I just like magical, fantastical stuff. I don't really see…

A lot of times, real life is more surreal than writing.

— Jesmyn Ward

I grew up loving fantasy, adventure, and children's book series. At the time, I was in a place in LA where I wasn't working…

— Hale Appleman

I think that's what a lot of writers do, create a totally fantastical scenario that is a reflection of something else going on in…

— Matt Bellamy

If I dream I have you, I have you, for all our joys are but fantastical.

— John Donne

Much of hip-hop, like comic books, is fantastical by nature, too.

— Ali Shaheed Muhammad

You can't have the word 'fantasy' or 'fantastical' without a contrast. It has to stem from a grounded experience.

— Josh Trank

The stories I write are often literal to events that have happened or observations that I've made, and sometimes they're fantastical.

— Mark Mothersbaugh

“Sometimes life is fantastical, and other times you have to find fantastic inside of the boring parts and yes, even the pain.”

— Marilyn Grey

...the thrill of being surrounded by something wondrous and fantastical, only magnified and focused directly at her. The feel of his skin against hers…

— Erin Morgenstern

You have to tell a super story that has some fantastical element, but the human element is what's going to keep people watching.

— Cheo Hodari Coker

I surround myself with fantastical things because it makes it a little easier to write fantastical stories.

— Seanan McGuire

We love creating these fantastical worlds, and that really comes from things like 'Strawberry Fields Forever' and 'I Am The Walrus.'

— Kemp Muhl

Good sci-fi and fantasy use fantastical situations to represent real-life issues. It really is all a metaphor for what we all go through as…

— Stella Maeve

I just like that balance of the real and the fantastical because as a reader and consumer of stories and fantasy, I always want…

— Ransom Riggs

He is only fantastical that is not in fashion.

— Robert A. Burton