“On a cloudless night, inky dark, with only a rind of a moon above, the Golem and the Jinni went walking together… — Helene Wecker Copy Share Image
To read a novel is to wonder constantly, even at moments when we lose ourselves most deeply in the book: How much… — Orhan Pamuk Copy Share Image
The Company of Wolves doesn't belong in any category, so it's difficult to prepare an audience for it. It's not a horror… — Neil Jordan Copy Share Image
“The story so far: In the beginning the Universe was created. This has made a lot of people very angry and been… — Douglas Adams Copy Share Image
I certainly have been writing stories that are hard science fiction, that are very reminiscent of 'Golden Age tales' from the '40s… — Ken Liu Copy Share Image
It's always been a dream of mine, and a childhood fantasy, to play a great champion. I would much rather haven been… — Mark Wahlberg Copy Share Image
I'm not implying that fantasy is for kids. I'm saying that more and more people are finally realizing that there's more to… — Patrick Rothfuss Copy Share Image
“The lights flickered, the pain went away, and her mother was holding her, singing ‘Sleep sweet sleep’. (The Children of Ankh series)… — Kim Cormack Copy Share Image
“I would rather never make a penny on book sales and know that many had derived some fair pleasure from my writing,… — Eric Diehl Copy Share Image
I learned to make my mind large, as the universe is large, so that there is room for paradoxes. Petals are bone… — Maxine Hong Kingston Copy Share Image
Zeus Is Dead is full of laugh-out-loud moments, lashings of sly wit, moan-worthy puns, and a complex, fast-paced storyline. There aren't very… — Jody Lynn Nye Copy Share Image
I started a novel back in high school. It wasn't very good. It was the opposite of good. The writing itself wasn't… — Patrick Rothfuss Copy Share Image
When I was young, my knowledge of the literary world was a distorted tabloid sketch of dazzling fame, suffering genius, and tragic… — Robin Beth Schaer Copy Share Image
I was in the fantasy. I was selling myself on the fantasy as I was doing it. It never occurred to me.… — Melissa Febos Copy Share Image
With fantasy, one often has to think of a well-loved series before narrowing the selection to a favourite book. So it is… — Neal Asher Copy Share Image
“Has no one done my son a service and assassinated you yet?" "No assassins yet," Wit said, amused. "I guess I've already… — Brandon Sanderson Copy Share Image
The poet is in command of his fantasy, while it is exactly the mark of the neurotic that he is possessed by… — Lionel Trilling 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
“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 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
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
“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
“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
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
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
“He desperately tried to think of a story to explain his involvement in her sudden appearance, without mentioning the book of magic… — Max Nowaz Copy Share Image
When you're older, you want to be scared because you understand more where the boundaries between fantasy and reality are, and I… — David Tennant Copy Share Image
“I handed him a beaker and toyed with the pleats of my skirt. The folds kept rippling against my knees in a… — Andrea Cremer Copy Share Image
I wasn't ecstatic about being pregnant - I wasn't somebody who actively wanted kids. Certainly there were no fantasies about nappy-changing. — Elizabeth McGovern Copy Share Image
Rose was sexy. It was my fantasy about her. She accomplished so much and came from so little in terms of a… — Linda Lavin 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
Televisions and movies have made many Americans into habitual consumers of synthetic experience-audiovisual fantasies that simply pass the time. — Karl Albrecht 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
“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 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
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
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
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
