“Death is my art form--when I fight, I'm a ballerina. Graceful. Chi lacks my grace, but makes up for it in energy… — Eliza Crewe Copy Share Image
The unreal is more powerful than the real. Because nothing is as perfect as you can imagine it. Because its only intangible… — Chuck Palahniuk Copy Share Image
I'm a fantasy writer, called a fantasy writer. But there's very little, apart from one or two basic concepts in 'I Shall… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
Lyra learns to her great cost that fantasy isn’t enough. She has been lying all her life, telling stories to people, making… — Philip Pullman Copy Share Image
Adolescence is a time of active deconstruction, construction, reconstruction--a period in which past, present, and future are rewoven and strung together on… — Louise J. Kaplan Copy Share Image
“Lyly screamed and ran to Tyler. “I can’t let you go until I tell you.” “Tell me what?” Tyler asked. “You’re the… — Mary K. Savarese Copy Share Image
“Alice laughed. 'There's no use trying,' she said. 'One can't believe impossible things.' I daresay you haven't had much practice,' said the… — Lewis Carroll Copy Share Image
“I felt so much older now, so much more responsible. I guess that there were some positive outcomes: I knew more things… — Erica Sehyun Song Copy Share Image
Work with good directors. Without them your play is doomed. At the time of my first play, I thought a good director… — Terrence McNally Copy Share Image
I think time is a constraint to destroy and then reinvent. If you give me a constraint, I'll accept it. But I… — Patricia Urquiola Copy Share Image
The refusal to accept that the black presence in Britain has a long and deep history is not just a symptom of… — David Olusoga Copy Share Image
“Very few people know this about me, but I’m a sucker for a good romance. I just don’t usually believe they happen… — Kata Čuić Copy Share Image
“from the upcoming novel, Agent White: A figure dressed all in black ran across the rooftops in the rain. A black cloak… — Michael Kanuckel Copy Share Image
There are plenty of characters of color in fantasy and science fiction. But when you ask the question, "How many of them… — Stephen H. Segal Copy Share Image
“The Wheel of Time turns, and Ages come and pass, leaving memories that become legend. Legend fades to myth, and even myth… — Robert Jordan Copy Share Image
“And finally, I've always drawn a great deal of moral comfort from Humpty Dumpty. The part I like the best? 'All the… — George Carlin Copy Share Image
“(...) Clay knew better. He and Gabriel had been friends for thirty-five years, and Gabe had been talking him into doing recklessly… — Nicholas Eames Copy Share Image
I think that pretty much every form of fiction (I’d include fantasy, obviously) can actually be a real escape from places where… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
I think the tendency to over-explain and over describe is one of the most common failings in fantasy. It's an unfortunate piece… — Patrick Rothfuss Copy Share Image
“Aurelia frowned. "Are you saying that you hang around the women at court to gather intel?" "Oh, Your Grace, you are quick… — Therisa Peimer Copy Share Image
STARING INTO THE ABYSS by Richard Thomas is an outstanding book, a grim tapestry of broken lives and shattered dreams, of dark… — Kealan Patrick Burke Copy Share Image
“You're nothing more than a common bully,' he whispered, voice trembling. I'd shaken him for good now, and it was deeper than… — Danielle Bennett Copy Share Image
“Bah, he still saw the same stupidity. The image of the hanged man in the farming community of Yondern flashed through his… — T.P. Grish Copy Share Image
“Been lickin’ peanut-butter spoons? Maybe I should call you butterfingers. It has a better ring than Hella Shella. - Tran 'Answer my… — Krista Alasti Copy Share Image
“So why hadn’t he confronted me? Why hadn’t he torn through my lies and forced me to own up that I’d caught… — Sam Dogra Copy Share Image
“Perhaps the greatest faculty our minds possess is the ability to cope with pain. Classic thinking teaches us of the four doors… — Patrick Rothfuss Copy Share Image
“It has always been a mystery to me how Adam, Eve, and the serpent were taught the same language. Where did they… — Robert G. Ingersoll Copy Share Image
Speaking of childhood fantasy, we were doing a Western, but we were also just hanging out. You work, and you ride and… — James Badge Dale Copy Share Image
“Border crossing' is a recurrent theme in all aspects of my work -- editing, writing, and painting. I'm interested in the various… — Terri Windling Copy Share Image
I'm not saying that 'Twilight' is, you know, some brilliant Oscar-winner, it's not 'Dr. Zhivago.' It's not trying to be. Because it… — Melissa Rosenberg Copy Share Image
That's a male pornographic fantasy that we're buttoned-up all day and let our boobs hang out at night. The truth is, some… — Cara Santa Maria Copy Share Image
The Tiger's Curse Series has everything my heart could desire in a fantasy: exotic locations, two dashing princes, good vs. evil, the… — Bree Despain Copy Share Image
The young man shivered. He rolled the stock themes of fantasy over in his mind: cars and stockbrokers and commuters, housewives and… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
“it's through the simple things in life, through its games, when our minds mature the most and we grow knowledgeable. It's also… — Evan Meekins Copy Share Image
I don't have this fantasy about marriage anymore. Everyone says it takes hard work. Well, it kind of does -- and I'm… — Jennifer Garner Copy Share Image
“His skin like grey bark, his eyes pale as a winter pool, time and age had worn my father to the bone.… — Jamie Wyman Copy Share Image
(Television) rots the senses in the head! It kills imagination dead! It clogs and clutters up the mind! It makes a child… — Roald Dahl Copy Share Image
“Hammer does not think he will make it through this next winter. His breath comes short in his chest, and it takes… — Amy Lane Copy Share Image
We like people who look good, we like people who elevate our standards, who have things we do not have, it's all… — Emmanuel Benbihy Copy Share Image
“Science fiction and fantasy are very closely related genres, and a lot of people say that the genres are so close that… — Ted Chiang Copy Share Image