“And so they stood on the walls of the City of Gondor, and a great wind rose and blew, and their hair,… — J.R.R. Tolkien Copy Share Image
I was very much a part of the civil rights era, so, of course, my fantasy was to marry some outstanding black… — Roxie Roker Copy Share Image
“Sometimes we have to pretend that we don’t care in order to protect ourselves from the fact that we do. And the… — Craig D. Lounsbrough Copy Share Image
There's this great fantasy of going to work, every day, and getting to play out what people think my life is, as… — Robert Knepper Copy Share Image
What happened to fantasy for me is what also happened to rock and roll. It found a common denominator for making maximum… — Michael Moorcock Copy Share Image
Patrick Rothfuss gives us a fabulous debut, standing firmly on the main stage of the fantasy genre and needing no warm-up act.… — Kevin J. Anderson Copy Share Image
“Even though I was fairly certain God wasn't Ted Bundy, I kept an open mind, since this phone call was getting a… — Scott Buckel Copy Share Image
“Either you’re with me or you’re against me. I can’t afford to be looking over my shoulder all the time waiting for… — Kyra Dune Copy Share Image
City of prose and fantasy, of capitalist automation, its streets a triumph of cubism, its moral philosophy that of the dollar. New… — Leon Trotsky Copy Share Image
The individual is denuded of everything but appetites, desires, and tastes, wrenched from any context of human obligation or commitment. It is… — Jeremy Seabrook Copy Share Image
It can be a way of knowledge, a path, an inspiration, a Tao, an ordering, a memory, a fantasy, a seduction, a… — John Lanchester Copy Share Image
What I'm working on now - I'm back to fantasy, although considering that it's me, I'm turning it into a kind of… — Octavia Butler Copy Share Image
“Look,' Mercator told her. 'You can talk to a person. You can reason with an individual. Usually. But people , that's another… — Michael J. Sullivan Copy Share Image
Much of the way books get classified has to do with marketing decisions. I think it's more useful to think of literary… — Karen Russell Copy Share Image
There is no winning or losing, but rather the value is in the experience of imagining yourself as a character in whatever… — Gary Gygax Copy Share Image
The more you are possession oriented, the less happy you will be. The less happy you are, the farther away from the… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“If there's one thing I've learned in my eighteen life-cycles, it's that the most special moments--the most magical pockets of out existence--are… — Jaymin Eve Jane Washington Copy Share Image
I suppose I had my rock star fantasies while I was singing into my hairbrush in the bathroom mirror, but I never… — Al Yankovic Copy Share Image
People try not to think about what's going on in sub-Saharan Africa. They edit it out of their daily lives. Especially Americans.… — Robert Lopez Copy Share Image
There are some gestures, of course, that you can only interpret one way. But no one has ever seen those kinds of… — Vladimir Putin Copy Share Image
“A time will come in your life, William, where your faith will be tested... and you must stay faithful to the word… — M. J. Chrisman Copy Share Image
“Any writer who presents an American home today where the television is not the head of the family is living in a… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
“Vane’s lips tightened to suppress a smile. “Why so hostile, love?” “You whacked me on the head with a ball!” “You deserved… — Priya Ardis Copy Share Image
I don't write science fiction. I've only done one science fiction book and that's Fahrenheit 451, based on reality. Science fiction is… — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
I just like that balance of the real and the fantastical because as a reader and consumer of stories and fantasy, I… — Ransom Riggs Copy Share Image
“I want a love as deep as the sea, A love that will forever carry me, Away…Where I can go far away… — Christopher St John Sampayo Copy Share Image
“It was a serious offense to invite a Deep Witch to cross the border of the Five Kingdoms. They had been banished… — Vivian French Copy Share Image
Fantasy allows you bend the world and the situation to more clearly focus on the moral aspects of what's happening. In fantasy… — Terry Goodkind Copy Share Image
I've always loved reading fantasy. I used to pick out all the books in the library that had the little unicorn sticker… — Maggie Stiefvater Copy Share Image
“Today there could be laughter and freedom, but soon the magic would end and they would have to go back to the… — Alyson Serena Stone Copy Share Image
The space program caused so much future-thinking in culture. People who couldn't go to the Moon were building space-fantasy chairs and corsets… — Aleksandra Mir Copy Share Image
So much of the way books get classified has to do with marketing decisions. I think it's more useful to think of… — Karen Russell Copy Share Image
All the fantasy writers I know have a way of dwelling on their own fears and phobias. A writer spends his life… — Charles Beaumont Copy Share Image
“The moon people do not eat by swallowing food but by smelling it. Their money is poetry - actual poems, written out… — Paul Auster Copy Share Image
“Paranormal. It rolls off the tongue with such poetry but it means something like, beyond normal. There is nothing paranormal about magic.… — Marcy L. Peska Copy Share Image
“Living with thieves, it would be a matter of moments before they picked the lock, but she certainly was not going to… — M.L. Chesley Copy Share Image
“And because, well, normal is a fantasy far more ridiculous than a secret school of wizards. Nobody's normal - and those who… — Stephen H. Segal Copy Share Image
When you turn that fantasy into a fact, you are in a position to build even better fantasies. And that, my friend,… — Bob Proctor Copy Share Image
Courts are supposed to be places of reason. But this, of course, is a fantasy. I mean, there is reason being used… — Helen Garner Copy Share Image
Southeast Asia has a real grip on me. From the very first time I went there, it was a fulfillment of my… — Anthony Bourdain Copy Share Image
