Fantasy Quotes · Page 62

“I think that if Mozart were alive today and decided to become a novelist, he would write humorous fantasy.”

— Frank P. Ryan

“Beware a kiss, he told her. Kisses are powerful things. You expose part of your soul.”

— Ruth Frances Long

When a fantasy turns you on, you're obligated to God and nature to start doing it right away.

— Stewart Brand

I grew up on genre - on Westerns, spy thrillers, sci-fi, fantasy novels, horror novels. Especially horror novels.

— Benjamin Percy

But to me, 'Worlds' is meant as kind of an appreciation of fiction and stories and escapism and fantasy.

— Porter Robinson

There's a very fine line between one person's reality and another person's fantasy.

— Conor Oberst

“In the absence of faith, our dreams will move from feasible aspirations to implausible fantasy.”

— Craig D. Lounsbrough

My biggest fantasy love affair was with Dustin Hoffman. It's so bizarre. Also Anthony Hopkins.

— Debra Messing

I do have a small collection of traditional SF ideas which I've never been able to sell. I'm known as a fantasy…

— Lynn Abbey

Hopelessness sets in, when a man is bound up in his shame -- living small, within that closed horizon of fantasy and…

— Andrew Comiskey

I think there's tremendous power in the images we associate with Russian culture and history, these extremes of beauty and brutality that…

— Leigh Bardugo

“From dreams of bliss shall men awake one day, but not to weep: the dreams remain; they only break the mirror of…

— John Paul Richter

“It may seem odd to say that the men who made the myths disliked the irrational and had a love for facts;…

— Edith Hamilton Mythology

Play and transformation were a bit part of my childhood - using whatever materials were at our disposal, my brothers and I…

— David Rockwell

I could see the works just living in reproductions. The work lives on like fantasy. Some live even better as just an…

— Urs Fischer

“This was no regular dream; this was a waking dream. Who was I? It had to have happened in my lifetime. I…

— B. Truly

My story reflexes come less from fantasy or horror than from the darker sort of psychological thriller - not as plot-driven as…

— Graham Joyce

“People talk about mainstream fiction and sf as though they were two quite different kinds of writing, and fantasy as well, as…

— Angela Carter

As the tide of feminism that crested two decades ago recedes and the old advance-and-retreat games of courtship return, "Pride & Prejudice"…

— Stephen Holden

“But when the wizard is onstage as the main character, you have to adopt what I call the Jack Vance Rule. I…

— John C. Wright

“Down every hall is a gruesome tangle of impossible creatures, and every one of them is split open or strung with barbs…

— Bill Blais

When I write what publishers call 'fantasy' I am writing in what I think is the most important tradition of fiction: starting…

— Janet Morris

I hate superheroes. I always hated superheroes. From the time I was a little kid, I could believe in a 50-foot gorilla…

— Anonymous

While many alternate reality stories ask, 'What might have been?' parallel universe stories literalize the war between good and evil that plays…

— Kameron Hurley

I think I'll give it up, the fantasy is over, I wanted to play Spiderman, Peter Parker.

— George Eads

“Friendship is just love that has yet to sprout wings and take flight.”

— Kristen Reed

Consequences lost all purchase when they became mad. And desperation, when pressed beyond anguish, became narcotic.

— R. Scott Bakker

“I do love you. I love you enough to accept who you are. Why can’t I received the same feeling in return?”…

— Khalia Hades

Of course I was a fan when I was a kid. That's what made me get into it, the whole rock n'…

— Paul Rodgers

[I] have fantasies of killing myself and thus being the powerful one not the powerless one.

— Anne Sexton

No one sets out to write escapism as a film's subject matter unless, maybe, you are making a fantasy flick.

— Rajkumar Hirani

Fantasy is, of course, booming, and I think it's beginning to stretch its range as well.

— Sarah Zettel

“Twango's hospitality, though largely symbolic, does him credit.”

— Jack Vance

“All living things have the ability to flourish when they are tended with gentle hands.”

— Erin Forbes

I aim to tell the truth about any subject, not a romance or fantasy, not avoid the truth.

— Anita Desai

The idea of a film staying in theaters for a year is something of a fantasy today.

— Henry Thomas

When a band means a lot to you, you build the fantasy more than the reality. Always.

— Stephen Malkmus

“I hope to be bowing in front of you for a long time.” He takes my hand, drops to one knee, and…

— Tricia Copeland

I manage to read about one book a month, all fantasy these days.

— Mark Lawrence

Wes Anderson grew up in Houston, and he and I talk about Manhattan in similar ways, as a kind of fantasy world.

— Noah Baumbach