Concerned Quote by Alice Hoffman

I am attracted to fantastic writing, and fantastic reading, of course. But I think things that we call fantastic may be real, in the…

— Jorge Luis Borges

What is admirable about the fantastic is that there is no longer anything fantastic: there is only the real.

— Andre Breton

Part of the appeal of the fantastic is taking ridiculous ideas very seriously and pretending they're not absurd.

— China Mieville

“The fantastic is in complicity with the realist model, in the claims that realism makes to represent the true face of reality. It points…

— Michael Richardson

We live on two levels ... the realistic level and the fantastic level, and which is the real one, really?

— Tennessee Williams

On the other side, is a substantial, more materialism, everything is real long to the extent we can see or measure it, and things…

— Surya Das

Real, the one thing everyone says they are but it should never be said only be shown.

— Anonymous

I love the word 'fantastic'. It represents how I always feel.

— Rolf Harris

You can't have the word 'fantasy' or 'fantastical' without a contrast. It has to stem from a grounded experience.

— Josh Trank

Realism has to be such high quality, you can't fake it. It's all hanging out there like the laundry.

— Nelson Shanks

One has got all the goodness, and the other all the appearance of it.

— Elizabeth Bennett

“For my present purpose I require a word which shall embrace both the Sub-Creative Art in itself, and a quality of strangeness and wonder…

— J.R.R. Tolkien