicler made a helpless gesture. 'Without the dark parts it's just some silly…

— Patrick Rothfuss

“The Faerie Queene was intended by its author to be a philosophical poem and was so regarded by his contemporaries and immediate successors, whose…

— Janet Spens

“Know, Goodwife, that Faerie is shaped by storytellers. Their fantasies, their dreams give my realm life. We were dying, all of us, from the…

— Eugie Foster

I do a lot of urban fantasy, which is modern-day cities, but you've got magic, you've got fairies running around, or cryptozoological creatures running…

— Seanan McGuire

The tales of Elfland do not stand or fall on their actuality but on their truthfulness, their speaking to the human condition, the longings…

— Jane Yolen

None of [the books are] worth reading. There are no fairy tales, no faerie tails, no sword-swinging princesses or lightning-throwing gods.

— Laurie Halse Anderson

“If we believe faeries are real, it brings a sense of magic to our very boring, difficult, everyday lives. It gives us a glimpse…

— Daley Downing

“Faerie is a perilous land, and in it are pitfalls for the unwary and dungeons for the overbold...The realm of fairy-story is wide and…

— Anonymous

Once upon a time, I thought faeries lived only in books, old folktales, and the past. That was before they burst upon my life…

— Brian Froud

“If you want to write a fantasy story with Norse gods, sentient robots, and telepathic dinosaurs, you can do just that. Want to throw…

— Patrick Rothfuss

I'm working on something that's not yet novel-shaped but is something of a film-noir-flavored 'Alice in Wonderland.' It will also very likely be a…

— Erin Morgenstern