Ultimately, all I wanted was for players to feel like they were in the real world. I wanted them to be able… — Warren Spector Copy Share Image
“Unfortunately, there’s still a market for rubbish. I picked up a recently written fantasy book at the weekend, and one character said… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
A police procedural novel can be even funnier if the police include Trolls and Dwarves and things like that. You start looking… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
“He had dreamt about a dark-haired foreign boy. This boy held the key to the undoing of their demise. He had carried… — Mary K. Savarese Copy Share Image
“Why aren't you afraid of me?" Coy looks at me, baffled. "Why would I be afraid of you?" I shrug, not getting… — Brandy Nacole Copy Share Image
At some point, every science fiction and fantasy story must challenge the reader's experience and learning. That's much of the reason why… — Orson Scott Card Copy Share Image
Soft fantasy worlds have a much looser cause-and-effect relationship. Alchemists can turn lead into gold and nobody wonders about how it will… — Patrick Rothfuss Copy Share Image
“Man leave the past in the past. That's where it belongs. The trouble with addicts is that they carry bad memories around… — Valjeanne Jeffers Copy Share Image
“Although the villagers rose with the sun to work the fields, attend to the animals, bake their bread, and begin their long… — Bonnie Ferrante Copy Share Image
I love young adult fantasies. While I say that, I have not seen all of the Twilight and Harry Potter movies. But… — Viola Davis Copy Share Image
If the central contest of the twentieth century has pitted capitalism against socialism, then F. A. Hayek has been its central figure.… — Kenneth Minogue Copy Share Image
“I noticed him right away. No, it wasn’t his lean, rugged face. Or the dark waves of shiny hair that hung just… — Priya Ardis Copy Share Image
I think Eleanor Roosevelt always had a most incredible comfort writing letters. I mean, she was in the habit of writing letters.… — Blanche Wiesen Cook Copy Share Image
“You speak good words, child, but sometimes what lies within is much darker. The line between justice and revenge is then. Justice… — Amira Aly Copy Share Image
“So – I am n-nothing more than – than a bloody job?! On top of not knowing why you must look after… — S.C. Parris Copy Share Image
“For women who do too much—which includes, dear publishers, pretty much all the women who have enough disposable income to buy your… — Jennifer Weiner Copy Share Image
“She had begun to bake to have her eyes looking at a bowl, a flour bin, an oven, a fire, a face,… — Patricia McKillip Copy Share Image
“Because I loved you!" she shouted. "Because I didn't want to let you go! Because I didn't want to lose you!" She… — Airicka Phoenix Copy Share Image
The end of coal in Appalachia doesn't mean that America is running out of coal (there's plenty left in Wyoming). But it… — Jeff Goodell Copy Share Image
“Being recognized for your efforts… It is an impossible task. People are not particularly interested in efforts of others. Even if they… — Green Tea Copy Share Image
There are, occasionally, writers who are able to combine both story and style. They are, of course, the best. You get a… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
Maybe there's a sense that technology isn't necessarily the answer to a lot of our problems. Fantasy offers readers a less radically… — Lev Grossman Copy Share Image
Fantasy is a literature particularly useful for embodying and examining the real difference between good and evil. In an America where our… — Ursula K. Le Guin Copy Share Image
As you see, I do not treat the creation of fiction, that to say the invention and development of fantasies,as a form… — J. M. Coetzee Copy Share Image
“For me the real evil of masturbation would be that it takes an appetite which, in lawful use, leads the individual out… — C.S. Lewis Copy Share Image
“As a fallen noble, he could only imagine the embarrassment she must have endured, when his family disowned her. To lose the… — Kristina Stangl Copy Share Image
“Today was the day a thousand dreams would die and a single dream would be born. The wind knew. It was the… — Mary E. Pearson Copy Share Image
. . .from their earliest years children live on familiar terms with disrupting emotions, fear and anxiety are an intrinsic part of… — Maurice Sendak Copy Share Image
“Have you never thought how danger must surround power as shadow does light? This sorcery is not a game we play for… — Ursula K. Le Guin Copy Share Image
“Very few people know this about me, but I’m a sucker for a good romance. I just don’t usually believe they happen… — Kata Čuić Copy Share Image
The refusal to accept that the black presence in Britain has a long and deep history is not just a symptom of… — David Olusoga Copy Share Image
Work with good directors. Without them your play is doomed. At the time of my first play, I thought a good director… — Terrence McNally 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
Adolescence is a time of active deconstruction, construction, reconstruction--a period in which past, present, and future are rewoven and strung together on… — Louise J. Kaplan Copy Share Image
Lyra learns to her great cost that fantasy isn’t enough. She has been lying all her life, telling stories to people, making… — Philip Pullman Copy Share Image
“I felt so much older now, so much more responsible. I guess that there were some positive outcomes: I knew more things… — Erica Sehyun Song Copy Share Image
“Alice laughed. 'There's no use trying,' she said. 'One can't believe impossible things.' I daresay you haven't had much practice,' said the… — Lewis Carroll Copy Share Image
“Lyly screamed and ran to Tyler. “I can’t let you go until I tell you.” “Tell me what?” Tyler asked. “You’re the… — Mary K. Savarese Copy Share Image
I'm a fantasy writer, called a fantasy writer. But there's very little, apart from one or two basic concepts in 'I Shall… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
I think that pretty much every form of fiction (I’d include fantasy, obviously) can actually be a real escape from places where… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
