Civilization, that great fraud of our times, has promised man that by complicating his existence it would multiply his pleasures. ... Civilization… — Isabelle Eberhardt Copy Share Image
“How ya doing?” Gabby’s face came into view, and she grinned down at me. She’d stopped doing her healing thing, and the… — Laura Kreitzer Copy Share Image
“Today, fantasy is, for better or for worse, just another genre, a place in a bookshop to find books that, too often,… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
Fantasy consists in a morbid fascination with unrealities, which secretly transforms itself into a desire to make them real. Imagination is a… — Roger Scruton Copy Share Image
I'm very naive, and the job was untitled, so I thought it was just another fantasy series. I just don't think there's… — Emma D'Arcy Copy Share Image
'Daughter of Smoke and Bone' is one of my all-time top YA fantasy trilogies, so I was a little nervous about reading… — Sabaa Tahir Copy Share Image
That's when we decided to stop in '66. Everyone thought we toured for years, you know, but we didn't. I joined in… — Ringo Starr Copy Share Image
“He strained his ears, and the darkness felt heavier than before. Oppressive. “We’re hungry.” That came from behind him. “They smell tasty,”… — Laura Kreitzer Copy Share Image
“I just want to matter,' he said, unsmiling. It was like pulling a curtain back, peering behind a mask made of smiles… — Emily Lloyd-Jones Copy Share Image
“Fantasy is like alcohol - too much is bad for you, a little bit makes the world a better place. Like an… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
And then, into the fantasy, as into a dream, would come the thought: it's not like this anymore; the world has changed.… — Claire Messud Copy Share Image
It was a standard fantasy when you fell in love to imagine you could go back in time and find your beloved… — Norman Rush Copy Share Image
“Know this, sivamet-this child will be mine. I will take Vadim's blood from you and exchange it for mine. Eventually, over time,… — Christine Feehan Copy Share Image
“The feelings and the memories and the perceptions in me are my own, they are terrible and secret and if I can… — Kendra L. Saunders Copy Share Image
I developed this fantasy world. I found that that was much more fun and more interesting and exciting than real life was… — Don McLean Copy Share Image
After I'd been in college for a couple years I'd read Shakespeare and Frost and Chaucer and the poets of the Harlem… — Patrick Rothfuss Copy Share Image
“Although now long estranged, Man is not wholly lost nor wholly changed. Dis-graced he may be, yet is not de-throned, and keeps… — J.R.R. Tolkien Copy Share Image
“To me, the best, if not the only function of imaginative writing, is to lead the human imagination outward, to take it… — Clark Ashton Smith Copy Share Image
...the wonderful poems interpreting with equal magic the romance of strange lands and times, or the modern soul, naked and unashamed, as… — Israel Zangwill Copy Share Image
“ I knew then that I would devote every minute we had left together to making her happy, to repairing the pain… — Carlos Ruiz Zafón Copy Share Image
“I sometimes have moments of such despair, such despair … Because in those moments I start to think that I will never… — Fyodor Dostoyevsky Copy Share Image
In the past things were either in your head (subjective, imaginary, fantasy) or else they were part of the outside world -… — Elaine Equi Copy Share Image
I really wish that peoplewould just say, 'Yes, it's a comic. Yes, this is fantasy. Yes, this is Science Fiction,' and defend… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
Fantasy is fantasy. It's fiction. It's not meant to be a textbook. I don't believe in letting research overwhelm the fiction. That's… — N. K. Jemisin Copy Share Image
Sci-fi uses the images that sf - starting with H.G. Wells - made familiar: space travel, aliens, galactic wars and federations, time… — Ursula K. Le Guin Copy Share Image
“As he rose to his feet he noticed that he was neither dripping nor panting for breath as anyone would expect after… — C.S. Lewis Copy Share Image
Stories ought not to be just little bits of fantasy that are used to wile away an idle hour; from the beginning… — Joan Aiken Copy Share Image
The fantasies inspired by TB in the last century, by cancer now, are responses to a disease thought to be intractable and… — Susan Sontag Copy Share Image
In a period piece, particularly a fantasy, the lighting is your own choice, the lenses are your own choice. It's really a… — Vilmos Zsigmond Copy Share Image
In the past we have always assumed that the external world around us has represented reality, however confusing or uncertain, and that… — J. G. Ballard Copy Share Image
I wish more fantasy, especially the dominant fantasy that draws heavily on British and Christian lore, would wrestle with its own ethnospecific… — Nalo Hopkinson Copy Share Image
“So that’s when the witch somehow pulled off her own restraint and flung herself at me like a beautiful and deadly panther.… — Cassandra Gannon Copy Share Image
Children are often envied for their supposed imaginations, but the truth is that adults imagine things far more than children do. Most… — Dara Horn Copy Share Image
They may be called the Palace Guard, the City Guard, or the Patrol. Whatever the name, their purpose in any work of… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
You can't map a sense of humor. Anyway, what is a fantasy map but a space beyond which There Be Dragons? On… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
“Her silent singing wrapped around the story she was telling herself, which she extended further every night on the deck. (Averill often… — Alice Munro Copy Share Image
“Has no one done my son a service and assassinated you yet?" "No assassins yet," Wit said, amused. "I guess I've already… — Brandon Sanderson Copy Share Image
When I was young, my knowledge of the literary world was a distorted tabloid sketch of dazzling fame, suffering genius, and tragic… — Robin Beth Schaer Copy Share Image
I started a novel back in high school. It wasn't very good. It was the opposite of good. The writing itself wasn't… — Patrick Rothfuss Copy Share Image
With fantasy, one often has to think of a well-loved series before narrowing the selection to a favourite book. So it is… — Neal Asher Copy Share Image
