Fantasists aren't natural readers. They grow restive easily.

“I think that it's only natural that readers become writers. You can only learn so much before you have to share it with others.”

— Geary Davis

As writers become more numerous, it is natural for readers to become more indolent.

— Oliver Goldsmith

As writers become more numerous, it is natural for readers to become more indolent; whence must necessarily arise a desire of attaining knowledge with…

— Oliver Goldsmith

Many children are natural fantasists, I think, perhaps because their imaginations have yet to be clobbered into submission by experience.

— David Mitchell

“Many travelers are essentially fantasists. Tourists are timid fantasists, the others - risk takers - are bold fantasists. The tourists at Etosha conjure up…

— Paul Theroux

Our most serious problem, perhaps, is that we have become a nation of fantasists. We believe, apparently, in the infinite availability of finite resources.

— Wendell Berry

Ghetto-dwellers are the great fantasists. There was an extraordinary vibrancy there, an imaginative life. When you are that poor, all you've got left is…

— Ben Okri

“it’s the way he uses language—which is nothing like the way fantasists used language before him. There’s no sense of nostalgia. There’s no medieval…

— Joe Fassler

Contemporary fantasists all bow politely to Lord Tennyson and Papa Tolkien, then step around them to go back to the original texts for inspiration--and…

— David Eddings

A lot of times it's the child that sees something and not the grownup. I love that because, when readers get older, they start…

— Jan Brett

Grabbing readers by the imagination is a writer's job.

— Sara Sheridan

I like to take certain aspects of genre fiction and modify them in my own way. 'Your Republic Is Calling You' follows the form…

— Kim Young-ha

But editors are still the world's readers. And thus the eyes of the world.

— Betsy Lerner

“Tacitus did not write a most dangerous book. His readers made it so.”

— Christopher K. Krebs

“Within the pages of books, I've journeyed to Mandalay, the Milky Way and Santa Fe, without once having to leave my armchair.”

— Kevin Ansbro