“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
Even though my songs may sound very personal, to me most of them are fiction. It is a great way for me… — Nanci Griffith Copy Share Image
True, I talk of dreams, Which are the children of an idle brain, Begot of nothing but vain fantasy, Which is as… — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
“Do you always blindly follow orders from your master? You are no more than a common mutt,’ Varg growled. Tain laughed. ‘He… — Brittany Comeaux Copy Share Image
It's one thing to be sitting at a drawing board, alone in your home and coming up with a fantasy character, and… — Frank Miller Copy Share Image
Books are, let's face it, better than everything else. If we played Cultural Fantasy Boxing League, and made books go fifteen rounds… — Nick Hornby Copy Share Image
“Eena worried to Ian in her thoughts. (You’re not going to let him walk away thinking what I think he’s thinking, are… — Richelle E. Goodrich Copy Share Image
“For my present purpose I require a word which shall embrace both the Sub-Creative Art in itself, and a quality of strangeness… — J.R.R. Tolkien Copy Share Image
“For me, fantasy must be about something, otherwise it's foolishness... ultimately it must be about human beings, it must be about the… — George Clayton Johnson 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 hope the average woman feels she needs practicality but with a little bit of fantasy. Otherwise, it's just not fashion. — Francisco Costa Copy Share Image
I think the most important technique is to ground everything, to make everything - to make fantasy world grounded and relatable, just… — Timur Bekmambetov Copy Share Image
While working in advertising, I channelled my creative energy into elaborate escape fantasies: cake making, dog breeding, the Peace Corps. — Meg Rosoff Copy Share Image
I was tall from minute one. Always the tallest kid by a large margin. And my fantasy was to take up less… — Geena Davis Copy Share Image
“jinn . . . occupy bodies which are in a liminal state . . . when consciousness is a sheet of copper beaten down, mirroring only the moment” — J. M. Ledgard Copy Share Image
“In truth, his most ardent fantasy was to hear her saying the three words he had repeated so often already. I love… — Cristiane Serruya Copy Share Image
I don't think you can have an imagination without having fantasy, and you can't have that rich a life without an imagination. — Jane Alison 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
“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
“We disrespected each other that was our mistake. It wasn't what we both deserved but it had to happen in order for… — Laika Constantino Copy Share Image
The idea that we humans are good-natured, politically correct, nonjudgmental beings is pure fantasy. We are, at the very least, judgmental. — Lyle Lovett Copy Share Image
“Sulphurous wind gusted in his wake; the dust of the street swirled and the folds of his black coat flapped against his… — A.F. Stewart Copy Share Image
“So what did you do, drug me, stuff me in the trunk, then dump me like a sacrificial offering into that vampire’s… — Krista Alasti Copy Share Image
“Who needs to be a Phoenix for rebirth? One simply requires themselves and an instrument to clean the slate and start over,… — TheBakaViolinist Copy Share Image
“Twill be the end of us all when it comes... The moon will devour the sun... The sea will rise in a… — Sam J. Charlton Copy Share Image
Pleasure resorts are like film stars and royalty... embarrassed by the figures they cut in the fantasies of people who have never… — Doris Lessing Copy Share Image
The minute that you bring a unicorn into a story, you know that it's a fairy tale or a fable, because unicorns… — Gloria Vanderbilt Copy Share Image
I was really sheltered growing up, with six brothers and sisters. We played together all the time, and I was living in… — Edward Enninful Copy Share Image
“I walked out of Rhys’s touch—realizing he’d kept silent to let me sort it out. Let me figure out how to deal… — Sarah J. Maas Copy Share Image
I would write light entertainment nonfiction pieces during the day, then come home and work on my fantasy fiction. It was very… — Cassandra Clare Copy Share Image
I loved the 'Lord of the Rings' books, 'The Hobbit.' And my parents, they still don't understand it because they hate fantasy… — Matt Duffer Copy Share Image
I don't really consider my work, on the whole, 'fringe' in my own mind; science fiction and fantasy have been pretty solidly… — Jacqueline Carey Copy Share Image
