“Why should a man be scorned, if, finding himself in prison, he tries to get out and go home? Or if, when… — J.R.R. Tolkien Copy Share Image
“Oh, don't get me started! I love fantasy, I read it for pleasure, even after all these years. Pat McKillip, Ursula Le… — Terri Windling Copy Share Image
“Firen didn’t waste any time setting up the meeting with Egnatious. The following day she was in such a rush to tell… — Laura Kreitzer Copy Share Image
To suggest that organic vegetables, which cost far more than conventional produce, can feed billions of people in parts of the world… — Michael Specter Copy Share Image
I love those historians that are either very simple or most excellent. Such as are between both (which is the most common… — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share Image
Beyond that, I seem to be compelled to write science fiction, rather than fantasy or mysteries or some other genre more likely… — Joan D. Vinge Copy Share Image
With the Black Company series Glen Cook single-handedly changed the face of fantasy—something a lot of people didn’t notice and maybe still… — Steven Erikson Copy Share Image
“Where did you meet?” he pressed on. I shrugged and considered a little rephrasing. “I was out for a run.” “From who?”… — Dannika Dark Copy Share Image
“The fourth elf was younger than the others. This showed in the perfection of her skin, the agility and speed of her… — Ian Livingstone Copy Share Image
Every character lives in ever actor and if you're doing your job right, you're just accessing that part of your fantasy life.… — Matthew Lillard Copy Share Image
In Bergman's world I represented a sort of intellectual, skeptical, ironic person, rather cold and frustrated. When I went abroad and made… — Erland Josephson Copy Share Image
“I want to tear these clothes off of you and taste every inch of your skin. I want to lick you between… — Juliette Cross Copy Share Image
I started to write a series of fantasy novels when I was eleven. I have never taken anything artistic as seriously; since… — Ken Baumann Copy Share Image
I want you to sense the Holy Spirit brooding over you. Is this too good to be true? You betcha, it's the… — Graham Cooke Copy Share Image
Cliché openings in fantasy can include an opening scene set in a battle (and my peeve is that I don’t know any… — Kristin Nelson Copy Share Image
“The only magic that's left in the world right now is the magic that we make ourselves, deliberately. You're not going to… — Megan Lindholm Copy Share Image
“There are two novels that can transform a bookish 14-year-kid’s life: The Lord of the Rings and Atlas Shrugged. One is a… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“Then his lips were on mine and I lost myself, overwhelmed by the surge of Trey’s emotions as they flooded through me.… — Heather Jensen Copy Share Image
As a child I used to watch clouds, and in them, see faces, castles, animals, dragons, and giants. It was a world… — Barry B. Longyear Copy Share Image
“Joseph, you’re out of clean towels.” Lucia poked her head into the living room, the rest of her hidden behind the wall.… — Laura Kreitzer Copy Share Image
“Okay, this is formally beyond fiction.” Sherri began rocking on the bed. She laughed uncomfortably. “Is there a category beyond fiction? Science… — Gary Williams Copy Share Image
It's like aversion therapy. You keep doing scenes over and over again with three women in the bed with you, and we… — Steve Coogan Copy Share Image
We are pre-disposed for fantasy, there is a natural impulse for human beings to want to get off their heads or out… — Tom Baker Copy Share Image
“Santa was dead, to begin with. There was no doubt whatsoever about that. The after-action report was signed by the field commander,… — Chris Lester Copy Share Image
The notion that the UN is some sort of dispassionate body that, does right and just pursues everybody's best interests is a… — Mona Charen Copy Share Image
“So how did it go? I sat on the toilet and ran a hand over my hair. Um... it's still going, I… — Denise Grover Swank Copy Share Image
One might point to the great illumination that has resulted from Freud's analysis of the abracadabra of our dreams. No one can… — Walter Lippmann Copy Share Image
No one spoke in terms of children's literature, as opposed to adult literature, until around the 1940s. It wasn't categorised much before… — Rick Riordan Copy Share Image
“Not for the first time, the thought occurred to Hirou that if he'd actually known he was going to be transported into… — Eliezer Yudkowsky Copy Share Image
“There are moments in time when the axis of the universe shifts, when life as you knew it is irrevocably altered. When… — Jennifer Silverwood Copy Share Image
I look at all of world mythology and folklore as my toy to play with. There are just so many characters and… — Mike Mignola Copy Share Image
“Fantasy, though, is a literature of things beyond explanation. It calls us back to childhood, either the childhood of our species, before… — Roger Bellini Copy Share Image
“Take courage. You do not yet see your own abilities because you have never been tested. You have never demonstrated to yourself… — L.R.W. Lee Copy Share Image
“I had to find Mr. Brentwood. And I had to save him. Zeus, Inc. had saved the world 50 years ago when… — Robin Burks Copy Share Image
I think a lot of writers spend years just getting up the courage to write because it seems like such a fantasy… — B. J. Novak Copy Share Image
I can't say that fantasy instead of the 3D world is fine or good, but I know in my own life I… — Jane Alison Copy Share Image
There is a fantasy in Redmond that Microsoft products are innovative, but this is based entirely on a peculiar confusion of the… — Robert X. Cringely Copy Share Image
“In my fantasy world everyone has a happy ending. No one is told who they should be, how they should feel, who… — Shannon L. Alder Copy Share Image
“Sunlight streamed in a steady flow, casting flecks of gold onto the floor, bathing my skin. I inhaled deeply. Already, the air… — Erica Sehyun Song Copy Share Image
In high fashion, we're always accused of doing things that are not very relevant, not the real world. I know that it's… — Alber Elbaz Copy Share Image
