Fantasy is no good unless the seed it springs from is a truth, a truth about human beings. — Eudora Welty Copy Share Image
“They have no gods. They work magic, and think they are gods themselves. But they are not. And when they die, they… — Ursula K. Le Guin Copy Share Image
Writing is hard work, but a lot of fun, too. It allows me to live out some of my fantasies. — Christopher Darden Copy Share Image
Children’s literature must build a bridge between the colorful dream world full of fantasy and illusion, and a tougher real world full… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
"[My Beautiful] Dark [Twisted] Fantasy" and "Watch the Throne": neither was nominated for Album of the Year, and I made both of… — Kanye West Copy Share Image
Men are idolaters, and want something to look at and kiss and hug, or throw themselves down before; they always did, they… — Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr Copy Share Image
I have no regrets of fighting for four years to get 'Sordid Lives' on the small screen. It was a fantasy. I… — Del Shores Copy Share Image
It's easy to live in a fantasy world, and that's why I refuse to live in an isolated environment. — Rob Lowe Copy Share Image
It's the fantasy of first love. If you've been married for 400 years, as I have, it's nice to experience first love… — E. L. James Copy Share Image
At the root of Japanese manufacturing lies a feminine delicacy and shyness as well as a childlike curiosity and fantasy-filled worldview. — Morinosuke Kawaguchi Copy Share Image
Writing is the act of creation. Put words on page. Words to sentences, sentences to paragraphs, paragraphs to 7-book epic fantasy cycles… — Chuck Wendig Copy Share Image
For me personally, I think I just enjoy movies about werewolves or vampires because it's not like an everyday thing. It's something… — Agnes Bruckner Copy Share Image
“Reading always calmed me down: filling my head with other - made up - people's problems and conflicts made my own seem… — Heather James Copy Share Image
“Up and down," Meera would sigh sometimes as they walked, "then down and up. Then up and down again. I hate these… — George R.R. Martin Copy Share Image
There is nothing "useful" about fashion, which is why it is fashion and not clothes. My personal opinion about the runway is… — Robin Givhan Copy Share Image
“I wish for all who look for Gold, Shall find one letter less, A world where trying always wins, And leaves the… — Frederic M. Perrin Copy Share Image
Imagine my delight and awe when I discovered such a thing was a real genre - contemporary fantasy or urban fantasy. It… — Maggie Stiefvater Copy Share Image
Love, love, love – all the wretched cant of it, masking egotism, lust, masochism, fantasy under a mythology of sentimental postures, a… — Germaine Greer Copy Share Image
Those who dislike fantasy are very often equally bored or repelled by science. They don't like either hobbits, or quasars; they don't… — Ursula K. Le Guin Copy Share Image
Readers seem to really like the fact that what I'm writing is not traditional fantasy. — N. K. Jemisin Copy Share Image
“Then he was there, turned half toward her with a guarded expression etched across his face. She didn't stop or even slow… — Aprilynne Pike Copy Share Image
“It’s complicated,” I said in defense, hands going up to show surrender. “Talk slowly,” Jenna retorted derisively. “Okay, I deserved that,” I… — Laura Kreitzer Copy Share Image
I think time is a constraint to destroy and then reinvent. If you give me a constraint, I'll accept it. But I… — Patricia Urquiola Copy Share Image
“What are you doing to me?” she gasped. “No more than you are doing to me,” he muttered.” — C.L. Wilson Copy Share Image
In any case, do you really think kids even want something that is relevant to their daily lives? You think something practical… — Paul Lockhart Copy Share Image
My upbringing has been pushing and pulling my work my whole life. At first it pushed me away, as I sought to… — Clayton James Cubitt Copy Share Image
“It is our time, our task and our destiny - from "Opoponax Dreams” — Genieve Dawkins Copy Share Image
It has been a long time since I believed in Reality. I prefer the loveliness and the terror of my subjective experiences… — Sheldon B. Kopp Copy Share Image
“I've no plans to couple with anyone other than my new bride for the next century or so, and it feels as… — Leigh Ann Edwards Copy Share Image
That's a fantasy of mine. We could do every record in a residency. It would be so cool. We could play the… — Mike McCready Copy Share Image
Sometimes I think you have to try to do things that people don't think are doable. I remember at the very beginning… — Michel Hazanavicius Copy Share Image
It was believed by the purveyors of male fantasies in films that nurses were a popular male fantasy because they were caring,… — Stephanie Rothman Copy Share Image
I'm a GM in fantasy basketball and I'm a GM on PlayStation, so on PlayStation I probably would have got a little… — Jalen Rose Copy Share Image
“You’re starting to look like you did before, and that’s not good because what you looked like was complete shit, so get… — Krista Alasti Copy Share Image
The baby sits in front of MTV watching violent fantasies, while Dad guzzles beer with his favorite sport only to find his… — Lou Reed Copy Share Image
“One word came to mind: pee-yew. Evan tried to place the odor; it wasn’t a heap of decayed garbage or that of… — H.B. Bolton Copy Share Image