Many people with jobs have a fantasy about all the amazing things they would do if they didn't need to work. In… — Paul Buchheit Copy Share Image
Childish fantasy, like the sheath over the bud, not only protects but curbs the terrible budding spirit, protects not only innocence from… — Elizabeth Bowen Copy Share Image
“Do you get the same peace of mind that I do when you're causing random damage? Especially random, senseless, mindless damage that… — Robin Wayne Bailey Copy Share Image
Before my teens, my contemporaries were reading Tolkien and were absorbed by his works, but try as I might, I could not… — Michael Portillo Copy Share Image
I've tried many times to set out the case against the wicked fantasy of 'ADHD,' which usually earns me nothing but ignorant… — Peter Hitchens Copy Share Image
Fantasy is an exercise bicycle for the mind. It might not take you anywhere, but it tones up the muscles that can.… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
“Sad really.” Avenant mused. “Trevelyan was part of a majestic race. Doomed and enslaved by lesser beings, but majestic, none the less.”… — Cassandra Gannon Copy Share Image
“Give me a literary love that doesn't need words, that flows like silent water and speaks to the bone. There I lose… — Julie Harvey Delcourt Copy Share Image
“We deal with so many nightmares on a regular basis. When I’m watching a horror movie, there’s a pattern, a sense of… — Katherine McIntyre Copy Share Image
Hopefully we are emerging from an era of fantasy explanations for real phenomena. The authors certainly have to face a community of… — Patrick David Wall Copy Share Image
“Jace’s husky voice almost came out in a purr. He said, “You want to make a bet on that, Charlie.” Oh yeah,… — J.L. Clayton Copy Share Image
Maybe there's a sense that technology isn't necessarily the answer to a lot of our problems. Fantasy offers readers a less radically… — Lev Grossman Copy Share Image
The end of coal in Appalachia doesn't mean that America is running out of coal (there's plenty left in Wyoming). But it… — Jeff Goodell Copy Share Image
“Because I loved you!" she shouted. "Because I didn't want to let you go! Because I didn't want to lose you!" She… — Airicka Phoenix Copy Share Image
There are, occasionally, writers who are able to combine both story and style. They are, of course, the best. You get a… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
“Being recognized for your efforts… It is an impossible task. People are not particularly interested in efforts of others. Even if they… — Green Tea Copy Share Image
'A Tree Grows in Brooklyn' by Betty Smith is one of my favorites. Even though it doesn't have any monsters or crazy… — Amandla Stenberg Copy Share Image
I have the same fantasy every time I read a book I love, no matter who wrote it, no matter when it… — Adam Langer Copy Share Image
The minute that you bring a unicorn into a story, you know that it's a fairy tale or a fable, because unicorns… — Gloria Vanderbilt Copy Share Image
“Twill be the end of us all when it comes... The moon will devour the sun... The sea will rise in a… — Sam J. Charlton Copy Share Image
Pleasure resorts are like film stars and royalty... embarrassed by the figures they cut in the fantasies of people who have never… — Doris Lessing Copy Share Image
“politicians.’ It is much easier to live with the fantasy, because the fantasy gives meaning to the suffering. Priests discovered this principle… — Yuval Noah Harari Copy Share Image
“Here was the puppeteer who was pulling strings all over the Empire. Didn’t he know that the Fates were the only ones… — Rosie Pugh Copy Share Image
“..There were two undeniable truths in the Realms: It was very easy to overestimate a drow and even easier to underestimate a… — R.A. Salvatore Copy Share Image
I was really sheltered growing up, with six brothers and sisters. We played together all the time, and I was living in… — Edward Enninful Copy Share Image
I loved the 'Lord of the Rings' books, 'The Hobbit.' And my parents, they still don't understand it because they hate fantasy… — Matt Duffer Copy Share Image
I don't really consider my work, on the whole, 'fringe' in my own mind; science fiction and fantasy have been pretty solidly… — Jacqueline Carey Copy Share Image
I would write light entertainment nonfiction pieces during the day, then come home and work on my fantasy fiction. It was very… — Cassandra Clare Copy Share Image
“I walked out of Rhys’s touch—realizing he’d kept silent to let me sort it out. Let me figure out how to deal… — Sarah J. Maas Copy Share Image
Perhaps it is because Venice is both liquid and solid, both air and stone, that it somehow combines all the elements crucial… — Erica Jong Copy Share Image
“The great joy and honour of my life has been to know you. To call you my family. And I am grateful… — Sarah J. Maas Copy Share Image
I have this fantasy. I'm walking past a bookshop and I click my fingers and all my books go blank. So I… — John Banville Copy Share Image
I like science fiction, I like fantasy, I like time travel, so I had this idea: What if you had a phone… — Rainbow Rowell Copy Share Image
Positive self-direction is the action plan that all winners in life use to turn imagination into reality, fantasy into fact, and dreams… — Denis Waitley Copy Share Image
If you're building a fantasy world that exists outside of the rules of our real world, why would you write it to… — Lachlan Watson Copy Share Image
“Maybe they were born of karma, their own or their parents', Zack thought; maybe the universe had a purpose for them, and… — Jackie Trippier Holt Copy Share Image
Sci-fi and fantasy used to be a TV staple throughout my childhood. Then it just stopped dead. It was seen as culty,… — Mark Gatiss Copy Share Image
I'd love to do a noir. I think Steve McQueen is so cool. But a classic film is a classic film, and… — Benedict Cumberbatch Copy Share Image
“Knowledge is not obtained through being absorbed in a book, it comes when you brush aside fantasies and sensuality, switching from the… — Michael Bassey Johnson Copy Share Image
“On a scale ranging from very little to too much, Merkin could just about categorize the amount of personal data stored in… — Sorin Suciu Copy Share Image
