I am magicking as fast as I can!” - Gwydion

“I've been called many things in my time, but never a conduit of divinity- Cedric MacKinnon, My Fearful Symmetry”

— Denise Verrico

“My heart almost vaulted out of my chest. I was snuggled against Ryan’s shoulder. We were burrowed under the cloak and sleeping bag, and…

— Sam Dogra

“If you see the dragon fly, best you drink the flagon dry.” —Zarost”

— Greg Hamerton

So much of the way books get classified has to do with marketing decisions. I think it's more useful to think of literary books…

— Karen Russell

“The dead can forgive. The dead can be forgiven. The rest of us have better things to do. (Monza Murcatto)”

— Joe Abercrombie

A child who can love the oddities of a fantasy book cannot possibly be xenophobic as an adult. What is a different color, a…

— Jane Yolen

Fantasy is silver and scarlet, indigo and azure, obsidian veined with gold and lapis lazuli.

— George R. R. Martin

If your entire conception of what's possible in fantasy only comes from other fantasy books, you're going to go on to create a copy…

— Kameron Hurley

“I do tasks for the gods, usually things like tracking down rare items or taking someone safely to a destination." D'Molay the Freeman Tracker”

— M.Scott Verne

“It all started when Dam went missing.”

— Andrew J. Peters

“Would you like me to put you out of your misery, before I put you out of your misery?”

— Paul Cude

The way I felt growing up, which was like an outcast - I was weird, I was a nerd, I read fantasy books -…

— Sabaa Tahir

I grew up feeling voiceless and powerless as a kid. I turned to books - fantasy books in particular - to give me comfort.…

— Sabaa Tahir

“Have no fear, mortal. You are a friend of the gods and of my kin. I will show restraint and not consume you. Yet.”

— K.V. Wilson

“My love...you were insolent to a dragon? Please tell me that I misheard you just now.”

— Aida Jacobs