“A set of huge marble busts stared smugly down from on high: great merchants and financiers of Styrian history, by the look… — Joe Abercrombie Copy Share Image
I do remember, as a child, that I always imagined, when I was maybe 6 or 7, my fantasy was that everywhere… — Ben Kingsley Copy Share Image
“I have lived a thousand lives and I have loved a thousand loves. I've walked on distant worlds and seen the end… — George R.R. Martin Copy Share Image
Most of the songs I write just very directly from my life. I don't have a big imagination. Whenever I tried to… — Rivers Cuomo Copy Share Image
I have a better internal and intuitive understanding of folklore and myth than science and technology, so in that way fantasy is… — Sarah Zettel Copy Share Image
“The abbot cleared his throat. "You are all very stupid people," he told them graciously, "and you do not know anything at… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
For your loving I felt girl It's just too good to be true. That you would come into my life and make… — Jacob Latimore Copy Share Image
“The dominoes of fate are falling down as we are speaking, and Ferriar knows what will happen when the last one crashes… — Evan Meekins 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
“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 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
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 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
“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
I grew up reading a lot of fantasy/sci-fi. It was really all I read - anything from 'Dragonlance,' when I was 12,… — Kris Holden-Ried Copy Share Image
Remember, despite the fact that this book is being sold as a 'fantasy' novel, you must take all of the things it… — Brandon Sanderson Copy Share Image
My brand of fantasy is completely devoid of the traditional notions of magic as ritual. Instead I see the fantastic as a… — Vera Nazarian Copy Share Image
Reverie is the groundwork of creative imagination; it is the privilege of the artist that with him it is not as with… — W. Somerset Maugham Copy Share Image
People love westerns worldwide. There's something fantasy-like about an individual fighting the elements. Or even bad guys and the elements. It's a… — Clint Eastwood Copy Share Image
Most fears are not even based on our current reality. They are the product of imagined fears conjured up in our minds… — Lauren Mackler Copy Share Image
I liked a lot of Tyler's character, the rebelliousness and audaciousness of it, it's like a fantasy of myself, like yeah, I'm… — Robert Pattinson Copy Share Image
The dramatic sufferings of adults and all the cruel fantasies of those of my own age, who seemed abandoned to their own… — Antoni Tapies Copy Share Image
I felt like an outcast and turned to books, fantasy in particular, to find a place for myself. Reading took me away… — Sabaa Tahir Copy Share Image
“So is this being in love? I stay with the moment, waiting to find out, the space between us fluctuating with uncertainty.… — Kea Alwang Copy Share Image
“I would be a wedge-tailed eagle. I would only live for the joy of flight. I would soar at great heights, on… — Karen Foxlee Copy Share Image
The number of one's possible fantasies is inversely proportional to the amount of one's liquid assets. For him who has everything dreams… — Stanislaw Lem Copy Share Image
I cling to the fantasy that I could have done something more creative. Like actually writing a script, or writing a book.… — Hugh Grant Copy Share Image
To me, fantasy has always been the genre of escape, science fiction the genre of ideas. So if you can escape and… — Sheri S. Tepper Copy Share Image
When I look at 'Fallen Angels,' I realize it is not a film that is truly about Hong Kong. It's more like… — Wong Kar-wai Copy Share Image
“One evening, after a particularly terrible row, the prince smashed his princess over the head with an old wooden clock and she… — Brooke Warra Copy Share Image
I think you're attracted to things that are different from yourself in a character because it's more interesting, and you get to… — Felicity Jones Copy Share Image
“You could write your way into happiness. It might not be the happiness you'd experience if Eldric pushed Leanne from a cliff,… — Franny Billingsley Copy Share Image
I'm passionate about fantasy movies. I'm passionate about comic book movies. I'm passionate about superheroes. And movies about vengeance. And all of… — Josh Keaton Copy Share Image
“I was also supposed to quiz my various companions on a number of important matters such as nostalgia, fear of unknown animals,… — Vladimir Nabokov Copy Share Image
“No matter how strong you are, you cannot hold open the jaws of a great-white shark with your bare hands... that can… — Ivan Stoikov Copy Share Image
In a way, art is a great way to release your love, fantasy, and desires. It's like a fetish. It's a comfortable… — Nicolas Winding Refn Copy Share Image
I always assumed that, like my mother before me, one day I would have children. When I was 5, my fantasy was… — Kim Cattrall Copy Share Image
I keep threatening to write a non-fantasy book, and they keep offering me the kind of money I can't refuse to write… — Raymond E. Feist 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 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)
