As chairman of the Senate subcommittee responsible for NASA appropriations, I say not a penny for this nutty fantasy. — William Proxmire Copy Share Image
The creative writer does the same as the child at play; he creates a world of fantasy which he takes very seriously. — Sigmund Freud Copy Share Image
“The crimson leaf that blew past looked the twin of the one she'd picked up in the palace courtyard: a bloodied hand.” — S.M. Jonas Copy Share Image
“You couldn't wake someone when his own dreams turned out better than reality.” — Danielle Bennett Copy Share Image
And it is through fantasy that children achieve catharsis. It is the best means they have for taming wild things. — Maurice Sendak Copy Share Image
If you're the leader, you've got to give up your omniscient and omnipotent fantasies - that you know and must do everything.… — Warren G. Bennis Copy Share Image
I'm hardly digging trenches for a living. I'm getting to tap into my boyhood fantasies of being a larger-than-life character. — Joel Edgerton Copy Share Image
When I started reading George R.R. Martin's 'A Song of Ice and Fire' novels, it was the late 1990s and obsessing over… — Ross Douthat Copy Share Image
“As she glanced down at the great distance to the ground below, she whispered in his ear, "You have obviously taken the… — Leigh Ann Edwards Copy Share Image
With the possible exception of steampunk aficionados, many reasonable people must view my fascination with Victorian and Edwardian popular fiction - mysteries,… — Michael Dirda Copy Share Image
I've spoken often of how the fantasy genre is able to, with the greatest freedom among all the genres, take a metaphor… — Steven Erikson Copy Share Image
The way I think about things or hear things in my head is actually much closer to acoustic instruments. I don't have… — Oneohtrix Point Never Copy Share Image
Guy Gavriel Kay's 'Tigana' is, in my opinion, one of the best, if not the best fantasy novel ever written. It's beautifully… — David B. Coe Copy Share Image
“Thomas Randall and Christopher Golden not only are inventive writers but write in a sense to grab your attention cover to cover!… — Thomas Randall Copy Share Image
“The fantasy/reality confusion...it's just marvelous in her work. I mean, there, it's practically like what we do, the fantasy working as a… — Samuel R. Delany Copy Share Image
“PDR: Persons of Dubious Reality; refugees from the collective consciousness. Uninvited visitors who have fallen through the grating that divides the real,… — Jasper Fforde Copy Share Image
“Othalas: Words. What are they but shadows on a page or howling on the wind? They are as ever-changing as the mists… — Robert Fanney Copy Share Image
“I want to say to the literature teacher who remains wilfully, even boastfully ignorant of a major element of contemporary fiction: you… — Ursula K. Le Guin Copy Share Image
I got to live out my 11-year-old fantasies - I got to go on stage with Green Day. Billie Joe called my… — Florence Welch Copy Share Image
“I'm here by choice, I reminded myself. I'm here because I can't bear to be not- here anymore. I'm here because I… — Cate Tiernan Copy Share Image
As a generalization, fantasy writing has leaned more on political storytelling the more it's tried to escape the inevitable influence of Middle-earth,… — Ross Douthat Copy Share Image
The moment you doubt whether you can fly, you cease for ever to be able to do it. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“Always have a plan, but be prepared to change it at any given moment.” — K. Chrisbacher Copy Share Image
“Blood answers blood, especially that given for the sake of others.” — Helen C. Johannes Copy Share Image
“I read so I might live a thousand lives in a lifetime. I write to control the particulars in those lives.” — Richelle E. Goodrich Copy Share Image
Writing is a combination of intangible creative fantasy and appallingly hard work. — Anthony Powell Copy Share Image
“You didn’t make her sue you, even if you did punch her at that wedding.” — Kathy Bryson Copy Share Image
When you're doing fantasy, you can get so caught up in the magic of it that you lose the humanity. — Austin Butler Copy Share Image
“I would offer congratulations were it not for this tentacle gripping my leg.” — Jack Vance Copy Share Image
Never underestimate the power of the State to act out its own massive fantasies. — Don DeLillo Copy Share Image
My fantasy is, if I wasnt on Dexter, I would move my family to London and work for the BBC on Doctor… — Manny Coto Copy Share Image
“Just write what You want to write, how You want to write it! K.D.Faerydae” — K.D. Faerydae Copy Share Image
“ Rhett: If you've made up your mind to impale someone, do it with conviction.” — Rowena Cherry Copy Share Image
I don't know how much you play fantasy football for; I've never played it. — Alvin Kamara Copy Share Image
“Hurricanes couldn’t remove you from my mind. You’re my world and I’m incapable of not loving you.” — Billie-Jo Williams Copy Share Image
Fantasy is only a state of mind that you can employ when existing in a real context. — Woody Allen Copy Share Image
