If you're an only child, you spend a lot of time by yourself, and you develop a strong ability to entertain yourself, to conjure up fantasy.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
Imagination in the child is powerful. Reading and laughter and love are essential in our lives.
Fantasy is a necessary ingredient in living, it's a way of looking at life through the wrong end of a telescope, and that enables you to laugh at life's realities.
Research has shown that children who play often both solitarily and socially become more creative and imaginative than those whose exposure to play and toys is limited.
I realized that everything I do is fantasy, whether it is an adult movie or a kids movie.
The state of childhood resonates with life inside a fantasy novel. If you have no control over how you spend large chunks of your day, or are at the mercy of flawed giant beings, then the desire to bend the laws of the world by magic is strong and deep.
Many children are natural fantasists, I think, perhaps because their imaginations have yet to be clobbered into submission by experience.
As a kid, I loved any fantasy.
Children do not give up their innate imagination, curiosity, dreaminess easily. You have to love them to get them to do that.
I guess one of the most magnificent things a novel can do is to change your perspective on the world, and to give it some sense of wonder, and that's what I find so exciting in writing fantasy, especially fantasy for children. Because already, I think children have a very special and unusual way of seeing the world.
Fantasy is uni-age. You can start it in the creche, and it follows you to death.