When I was a kid, I read the science-fiction shelves, and I read the fantasy shelves. — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
An imaginative adventure does not enjoy the same corsets as reportage. — Samuel Beckett Copy Share Image
In nature, a child finds freedom, fantasy, and privacy: a place distant from the adult world, a separate peace. — Richard Louv Copy Share Image
Fantasy allows for less rigorous worldbuilding and more vigorous exploration of moral questions. Sci-fi is opp. — Paul S. Kemp Copy Share Image
“Ugh! only she could meet a gorgeous new guy and make a fool of herself. Remy thought.” — Hope Worthington Copy Share Image
“The woman had a body wet dreams were made of, and he couldn't remember being this goddamn hard in his life.” — Eden Ashe Copy Share Image
“America, and all it had once stood for--all he had fought for--was dying...on life support, and counting.” — Patricia Cori Copy Share Image
“Hey, when you love a woman, and when she’s this crazy in love with you, you’ve got to do whatever she says,… — Arby Robbins Copy Share Image
“I sleep with the lights on now. Not because I’m afraid of the dark, but because I like to keep the night… — Keith Kekic Copy Share Image
The seed of a metaphysical or religious defeat is in us all. For the honest questioner, however, who doesn't seek refuge in… — Peter Wessel Zapffe Copy Share Image
“Do you want me?” he whispered. It was a simple but loaded question. The answer, like it could remove all anguish from… — M. R. Noble Copy Share Image
“What would you suggest?” one of the Italian officials asked. “We do have a highly-advanced biological device called the Illuminator,” Joseph chimed… — Laura Kreitzer Copy Share Image
“A song she heard Of cold that gathers Like winter's tongue Among the shadows It rose like blackness In the sky That… — Robert Fanney Copy Share Image
“Love'--romantic love, anyway--was a fantasy people indulged in because otherwise, life was just too boring to tolerate.” — Wendy Wunder Copy Share Image
“There will be no magic, whatsoever. Magic is either a poverty-stricken necessity or a wealthy fantasy. We are in neither of those… — Jesse Ball Copy Share Image
No dreams, no visions, no delicious fantasies, no castles in the air, with which, as the old song so truly says, hearts… — William Osler 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
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
“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
“I expect everyone in Boston has something like that ring, which is why I am glad I have never been to Boston.” — Catherynne M. Valente Copy Share Image
I try to stay focused on my life and do try not to be brought into the Hollywood fantasy. — Jennifer Connelly Copy Share Image
I lived out my little rock'n'roll fantasy, I just wish I hadn't gotten into so much trouble for it. — Courtney Love Copy Share Image
“You mistake the stars reflected in the surface of the lake at night for the heavens” — Andrzej Sapkowski Copy Share Image
I write a kind of surreal fantasy, but they can't put 'surreal fantasy' on a paperback. — Harlan Ellison Copy Share Image
“First, you need to realize everything you thought you knew about yourself, about me, is a lie.” — Angela Parkhurst Copy Share Image
I'm, uh, not proud to say it - I play fantasy baseball. It's, like, the dorkiest thing ever. — Paul Rudd Copy Share Image
“I don't believe in virgin sacrifice. It encourages promiscuity at an early age” — Adrianne Ambrose Copy Share Image
“Who needs sports stardom when you can shoot fireballs from your fingertips?” — Ethan Gilsdorf Copy Share Image
While growing up, I lived in my own fantasy world. I had kind of a rough childhood, so I created my own… — Roger Ross Williams Copy Share Image
“She was every inch the skeletal goddess that had been promised by the bones of her feet.” — Jefferson Smith Copy Share Image
“I cannot breathe, or see, nor swim, My darkness is composed of him.” — Nenia Campbell Copy Share Image
“Her scream of utter horror and fright was a sound that no one in the chamber would ever forget. ~Crispin.~” — J.L. Clayton Copy Share Image
