I grew up a really nerdy kid. I read science fiction and fantasy voraciously, for the first 16 years of my life.… — Jon Spaihts Copy Share Image
Imagine an American Hans Christian Andersen, conceive of the Brothers Grimm living in Missouri, and you will approximate Howard Schwartz, a fable-maker… — Cynthia Ozick Copy Share Image
People are distracted by objects of desire, and afterwards repent of the lust they've indulged, because they have indulged with a phantom… — Rumi Copy Share Image
“The UFOs were nothing more than the collective fantasies of a stressed out society... The world into which UFOs had appeared was… — Thomm Quackenbush Copy Share Image
“Victor wrapped his fingers over my hand, pressing his face against my palm. “You’re the bravest girl I’ve ever met. I’m so… — A.B.Whelan Copy Share Image
I knew I wanted to be an actor when I was very young. I guess I was about 6 years old at… — Nicolas Cage Copy Share Image
“The world rides through space on the back of a turtle. This is one of the great ancient world myths, found wherever… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
“satirical against those who called him an escapist for creating the fantastic world of Middle-earth: "The notion that motor-cars are more 'alive'… — Ralph C. Wood Copy Share Image
I think for the women of today, because we work and go around a lot, Armani is ideal - simple and elegant… — Sophia Loren Copy Share Image
“What happened yesterday was a mistake, but it’s over now. In the past, I’ve forgotten it, and so should you.” His brows… — C.L. Wilson Copy Share Image
Looking at it, I started crying. Maybe it was knowing that I had to give up the fantasy, the enormous life consuming… — Eve Ensler Copy Share Image
People will get tired of overly retouched images soon and they'll want something different. If people have too much reality, they want… — David LaChapelle Copy Share Image
“Amelia envisaged that between York and the royal-infested Scottish Highlands there was a grimy wasteland of derelict cranes and abandoned mills and… — Kate Atkinson Copy Share Image
“I may not have journeyed to other lands, but a trip through the fairy glade is a journey few others have taken,… — Leigh Ann Edwards Copy Share Image
“He was looking for a brightness, a resolve, a triumph over tomorrow that hardly seemed to be there. Perhaps he had expected… — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
“The fantastic in literature doesn't exist as a challenge to what is probable, but only there where it can be increased to… — Lars Gustafsson Copy Share Image
People create the illusion of acting natural, which is what I think most documentarians do in part because of the direct cinema… — Joshua Oppenheimer Copy Share Image
“If realistic fiction is primarily metonymic, fantasy is inescapably metaphoric; because the presence of the impossible blocks a literal reading, we are… — Brian Attebery Copy Share Image
Ninety-nine per cent of traditional English literature concerns people who never have to worry about money at all. We always seem to… — James Kelman Copy Share Image
Glamour's my thing. The glamour is what got me into this business in the first place. I lived in a fantasy world… — Theresa Randle Copy Share Image
Here is the tragedy of theology in its distilled essence: The employment of high-powered human intellect, of genius, of profoundly rigorous logical… — Andrew Bernstein Copy Share Image
Anything that happens after I write a song...that's fine with me. It's up to the listener to read into it what they… — Guy Clark Copy Share Image
When adults come together to form an intimate relationship, each person releases into it unresolved issues from their trans-generational pool of unconscious… — Joan Raphael-Leff Copy Share Image
“He does seem rather taken with you,” Jacques said, almost sending Ignatius off bleating with laughter. The man sounded quite perplexed and… — Sharon Maria Bidwell Copy Share Image
The ulterior motives with which you absorb and assimilate Evil are not your own but those of Evil. The animal wrests the… — Franz Kafka Copy Share Image
“There are... otherwise quite decent people who are so dull of nature that they believe that they must attribute the swift flight… — E.T.A. Hoffmann Copy Share Image
Poetry restores language by breaking it, and I think that much contemporary writing restores fantasy, as a genre of writing in contrast… — Michael Cisco Copy Share Image
“Don't come, I was thinking now. Wherever you are, stay there. Because with her reduced to a fantasy, I could imagine a… — Scott Adlerberg Copy Share Image
We live under continual threat of two equally fearful, but seemingly opposed destinies: unremitting banality and inconceivable terror. It is fantasy, served… — Susan Sontag Copy Share Image
“I saw sadness when I looked at what was left of them. The demigods who had once controlled the heavens had been… — Mary E. Pearson Copy Share Image
“As we drifted away from the Tower Bridge, I saw a single silhouette standing against the bright lamplight. Even now when I… — Erica Sehyun Song Copy Share Image
“He was talking. I tried not to think of how he looked and instead of what he was telling me. Once I… — Lindy Zart Copy Share Image
Childhood is usually identified with fantasy, adventure, and dreaming. But mine didn't offer a lot of hope. I could read my future… — Luljeta Lleshanaku Copy Share Image
Fantasy novels give this illusion that the stakes are as high as they feel when you're a teenager. But I think for… — Leigh Bardugo Copy Share Image
“He tried to remember Moon Child's eyes, but was no longer able to. He was sure of only one thing: that her… — Michael Ende Copy Share Image
I read mostly historical fiction - lots of stuff set in ancient Rome and ancient Greece. I also liked sci-fi and fantasy:… — Henry Cavill Copy Share Image
“Critics and academics have been trying for forty years to bury the greatest work of imaginative fiction in English. They ignore it,… — Ursula K. Le Guin Copy Share Image
“I’m going to tell you something once and then whether you die is strictly up to you," Westley said, lying pleasantly on… — William Goldman Copy Share Image
First, hugely popular and talented romance/dark fantasy author Meljean Brook gives a really deep, wonderful story. She's clearly spent so much time… — Gail Simone Copy Share Image
Anything other than free enterprise always means a society of compulsion and lower living standards, and any form of socialism strictly enforced… — Llewellyn Rockwell Copy Share Image
