The most important thing for any aspiring writer, is to read! And not just the sort of thing you're trying to write,… — George R. R. Martin Copy Share Image
When I do get to chow down on a book, I try to read ones that are nothing like what I'm writing.… — Charles Stross Copy Share Image
“Even if they are fictional, I always thought that mermaids were beautiful creatures. Of course, they don’t compare to you, but still…” — Daniele Lanzarotta Copy Share Image
“You will do as you are told the second you are told to do it. Is that clear?' 'I'm not six mother,… — Heather James Copy Share Image
“That werewolf fantasy would be a hard one to pull off. She'd have to troll through the forest in high heels, just… — Victoria Dahl Copy Share Image
Don't use metaphors in fantasy; your readers will take them literally. Or they may take them figuratively - but if so, they'll… — Teresa Nielsen Hayden Copy Share Image
I don't have a specific message for 'The Grace of Kings' and the sequels in mind other than wanting to challenge some… — Ken Liu Copy Share Image
All real fantasy is serious. Only faked fantasy is not serious. That is why it is so wrong to impose faked fantasy… — Robertson Davies Copy Share Image
All the material is fictional and develops its own eight and a half private, coelesced journeys, where, perhaps not unexpectedly, the females… — Peter Greenaway Copy Share Image
We often represent God to ourselves as being able to draw from non-being a world without sorrows, faults, dangers - a world… — Pierre Teilhard de Chardin Copy Share Image
I come from a nation where fantastic fiction has a very low status, unless it fits into some very specific categories or… — Karin Tidbeck Copy Share Image
I love the combination of smartness, pain, and what one might call conscious postmodern trashiness in this book: a version of the… — Alicia Ostriker Copy Share Image
'Hot Fuss' was all based on fantasy. The English influences, the makeup - they were what I imagined rock was. I'm a… — Brandon Flowers Copy Share Image
I always hated those fantasy books where, at the end, all the kids had to go home. At the end of a… — Lev Grossman Copy Share Image
Part of the problem is that many directors treat female characters too often as precious. Or they want to live in a… — David Leitch Copy Share Image
Ultimately, all I wanted was for players to feel like they were in the real world. I wanted them to be able… — Warren Spector Copy Share Image
“The old sorceress was not given to berating herself herself, but she could not help but think she had made a mistake.… — Vivian French Copy Share Image
There's a lot of dark horror, and a lot of sci-fi fantasy that's great, but what gets hyped a lot the big… — Robert Englund Copy Share Image
In beauty of face no maiden ever equaled her. It was the radiance of an opium-dream - an airy and spirit-lifting vision… — Edgar Allan Poe Copy Share Image
When we traded the results of our fantasies, it seemed to us-and rightly-that we had proceeded by unwarranted associations, by shortcuts so… — Umberto Eco Copy Share Image
Sometimes we just want to hold on to the fantasy of LOVE holding on to empty promises. We make BAD decisions that… — Kevin McCarty Copy Share Image
So rich people could go slumming? Come on, give me a break [it’s a] masturbatory fantasy for Anna Wintour and Vogue. They… — Legs McNeil Copy Share Image
If the melody is telling me this is what the song is about, then I'm sort of forced into confession, autobiography or… — Ben Folds Copy Share Image
I feel that I have an impractical and deleterious snobbery about the relation of literature to the market. I thought, 'I've become… — Claire Messud Copy Share Image
“Thus came Aragorn son of Arathorn, Elessar, Isildur's heir, out of the Paths of the Dead, borne upon a wind from the… — J.R.R. Tolkien Copy Share Image
I believe almost every men have some kind of fantasy for action scenes. I'm one of them, and I just can't be… — Joo Won Copy Share Image
I admire hard-bitten, wisecracking realism of Ida Lupino and the film noir heroines. I'm sick of simpering white girls with their princess… — Camille Paglia Copy Share Image
“Instead, their storybook marriage had a dark chapter. A villainess side character, who remained stuck in-between the pages of their beloved fairy… — Kristina Stangl Copy Share Image
When you hear 'I Luv U,' that's me doing Three 6 Mafia. That actual track is a mix of 'What's Your Fantasy?'… — Dizzee Rascal Copy Share Image
I'm a big fan of the '80s fantasy genre that I grew up watching, movies like "Krull" and "Clash of the Titans"… — Zooey Deschanel Copy Share Image
I think there is a long exploration in American drama of women in particular who, by force of circumstances or because they… — Cate Blanchett Copy Share Image
“If you don't leave room for the unexpected to express itself in your life, you close yourself off from the possibility of… — Robert Stikmanz Copy Share Image
My fantasy is to have a restaurant where there are no written menus, but where you just ask people, 'What are you… — Charlie Trotter Copy Share Image
The whole idea of doing the Hollywood thing never even occurred to me. When you grow up on the East coast, Hollywood… — David Steinberg Copy Share Image
Fantasy films tend to skew towards what Tolkien fantasy was, which is that the humans, the Hobbits and the cute creatures are… — Duncan Jones Copy Share Image
There are times when the mind is dealt such a blow it hides itself in insanity. While this may not seem beneficial,… — Patrick Rothfuss Copy Share Image
“What's a horse doing on a spaceship" "What's pre-revolutionary France doing on a spaceship? Mickey, get a little perspective!" Dr. Who "The… — Stephen Moffat Copy Share Image
I have this fantasy of relaxing and doing nothing. But I'm obviously very passionate about stand-up comedy. I mean, I keep doing… — Ali Wong Copy Share Image
“Next time when I dive into the territory that I had lived next to, where my sister grew up, I know what… — Erica Sehyun Song Copy Share Image
There's always been this strand of filmmaking in Britain which is like socialist neo-realism. That's always been there. I've never been part… — John Boorman Copy Share Image
![“So rich people could go slumming? Come on, give me a break [it’s a] masturbatory fantasy for Anna Wintour and Vogue. They always go and try to co-opt what they can’t own. They try to co-opt authenticity and turn it into something boring.” quote by Legs McNeil](https://sms4smile.com/q/i/070/legs-mcneil-32249_anna_so-rich-people-could-go-slumming-come-on_303664.jpg)
