There is something old and true in fantasy that speaks to something deep within us, to the child who dreamt that one… — George R. R. Martin Copy Share Image
“The finished clock is resplendent. At first glance it is simply a clock, a rather large black clock with a white face… — Erin Morgenstern Copy Share Image
“Funny isn't it, that such a large percentage of people believe in the possibility of ghosts yet scoff at stories about then;… — D.L. Koontz Copy Share Image
Captain Fantastic touches on that [division]. You meet this family that lives off the grid in the woods and you go, "Oh,… — Viggo Mortensen Copy Share Image
“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… — Joe Fassler Copy Share Image
“To love, to live, to feel so much that your world keeps spinning, faster and faster, in that wonderful, chaotic mess of… — Sophia Whittemore Copy Share Image
Speak of the appetite for drink; or of a bon-vivant's relish for dinner! What are these mere animal throes and ragings compared… — Henry Ward Beecher Copy Share Image
“HARV appeared in front of me, arms crossed, head tilted. “You really should read your e-mails from Randy more carefully,” he lectured.… — John Zakour Copy Share Image
“We may say that the characters in fairytales are ‘good to think with’…[and that] the job of the fairytale is to show… — Brian Wicker Copy Share Image
I know what was happening to me during the 2012 London Olympics. I was in a fantasy world. You look this side,… — P. R. Sreejesh Copy Share Image
Karl Marx predicted the eventual withering away of the state and the 'dictatorship of the proletariat,' when the people would rule, which… — David Limbaugh Copy Share Image
“He thought he was walking along a dusty road that showed white in the gathering darkness of a summer night. Whence and… — Ambrose Bierce Copy Share Image
There's no free lunch. If you want an industrial economy, you need energy. If you want energy, it will produce pollution. You… — Charles Krauthammer Copy Share Image
At its best, fiction cultivates fantasy and compassion; at its worst, memoir provokes schadenfreude and prurience. The ugly truth, I fear, is… — Julia Glass Copy Share Image
It was apparent to me that religion was an invented thing, a wish-fulfillment thing, a fantasy thing. It was much more real,… — David Cronenberg Copy Share Image
“There was still a bit of sunshine in the sky, not that it mattered. High treetops and reaching branches entombed us from… — Thomas McClellan Copy Share Image
“I would like [my readers] to better understand human beings and human life as a result of having read [my] stories. I'd… — Gene Wolfe Copy Share Image
There is no nobler chore in the craft of writing than holding up the mirror of reality and turning it slightly, so… — Harlan Ellison Copy Share Image
This is where we are at right now, as a whole. No one is left out of the loop. We are experiencing… — Bill Hicks Copy Share Image
“When people dis fantasy—mainstream readers and SF readers alike—they are almost always talking about one sub-genre of fantastic literature. They are talking… — China Miéville Copy Share Image
“I don’t want you.” He moved so quickly she barely had time to gasp before he lifted her off her feet, fused… — C.L. Wilson Copy Share Image
When we really start searching for the truth in stories, we can find it everywhere, not just in sincere confessions but in… — Joanna Scott Copy Share Image
The paradox is that, by children taking shortcuts through computer games, through fantasies, through movies that load on all the emotional stimulation… — E. O. Wilson Copy Share Image
At all ages, if [fantasy and myth] is used well by the author and meets the right reader, it has the same… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“The Ancestral Trail was split into two-halves of 26 issues each. The first half takes place in the Ancestral World and describes… — Frank Graves Copy Share Image
The evil in question reappears in the world after you vanquish it, often within mere minutes, and the world as a whole… — Lore Sjoberg Copy Share Image
“... all sorts of wonderful things got washed up on the beach – crates of clothes and cutlery and children’s toys, boxes… — Rosie Pugh Copy Share Image
“We are Knights of the Trinity, Angels of the Third Realm of Heaven Warriors of The Almighty Defenders of Righteousness, Truth. And… — J.B. Lion Copy Share Image
“I’m fucking asking you!” The man stood his ground. From the corner of his eye Adam could see the other man getting… — Max Nowaz Copy Share Image
Most children would rather preserve the fantasy of a loving connection with their fathers and mothers, at all costs, even if it… — Keith Ablow Copy Share Image
My sister was actually more of the sci-fi/fantasy person. I wasn't into it as much, although I think it allows you to… — Kristin Kreuk Copy Share Image
“While I have the floor, here's a question that's been bothering me for some time. Why do so few writers of heroic… — David Brin Copy Share Image
“Theologians, and religionists in general, start with a fantasy premise and then proceed to apply rigorous formal logic to tease out its… — Andrew Bernstein Copy Share Image
All entertainment is an element of fantasy because you are seeing something that is not quite real. There is no such thing… — Bruce Campbell Copy Share Image
I think people are more apt to believe photographs, especially if it’s something fantastic. They’re willing to be more gullible. Sometimes they… — Cindy Sherman Copy Share Image
Basically, Urban Fantasy means D&D in New York. Ordinary people have no idea that they share the world with fantastic, supernatural creatures.… — Ted Naifeh Copy Share Image
“If only life were more on the scale of Orlando Bloom taking down the giant Oliphaunt in The Return of the King… — Sarah Arthur Copy Share Image
I want the pleasures of the real exploitation movie, and exploitation has changed so much in 40 years. Plenty of people grow… — Andrew Bujalski Copy Share Image
“Her unexpected outburst rocked Flaminius to his core. Suddenly, she didn't seem so angelic. Her face twisted with rage; veins in her… — Therisa Peimer Copy Share Image
“Now, it’s undeniably true that male writers (including yours truly) are generally and commercially allowed to write about “girl stuff” without being… — Scott Lynch Copy Share Image
![“Captain Fantastic touches on that [division]. You meet this family that lives off the grid in the woods and you go, "Oh, it's some kind of liberal utopian fantasy. The enemy is gonna be all these conservative types that they'll probably run into, and that's going to be the story."” quote by Viggo Mortensen](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/ce1/viggo-mortensen-1554_captains_captain-fantastic-touches-on-that-divisi_515618.jpg)
![“We may say that the characters in fairytales are ‘good to think with’…[and that] the job of the fairytale is to show that Why? questions cannot be answered except in one way: by telling the stories. The story does not contain the answer, it is the answer.” quote by Brian Wicker](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/3b7/brian-wicker-224654_fairy_we-may-say-that-the-characters-in-fairyt_2713569.jpg)
![“I would like [my readers] to better understand human beings and human life as a result of having read [my] stories. I'd like them to feel that this was an experience that made things better for them and an experience that gave them hope. I think that the kind of things that we talk about at this…” quote by Gene Wolfe](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/010/gene-wolfe-2530_books_i-would-like-my-readers-to-better-unders_1168633.jpg)
![“At all ages, if [fantasy and myth] is used well by the author and meets the right reader, it has the same power: to generalize while remaining concrete, to present in palpable form not concepts or even experiences but whole classes of experience, and to throw off irrelevancies. Bat at its best it…” quote by Anonymous](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/9c5/anonymous-1_add_at-all-ages-if-fantasy-and-myth-is-used_1976082.jpg)
