I was in the fantasy. I was selling myself on the fantasy as I was doing it. It never occurred to me.… — Melissa Febos Copy Share Image
Imagination doesn’t just mean making things up. It means thinking things through, solving them, or hoping to do so, and being just… — Diana Wynne Jones Copy Share Image
I never wore a stich of make-up until I got to America. I lived in a world of fantasy it was made… — Pamela Anderson Copy Share Image
When divorces meant marriage no longer provided security for a lifetime, women adjusted by focusing on careers as empowerment. But when the… — Warren Farrell Copy Share Image
As you see, I bear some resentment and some scars from the years of anti-genre bigotry. My own fiction, which moves freely… — Ursula K. Le Guin Copy Share Image
Don't get me wrong, magic is cool. But a nervous mother singing to her child at night while something moves quietly through… — Patrick Rothfuss Copy Share Image
While my chosen form of story-writing is obviously a special and perhaps a narrow one, it is none the less a persistent… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“Love great first lines and paragraphs. From The Yiddish Policemen's Union: Nine months Landsman's been flopping at the Hotel Zamenhof without any… — Michael Chabon Copy Share Image
I used to live with two other guys. We used to cook two things. The first one was called 'cheese... thing' and… — Dylan Moran Copy Share Image
“My jaw went slack. Private rooms? Great, the button thing had been a step too far. Either he was totally getting the… — Sam Dogra Copy Share Image
It may be a mistake to say this, but I know my limitations as an actor and I know what I can… — Christopher Lambert Copy Share Image
I'm still just a kid learning about minimalism, and he's a master of it. It's just really such a blessing, to be… — Kanye West Copy Share Image
“Disclosures of childhood sexual abuse have frequently been discredited through the diagnosis of hysteria. In this view, women/female children were seen either… — Judith L. Alpert Copy Share Image
“It was said that the Old Folk controlled the power of fire, among other things, but that was in the Long and… — Michael Kanuckel Copy Share Image
“Remy shot to her feet, eyes blazing. Her hands were fisted at her sides. “Don’t be stupid, Creed.” “What did you say?”… — Lindy Zart Copy Share Image
“When you mix Science Fiction with Fantasy you don't have a pure genre, the two are, to a professional separate genres. I… — L. Ron Hubbard Copy Share Image
“He takes my face in his hands and presses his lips against mine – a tender, beautiful kiss – the kiss I’ve… — Valentina Hepburn Copy Share Image
When I was at college, the idea of fashion was more immediate to me, whereas art photography, the depth of it, was… — Tim Walker Copy Share Image
Fantasy involves that which general opinion regards as impossible; science fiction involves that which general opinion regards as possible under the right… — Daryl Gregory Copy Share Image
“If you continue to threaten us, I will act upon my threat.’ I felt silly using the precise language of bargaining dictators… — Rosie Pugh Copy Share Image
“A Swedish minister having assembled the chiefs of the Susquehanna Indians, made a sermon to them, acquainting them with the principal historical… — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
“Reality is the strip malls of Burbank, the smokestacks of Cleveland, a parking garage in Newark. Fantasy is the towers of Minas… — George R.R. Martin Copy Share Image
The biggest threat to a better life is the desire to keep the future under control - to make the world predictable… — Virginia Postrel Copy Share Image
To work magic is to weave the unseen forces into form; to soar beyond sight; to explore the uncharted dream realm of… — Starhawk Copy Share Image
“Monster? Monster, you say?” He scratched his chest, blood dripping from what seemed to be an old wound. “No, my friend. I… — J.B. Lion Copy Share Image
San Francisco is where gay fantasies come true, and the problem the city presents is whether, after all, we wanted these particular… — Edmund White Copy Share Image
“With that sapphire, he bound your strength to him, but the magic did what he did not intend; it made him strong… — Katherine Arden Copy Share Image
It's easier for me to write certain character types because of my own life experiences, but I find it too artistically limiting… — Brent Weeks Copy Share Image
Fantasy works inwards upon its author, blurring the boundary between the visioned and the actual, and associating itself ever moreclosely with the… — Dorothy L. Sayers Copy Share Image
“Fantastic literature has been especially prominent in times of unrest, when the older values have been overthrown to make way for the… — Franz Rottensteiner Copy Share Image
“Me sentía tan liviana como la pelusa del diente de león; él era el viento que me llevaba por el mundo. Y… — Sarah J. Maas Copy Share Image
If truth be known, I carried some rather potent messianic fantasies with me from childhood which I felt I had to control,… — George Soros Copy Share Image
Maybe it's my freak flag that, when I go to a haunted mansion, I would rather blend in with them and be… — Jimmi Simpson Copy Share Image
Our easiest approach to a definition of any aspect of fiction is always by considering the sort of demand it makes on… — E. M. Forster Copy Share Image
In fantasy and science fiction, world-building is an essential part of the story. But as a reader, I don't just want descriptions… — Sabaa Tahir Copy Share Image
It's important for the character, over the course of six years, to have checked off all the different boxes of the things… — Matt Warburton Copy Share Image
“John had written that normal fantasy ("normal" in the T.S. Kuhn sense) was written for the moderately educated class suffering from ennui.… — Don Webb Copy Share Image
Real life is generally much duller and inevitably sadder, most of the time. In film, you control everything that's going on, so… — Woody Allen Copy Share Image
When you shoot a film, when it was film, there used to be rushes and normally a director would look at them… — Donald Sutherland Copy Share Image
“Just before he passed behind the hedge at the end of the drive, he turned to look back at Stoke Morrow and… — Adam McOmber Copy Share Image
